Text of Senate Amendment 6478

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Record: Senate Floor
Section type: Amendments
Chamber: Senate
Date: June 24, 2026
Congress: 119th Congress
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People mentioned: Shaheen, Jeanne
Committees: Committee on Foreign Relations, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Appropriations

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SA 6478. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1270A. ADVANCING A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO ADDRESS

TRANSNATIONAL CRIME.

(a) Addressing Gaps in Law Enforcement and Anti-crime

Programs.—

(1) Strategic plan.—Not later than 180 days after the date

of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State

(referred to in

this section and section 1270B as the “Secretary”), acting

through the Assistant Secretary of State for International

Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (referred to in this

section and section 1270B as the “Assistant Secretary”),

shall develop and implement a strategic plan for the Bureau

of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

(referred to in this section and section 1270B as the

“Bureau”) to expand anti-crime programming related to

citizen security and the rule of law, crime and violence

prevention, and other efforts to address systemic and

structural drivers of transnational crime for an initial 5-

year period.

(2) Scope.—Programs identified pursuant to paragraph (1)

—

(A) shall include types of anti-crime programs

traditionally done by other bureaus within the Department of

State; and

(B) may include—

(i) community-level crime and violence prevention programs;

(ii) alternative development programs;

(iii) land titling programs; and

(iv) anti-corruption and good governance programs.

(3) Stakeholder engagement.—In developing the strategic

plan under paragraph (1), and before implementing such plan

and submitting the report required under paragraph (5), the

Secretary shall—

(A) consult with, and incorporate suggestions from,

security, law enforcement, and justice institutions of

partner governments, relevant multilateral and

intergovernmental entities, and relevant private sector

entities, to the maximum extent practicable;

(B) consult with, and incorporate suggestions from, the

appropriate congressional committees, to the maximum extent

practicable;

resource and program gaps in anti-crime efforts following the

foreign assistance review directed by the President through

Executive Order 14169 (90 Fed. Reg. 8619 (January 20, 2025)

relating to reevaluating and realigning United States foreign

aid); and

(D) request a list of gaps and opportunities in programming

described in paragraphs (1) and (2) from the chief of mission

of the United States embassies in all countries that receive

assistance under chapter 8 of part I of the Foreign

Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291 et seq.).

(4) Prioritization.—The Secretary, acting through the

Assistant Secretary, should prioritize the use of funds

appropriated to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign

Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346 et seq.) for programs

and activities identified under this subsection when

International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement funding

is not available for such purpose.

(5) Report.—The Secretary, acting through the Assistant

Secretary, shall include, in the first report submitted after

the date of the enactment of this Act, a section containing—

(A) the strategic plan required under paragraph (1),

including—

(i) a description of the initial proposed list of new anti-

crime programs for the Bureau to undertake;

(ii) the identification of an initial list of priority

countries for receiving such programming, which shall, to the

maximum extent practicable, include countries across all the

geographic regions in which the Bureau operates; and

(iii) a description of any constraints or challenges to the

Bureau undertaking such programming;

(B) a timeline for implementing the strategic plan; and

plan and programming during the next 5 fiscal years.

(6) Authorization of appropriations.—There is authorized

to be appropriated $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years

2027 through 2031 to implement this subsection.

(b) Public-private Partnerships.—

(1) Authorization.—The Secretary, acting through the

Assistant Secretary, and in coordination with the heads of

relevant Federal departments and agencies, is authorized and

encouraged to pursue public-private partnerships, other

research partnerships, and innovative financing mechanisms—

(A) to strengthen citizen security;

(B) to counter transnational crime; and

participation in illicit markets that affect United States

national interests, including through initiatives at the

community level.

(2) Priority focus areas.—Partnerships authorized under

paragraph (1) shall prioritize, during the 5-year period

beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, efforts

to address—

(A) cyber-scam centers;

(B) demand reduction matters relating to the illicit use of

narcotics and other drugs, particularly fentanyl and other

synthetic opioids, including monitoring and data collection

regarding use of such illicit drugs;

(D) sexual and gender-based violence;

(E) alternatives to illicit drug cultivation;

(F) anti-money laundering;

(G) community-based crime and violence deterrence and

prevention;

(H) rule of law, transparency, and anti-corruption; and

(I) environmental and natural resource crimes.

