Eliminate PRC Organized Crime Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Eliminate PRC Organized Crime Act authorizes, but does not require, the State Department to create a capacity-building program for law-enforcement agencies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Assistance may support consultations, financial-crime training, asset forfeiture, digital forensics, intercept coordination, intelligence, and vetting against compromise by PRC-linked criminal groups involved in narcotics, money laundering, illicit finance, transnational repression, human trafficking, illegal fishing, and foreign interference. The program may operate despite the general foreign police-aid restriction. A country failing counternarcotics obligations may still receive aid after a national-interest determination and 15-day congressional notice. Within one year, DNI and State must report on aid, outcomes, criminal activity, PRC policing agreements, cross-regional patterns, PRC assistance, and legal-assistance requests.
Who Benefits and How
Eligible Latin American and Caribbean law-enforcement agencies gain training, investigative tools, intelligence support, and vetting capacity. Communities harmed by narcotics, trafficking, illegal fishing, laundering, and repression may gain stronger investigations. U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence agencies gain regional partners and threat reporting. Congress gains detailed oversight data.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State Department staff must design and monitor any assistance, coordinate with Justice and intelligence officials, vet recipients, and notify Congress of national-interest exceptions. DNI and State must produce the one-year report. Recipient agencies must undergo screening, while PRC-linked criminal organizations face increased investigation, prosecution, forfeiture, and disruption risk.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes law-enforcement capacity assistance despite the general foreign police-aid restriction.
- Provides training, technical assistance, intelligence coordination, and recipient vetting.
- Requires a national-interest finding and 15-day notice for counternarcotics-noncompliant recipients.
- Requires a one-year, primarily unclassified report on assistance, threats, PRC policing ties, and cross-regional patterns.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Authorizes foreign-assistance support for Latin American and Caribbean law enforcement efforts against PRC-linked transnational criminal organizations and requires intelligence reporting.
Key Policy Areas
Foreign Assistance, Transnational Crime, China Policy
Primary Purpose
Authorizes foreign-assistance support for Latin American and Caribbean law enforcement efforts against PRC-linked transnational criminal organizations and requires intelligence reporting.
Policy Domains
Eliminate PRC Organized Crime Act
Identified Gains
- Latin American law-enforcement agencies
- Caribbean law-enforcement agencies
- Communities harmed by transnational crime
- United States law-enforcement agencies
- Congressional oversight committees
Identified Costs
- State Department assistance staff
- Department of Justice coordinators
- Intelligence Community analysts
- Recipient-agency vetting offices
- PRC-linked transnational criminal organizations
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedPlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. …
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an …
Reported by Mr. Risch, with an amendment and an amendment …
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Cornyn (for himself and Mr. Coons) introduced the following …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Caribbean law-enforcement agencies, Congressional oversight committees, Department of Justice coordinators
Positive-direction: Caribbean law-enforcement agencies, Congressional oversight committees, Latin American law-enforcement agencies
Negative-direction: Department of Justice coordinators, Intelligence Community analysts, State Department assistance staff
China-linked transnational crime operators, Communities harmed by transnational crime, Human-trafficking survivors
Positive-direction: Communities harmed by transnational crime, Human-trafficking survivors
Negative-direction: China-linked transnational crime operators, PRC-linked transnational crime operators
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "targets"
- → PRC-linked transnational criminal organizations
- "recipients"
- → Latin American and Caribbean law-enforcement agencies
- "coordination"
- → Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence
- "program_lead"
- → Secretary of State
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