S.Amdt. 4746

SA 4746. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 B of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1013. INTERAGENCY STRATEGY TO DISRUPT AND DISMANTLE
NARCOTICS PRODUCTION AND TRAFFICKING AND
AFFILIATED NETWORKS LINKED TO THE REGIME OF
BASHAR AL-ASSAD IN SYRIA.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the captagon trade linked to the regime of Bashar al-
Assad in Syria is a transnational security threat; and
(2) the United States should develop and implement an
interagency strategy to deny, degrade, and dismantle Assad-
linked narcotics production and trafficking networks.
(b) Report and Strategy Required.--Not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Defense, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the Director of National Intelligence, and
the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies shall jointly
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report
containing a strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics
production and trafficking and affiliated networks linked to
the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The strategy shall
include each of the following:
(1) A strategy to target, disrupt and degrade networks that
directly and indirectly support the narcotics infrastructure
of the Assad regime, particularly through diplomatic and
intelligence support to law enforcement investigations and to
build counter-narcotics capacity to partner countries through
assistance and training to law enforcement services in
countries, other than Syria, that are receiving or transiting
large quantities of Captagon.
(2) A description of the countries receiving or transiting
large shipments of Captagon and an assessment of the counter-
narcotics capacity of those countries to interdict or disrupt
the smuggling of Captagon, including an assessment of current
United States assistance and training programs to build such
capacity in those countries.
(3) The use of sanctions authorities, including the Caesar
Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (22 U.S.C. 8791 note),
and associated actions to target individuals and entities
directly or indirectly associated with the narcotics
infrastructure of the Assad regime.
(4) The use of global diplomatic engagements associated
with the economic pressure campaign against the Assad regime
to target its narcotics infrastructure.
(5) Leveraging multilateral institutions and cooperation
with international partners to disrupt the narcotics
infrastructure of the Assad regime.
(6) Mobilizing a public communications campaign to increase
awareness of the extent of the connection of the Assad regime
to illicit narcotics trade.
(c) Form of Report.--The report required under subsection
(b) shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may
contain a classified annex.
(d) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(1) the congressional defense committees;
(2) the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Financial Services [of
the House of Representatives]; and
(3) the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs of the Senate.
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