(3) Consultation.—In expanding the Department of State's

public-private partnerships and other multi-stakeholder

initiatives in the areas described in paragraph (1), the

Assistant Secretary shall engage with the United Nations

Office on Drugs and Crime and other entities with experience

undertaking public-private partnerships related to law

enforcement and anti-crime issues.

(4) Capacity building and information sharing.—The

Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, and in

coordination with the heads of relevant Federal departments

and agencies, shall collaborate with relevant stakeholders,

including law enforcement agencies and other related

institutions of partner governments, the private sector, and

civil society—

(A) to convene capacity building and training sessions,

events, and other forums to explore opportunities for public-

private partnerships related to the activities described in

paragraph (1) in each geographic region in which the Bureau

operates; and

(B) to encourage information sharing on best practices to

address such activities.

(5) Limitations.—Any public-private partnership entered

into pursuant to this subsection shall comply with—

(A) international best practices on public-private

partnerships; and

(B) additional guidelines and standards for best practices

set by the Secretary of State, including those within section

970 of volume 2 of the Foreign Affairs Manual.

(6) Notification and briefing.—Before entering into a

public-private partnership under this subsection, the

Assistant Secretary shall notify and brief the Committee on

Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign

Affairs of the House of Representatives regarding the

activities to be undertaken under such partnership and how

partner entities will be selected.

with respect to the authority of the President under section

481(a)(4) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.

2291(a)(4)), shall be construed to allow for the provision of

assistance, including through grants to nongovernmental

organizations, for efforts—

(1) to advance citizen security and the rule of law;

(2) to strengthen the capacity, accountability, and reform

of foreign security, law enforcement, and justice

institutions, including police, prosecutors and judges,

correctional facilities, border and customs enforcement

authorities, anti-corruption institutions, and other related

entities;

(3) to prevent, reduce, or deter transnational crime; and

(4) to otherwise address the drivers and impacts of illicit

activity, including systemic and structural drivers of

violence, affecting United States national interests,

including through programs that—

(A) prevent community violence and crime;

(B) provide alternatives to drug cultivation and production

or other illicit activities;

organizations;

(D) reduce impunity and strengthen anti-corruption and good

governance frameworks;

(E) increase government presence and access to justice in

conflict-affected areas;

(F) prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based

violence; and

(G) address illicit arms trafficking.

(d) Modification of Assistant Secretary's Areas of

Responsibility.—Section 1(c)(3)(B) of the State Department

Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a(c)(3)(B)) is

amended—

(1) in clause (ii), by inserting “law enforcement and”

after “foreign”;

(2) in clause (iv), by striking “human rights and women's

participation issues” and inserting “human rights, women's,

afrodescendents', indigenous people's, and other excluded

communities' participation issues, and international

humanitarian law, as applicable”;

(3) in clause (v), by striking “wildlife, and cultural

property, migrant smuggling, corruption, money laundering,

the illicit smuggling of bulk cash, the licit use of

financial systems for malign purposes,” and inserting

“wildlife, timber, metals and minerals, and cultural

property, migrant smuggling, corruption, money laundering,

the illicit smuggling of bulk cash, the licit use of

financial systems for malign purposes, cybercrime,”; and

(4) by adding at the end the following:

“(vii) Combating, in conjunction with other relevant

bureaus of the Department of State and other United States

Government agencies, environmental and natural resource

crimes, including illegal mining, fishing, and logging and

associated illicit trade.”.

