No Hezbollah In Our Hemisphere Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3315 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3315 To counter efforts by Hezbollah to conduct terrorist activities in Latin America, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 8, 2025 Mr. Wilson of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Panetta) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To counter efforts by Hezbollah to conduct terrorist activities in Latin America, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``No Hezbollah In Our Hemisphere Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Iran and Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, have been allowed to build their Latin American regional networks with impunity. (2) Hezbollah is not considered a terrorist organization in most countries south of the Rio Grande River. (3) In Latin America, the only countries that have designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization are Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Paraguay. (4) The ability of local authorities to monitor or prosecute Hezbollah and its local operatives is limited without such a designation. (5) Hezbollah has support from local authoritarian regimes aligned with the Islamic Republic of Iran, such as the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela, which has essentially become Iran's forward operating base in Latin America. (6) Hezbollah's infrastructure in the Western Hemisphere cont