Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
Introduced Apr 3, 2025 by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Sep 3, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Sep 2, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 2, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3731-3732)
- Sep 2, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Sep 2, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2643.
- Sep 2, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3731-3733)
- Sep 2, 2025Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Apr 9, 2025Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- Apr 9, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 3, 2025Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Apr 3, 2025Introduced in House