(e) Amendments to Chapter 8 of Part I of the Foreign

Assistance Act of 1961.—Chapter 8 of part I of the Foreign

Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291 et seq.) is amended—

(1) by amending the chapter header to read as follows:

“INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND

RELATED ANTICRIME MATTER”; and

(2) in section 481(a)(1)—

(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (G) as

subparagraphs (B) through (H), respectively;

(B) by inserting before subparagraph (B), as redesignated,

the following:

“(A) It is the policy of the United States—

“(i) to assist foreign countries in preventing and

combating all forms of

transnational criminal activity that threaten regional

stability and undermine United States national security

interests, including—

“(I) illicit narcotics production and trafficking;

“(II) arms trafficking;

“(III) illicit finance and money laundering;

“(IV) trafficking in persons;

“(V) sexual and gender-based violence;

“(VI) migrant smuggling;

“(VII) cybercrime;

“(VIII) environmental and natural resource crime;

“(IX) corruption; and

“(X) and other related conditions that enable the

activities described in subclauses (I) through (IX); and

“(ii) to use United States assistance under this chapter

to support efforts to strengthen civilian law enforcement,

justice sector institutions, corrections systems, border and

customs authorities, anti-corruption institutions, and

international cooperation mechanisms to prevent, investigate,

prosecute, and adjudicate crimes associated with

transnational criminal activity and associated criminal

networks.”;

end the following: “Transnational criminal organizations

engaged in international narcotics trafficking have expanded

their activities to other illicit markets, including human

trafficking, smuggling, and environmental and natural

resource crimes, which requires the United States to modify

its foreign policies and programs to effectively counter

international narcotics trafficking and associated criminal

networks.”;

(D) in subparagraph (E), as redesignated, by striking

“particularly” and inserting “including”; and

(E) in subparagraph (G), as redesignated, by inserting “,

environmental and natural resource crimes, and other

transnational crime-related” after “narcotics”.

SEC. 1270B. STRENGTHENING DEPARTMENT OF STATE REPORTING OF

TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.

(a) Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement

Affairs Strategy.—

(1) In general.—Not later than 180 days after the

Secretary of State makes publicly available the strategic

plan required under section 306 of title 5, United States

Code, the Secretary shall—

(A) develop a strategic plan for the Bureau containing—

(i) all the information required under subsection (a) of

such section 306; and

(ii) a separate section evaluating foreign assistance and

programming carried out by the Bureau since the submission of

the previous Bureau strategy and the future direction of such

assistance and programming;

(B) make such strategic plan available on a publicly

accessible website of the Department of State; and

Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs

of the House of Representatives of the availability of such

strategic plan.

(2) Contingency plan.—If the strategic plan for the Bureau

is not made publicly available in accordance with paragraph

(1)(B) before the date of the enactment of this Act, the

Secretary shall comply with such paragraph not later than 180

days after such date of enactment.

(b) Elements.—The strategic plan for the Bureau required

under subsection (a) shall, with respect to each geographic

region in which the Bureau operates—

(1) provide a detailed assessment of—

(A) the transnational criminal and citizen security threats

to United States national interests within such region;

(B) how such threats have changed since the submission of

the previous Bureau strategy; and

programming by the Bureau are designed—

(i) to promote citizen security;

(ii) to disrupt transnational criminal organizations and

their illicit economies; and

(iii) to strengthen the capacity of foreign partners to

counter such threats;

(2) identify priority gaps and strategic opportunities for

strengthening foreign assistance and programming carried out

by the Bureau;

(3) assess outcome metrics from monitoring and evaluation

conducted since the submission of the previous Bureau

strategic plan, and provide concrete plans to ensure such

outcome assessments inform the foreign assistance program

design and funding decisions of the Bureau;

(4) describe in detail the Bureau's plans for addressing—

(A) narcotics trafficking, including the trafficking of

fentanyl and other synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals;

(B) environmental and natural resource crimes, including

illegal logging, wildlife trafficking, illegal mining, and

illegal fishing;

(D) ransom kidnapping and extortion;

(E) arms trafficking;

(F) money laundering;

(G) rule of law and corruption issues;

(H) drug demand reduction;

(I) cyber crime and intellectual property rights;

