Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025

(a) Short title This section may be cited as the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025. (b) Report Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for five years, the Secretary, in coordination with the heads of other Federal departments and agencies as appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report regarding the ties between criminal gangs and political and economic elites in Haiti. (c) Matters To be included The report required by subsection (b) shall— (1) identify and list prominent criminal gangs in Haiti as well as the leaders thereof, and describe their criminal activities including coercive recruitment, and identify their primary geographic areas of operations; (2) list Haitian political and economic elites who have direct links to criminal gangs and any organizations or entities controlled by these elites; (3) describe in detail the relationship between the individuals listed pursuant to paragraph (2) and the criminal gangs identified pursuant to paragraph (1); (4) describe in detail how Haitian political and economic elites use their relationships with criminal gangs to advance their political and economic interests and agenda; (5) include a list of each criminal organization assessed to be trafficking Haitians and other individuals to the United States border; (6) include an assessment of ties between political and economic elites, criminal gangs in Haiti, and transnational criminal organizations; (7) include an assessment of how the nature and extent of collusion between political and economic elites and criminal gangs threatens the Haitian people and United States national interests and activities in the country; and (8) include an assessment of potential actions that the Government of the United States could take to address the findings made pursuant to paragraph (6). (d) Form The report required by subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. (e) Definitions In this section— (1) the term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; (C) the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; (D) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; (E) the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; (F) the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; (G) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and (H) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; (2) the term economic elites means board members, officers, and executives of groups, committees, corporations, or other entities that exert substantial influence or control over Haiti’s economy, infrastructure, or particular industries; and (3) the term political elites means current and former government officials and their high-level staff, political party leaders, and political committee leaders. (f) Sunset The authorities provided by this section shall cease to have effect beginning on the date that is five years after the date of the enactment of this Act.