H.R. 2633 · 118th Congress · International Affairs

Terrorist Organization Classification Act of 2023

Died in committee482 words Introduced Apr 17, 2023 · Latest action Apr 17, 2023

How far it has goneStopped at 2 of 6 · Died in committee
  1. IntroducedApr 17, 2023 Done
  2. CommitteeDied Jan 3, 2025 Stopped here
  3. House floorNot yet Not reached yet
  4. Senate floorNot yet Not reached yet
  5. Chambers agreeNot yet Not reached yet
  6. PresidentNot yet Not reached yet

What it does

This bill directs the Department of State to designate five specified drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. (Among other things, such a designation allows the Department of the Treasury to require financial institutions to block transactions involving the organization.)

The five specified cartels in the bill are MS-13, Queen Nation, Sinaloa, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, and Beltran Leyva Organization.

The bill also requires the State Department to submit a detailed report on those five cartels and any other cartels it may identify. Based on this report, the State Department must designate as a foreign terrorist organization any such identified cartel (or faction thereof) that meets certain criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization.

The bill specifies that it may not be construed to expand eligibility for asylum.

Congressional Research Service · summary of “Introduced in House” version · Apr 17, 2023

Who lobbies on it

No lobbying filing on file names H.R. 2633.

Organizations that named H.R. 2633 in a quarterly lobbying report. Covers organizations with a PAC on file; reports from organizations without one aren’t loaded yet. Spend is the organization’s total across all issues: reports don’t split spending by bill. Source: Senate lobbying disclosures (LD-2) from lda.gov; quotes are word for word from the “specific lobbying issues” field.

Actions

2 actions · newest first
  1. Apr 17, 2023Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
  2. Apr 17, 2023Introduced in House