(J) capacity challenges faced by law enforcement, border

security, and criminal justice institutions in partner

countries, including civilian police and correctional

facilities; and

(K) sexual and gender-based violence;

(5) identify concrete ways in which the Department of State

has used the findings of the International Narcotics Control

Strategy Reports submitted pursuant to section 489 of the

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291h) since the

submission of the Bureau' s previous strategic plan to inform

foreign assistance program design and funding decisions by

the Bureau;

(6) identify concrete ways in which the Department has used

the findings regarding foreign countries' progress on anti-

corruption efforts referred to in subsections (a) through (c)

of section 5403 of the Combating Global Corruption Act

(subtitle A of title LIV of Public Law 118-31; 22 U.S.C.

10502) that have been provided to Congress since the

submission of the Bureau's previous strategic plan to inform

foreign assistance program design and funding decisions by

the Bureau;

(7) provide concrete examples of progress made in

significantly increasing the recruitment, training and

retention of women and other underrepresented communities in

law enforcement positions;

(8) identify concrete ways in which the Bureau, in

coordination with all other relevant Federal entities, can

more effectively target drivers of organized criminal

activity and recruitment at the community level, including

through Bureau programs—

(A) to deter crime and violence;

(B) to support crop substitution and alternatives to

illicit drug cultivation; and

programming;

(9) describe how foreign assistance and programming carried

out by the Bureau may be used to counter malign foreign

influence, including from the People's Republic of China and

the Russian Federation;

(10)(A) identify and evaluate outcome metrics to assess the

operations and effectiveness of the Bureau's International

Law Enforcement Academies since the submission of the

Bureau's previous strategic plan; and

(B) describe how such results will inform future program

design and funding decisions for such Academies;

(11)(A) identify and evaluate outcome metrics to assess the

operations and effectiveness of the Bureau's Narcotics

Rewards Program and Transnational Organized Crime Rewards

Programs since the submission of the Bureau's previous

strategic plan; and

(B) describe how such results will inform future program

design and funding decisions for such rewards programs; and

(12) identify concrete ways to strengthen multilateral and

donor coordination to enhance the delivery and efficiency of

assistance by the Bureau.

(1) In general.—Not later than 180 days after the date of

the enactment of this Act, and not later than the first

Monday of March of each year thereafter, the Secretary,

acting through the Assistant Secretary, shall submit a

program and budget accountability report for the Bureau for

the preceding fiscal year to the Committee on Foreign

Relations of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of

the House of Representatives, the Committee on Appropriations

of the Senate, and the Committee on Appropriations of the

House of Representatives.

(2) Requirements.—Each report submitted pursuant to

paragraph (1) shall, with respect to the preceding fiscal

year—

(A) provide a breakdown, by geographic region, of countries

that received funding from the INCLE account, disaggregated

by amount, fiscal year, and program type;

(B) identify all programming conducted through interagency

agreements described in section 632(b) of the Foreign

Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2392(b)), disaggregated by

geographic region and implementing agency and, for such

programming—

(i) identify each recipient of such support;

(ii) describe the support provided and the anticipated

duration of such support; and

(iii) describe the sources and amounts of funds used to

provide such support;

provided through interagency agreements described in section

632(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.

2392(b)), disaggregated by geographic region and implementing

agency;

(D) identify, globally and by geographic region, to the

maximum extent practicable, how much assistance from the

INCLE account was obligated for addressing—

(i) narcotics trafficking, including a specific amount for

addressing trafficking of fentanyl, synthetic opioids and

related precursor chemicals;

(ii) environmental and natural resource crimes,

disaggregated by illegal logging, wildlife trafficking,

illegal mining, and illegal fishing;

(iii) human trafficking and migrant smuggling;

(iv) arms trafficking;

(v) money laundering;

(vi) rule of law and corruption issues;

(vii) drug demand reduction;

(viii) cyber crime and intellectual property rights; and

(ix) sexual and gender-based violence;

(E) identify, globally and by geographic region, how much

assistance from the INCLE account was directly provided to—

(i) foreign government institutions;

