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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 1689 (Introduced in Senate) — To prioritize efforts of the Department of State to combat international trafficking in precursor chemicals and cover... · Sec. 7

Sec. 7. Authorization of appropriations

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There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State, for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2027, $100,000,000 for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement for Mexico. There is authorized to be appropriated to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2027, in addition to amounts otherwise made available for such purposes, $50,000,000, which shall be used— to interdict the outbound flow of smuggled firearms and illicit currency that facilitate the activities of transnational criminal organizations; and to increase the number of weapons and the amount of currency being seized from individuals attempting to smuggle such firearms and currency from the United States to Mexico.
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Homeland Security Investigations, for the period of fiscal years 2024 through 2027, $2,500,000, which shall be used to pay vetted members of a Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit in Mexico a monetary stipend in accordance with section 890C(d) of the Homeland Security Act of 2022 ( 6 U.S.C. 475(d) ), as added by the Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit Stipend Act (section 7105 of Public Law 117–263 ). None of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under subsection
(a)may be obligated or expended until the Secretary of State certifies and reports to Congress that the Government of Mexico is taking sustained and effective steps— to increase bilateral law enforcement cooperation with the United States to counter precursor chemicals and covered synthetic drugs, including steps— to identify laboratories of covered synthetic drugs and illicit production sites of those drugs; to identify routes used to transit precursor chemicals and covered synthetic drugs; to increase interdiction of precursor chemicals and covered synthetic drugs; to share samples of seized precursor chemicals and covered synthetic drugs; and to pursue prosecutions of transnational criminal organizations and illicit financing of those organizations; and to increase cooperation in multilateral fora to address precursor chemicals and covered synthetic drugs, including— the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs; the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Drug Dependence; the International Narcotics Control Board; and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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