Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
Latest action · Sep 3, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 3, 2025
- Passed HouseSep 2, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
This bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that are involved in or have direct ties to prominent criminal gangs in Haiti.
Specifically, the Department of State must periodically report to Congress on the ties between criminal gangs and political and economic elites in Haiti. The report must list (1) prominent criminal gangs in Haiti and the leaders thereof, and (2) Haitian political and economic elites who have direct links to criminal gangs and any organizations or entities controlled by these individuals. The President must impose sanctions on listed individuals and entities.
Under the bill, the term economic elites means board members, officers, and executives of groups, corporations, or other entities that exert substantial influence or control over Haiti’s economy, infrastructure, or particular industries. Political elites means current and former government officials and their high-level staff and political party or committee leaders.
The bill also applies civil and criminal penalties to persons that violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of the regulations promulgated to carry out such sanctions.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 3, 2025 to Jul 10, 2025, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TX | Michael T. McCaul | Original | Apr 3, 2025 |
| D-FL | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick | Original | Apr 3, 2025 |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Apr 7, 2025 | |
| R-NY | Michael Lawler | Apr 7, 2025 | |
| D-FL | Jared Moskowitz | Apr 8, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Sydney Kamlager-Dove | Apr 8, 2025 | |
| D-MO | Wesley Bell | Apr 21, 2025 | |
| R-GA | Richard McCormick | Apr 29, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Laura Gillen | Jul 10, 2025 |
Actions 12
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 3, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Sep 2, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3731-3733)
- Sep 2, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2643.
- Sep 2, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 2, 2025Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Caribbean area
- Congressional oversight
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Foreign property
- Haiti
- International Affairs
- Organized crime
- Political parties and affiliation
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- Rule of law and government transparency
- Sanctions
- Visas and passports
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 3, 2025Referred in Senate
- Sep 2, 2025Engrossed in House
- Apr 3, 2025Introduced in House
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