(ii) intergovernmental or multilateral organizations;

(iii) locally-based nongovernmental organizations;

(iv) United States-based nongovernmental organizations;

(v) security or military contractors; and

(vi) any other implementing entity;

(F) list the amount of—

(i) law enforcement, criminal justice, border security, and

other foreign personnel trained through funding from the

INCLE account, disaggregated by geographic region, and the

types of trainings they received, with a separate section on

personnel trained by the International Law Enforcement

Academies;

(ii) lethal and non-lethal equipment provided to foreign

governments, disaggregated by geographic region and type of

equipment provided; and

(iii) previously existing and newly created United States-

vetted units in countries in which the Bureau operates;

(G) identify any foreign assistance and programming

provided by the Bureau that is carried out at the subnational

level, disaggregated by geographic region;

(H) identify any end-use monitoring or human rights

monitoring issues that arose regarding foreign assistance and

programming provided by the Bureau, disaggregated by

geographic region, and how such issues were resolved;

(I) identify any provisions of law that were waived or

superseded by the Bureau pursuant to the section 481(a)(4) of

the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291(a)(4)) and

provide justification for each such action;

(J) with respect to the Narcotics Rewards Program and the

Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program—

(i) identify previously existing outstanding rewards and

newly issued rewards, disaggregated by geographic region of

the designated target and by relevant criminal activity; and

(ii) identify—

(I) how many and which rewards led to the conviction or

arrest of designated targets; and

(II) how much money was paid out to reward program

participants;

(K) identify and describe any public-private partnership

programming carried out by the Bureau, disaggregated by

geographic region;

(L) disclose all private military and security contractors

with which the Bureau collaborates, disaggregated by

geographic region;

(M) identify and describe the Bureau priorities for

programs for which independent evaluations will be carried

out during the upcoming fiscal year, including the reasons

for their selection;

(N)(i) summarize major takeaways and recommendations from

program management and evaluation activities; and

(ii) describe, to the maximum extent practicable, how such

results will inform program design and funding decisions by

the Bureau for the upcoming fiscal year;

(O) identify—

(i) the 5 countries in each geographic region that received

the highest amount of foreign assistance and programming from

the Bureau; and

(ii) any other country, irrespective of geographic region,

that received more than $10,000,000 in such assistance and

programming; and

(P) for each country identified pursuant to subparagraph

(O)—

(i) provide a country narrative that describes the major

citizen security and transnational criminal challenges faced

by such country;

(ii) assess—

(I) the political will of the government of such country to

work with the United States to address such threats;

(II) such government's absorptive capacity; and

(III) other capacity building challenges faced by such

government across law enforcement, criminal justice, and

border security sectors;

(iii) identify the potential fraud risk, end use

monitoring, and human rights-related challenges for the

Bureau related to operating in such country;

(iv) identify all programs operated by the Bureau and, for

each such program—

(I) provide an overview and details of program activity,

operationalizable program goals and objectives, and outcome-

based and results-oriented performance indicators and metrics

for evaluating the effectiveness of such programs; and

(II) assess the progress being made to achieve program

goals and objectives and any challenges affecting such

achievement; and

(v) identify—

(I) any concrete assistance requested by the government of

such country related to the Bureau's mission; and

(II) the Bureau's assessment of the challenges to, and

merit of, providing such assistance.

(3) Form and public availability of report.—

(A) Form.—Each report required under paragraph (1) shall

be submitted in unclassified form to the Committee on Foreign

Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs

of the House of Representatives, but may include a classified

annex to the extent necessary to protect sensitive

information if an explanation is provided for why such

information is required to be classified.

(B) Public availability.—The Secretary shall make the

unclassified portions of each such report available to the

public on a website of the Department of State.

(d) Implementation.—The Secretary, acting through the

Assistant Secretary, shall promulgate and implement any

polices, guidance, or procedures within the Bureau that may

be necessary to comprehensively and accurately track,

compile, and report the data required to be included in the

report under subsection (c)(2).

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