Transparency to Rehabilitate United States Treaties with Mexico Act of 2021 or the TRUST with Mexico Act of 2021
This bill requires the Department of State to report on any nonconsensual use by Mexico of information or evidence obtained under the U.S.-Mexico Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty for purposes not stated in the request for such information or evidence.
This report must encompass any such actions taken by Mexico on or after January 1, 2020, and it must include descriptions of (1) the action taken and its effect on U.S. national security, and (2) the assets and estimated net worth of Division General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda.
To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress 
describing certain violations by Mexican authorities of the U.S.-Mexico 
        Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, 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 TITLES.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transparency to Rehabilitate United 
States Treaties with Mexico Act of 2021'' or the ``TRUST with Mexico 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
                Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
                of Representatives.
            (2) U.S.-mexico mutual legal assistance treaty.--The term 
        ``U.S.-Mexico Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty'' means the Treaty 
        on Cooperation for Mutual Legal Assistance, done at Mexico City 
        December 9, 1987, and entered into force May 3, 1991 (TIAS 91-
        503).

SEC. 3. REPORT ON ACTIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO IN VIOLATION OF 
              THE U.S.-MEXICO MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE TREATY.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to 
the appropriate congressional committees that describes any actions 
taken by the Government of Mexico, on or after January 1, 2020, that 
contravene paragraph (1) of Article 6 of the U.S.-Mexico Mutual Legal 
Assistance Treaty.
    (b) Contents.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
include--
            (1) for every action identified in such report, a 
        description of--
                    (A) the action taken;
                    (B) the government agency or agencies responsible 
                for such action;
                    (C) a description of the action's effect on the 
                joint counternarcotics efforts of the United States and 
                Mexico; and
                    (D) a description of the action's effect on the 
                national security of the United States; and
            (2) a description of the assets of Division General 
        Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, including a description of--
                    (A) his estimated net worth;
                    (B) the estimated net worth of his immediate family 
                members; and
                    (C) all of his real, personal, and intellectual 
                property, bank or investment or similar accounts, and 
                any other financial or business interests or holdings, 
                including those outside of Mexico, whether obtained 
                legitimately or illegitimately.
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Transparency to Rehabilitate United States Treaties with Mexico Act of 2021
A bill to require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress describing certain violations by Mexican authorities of the U.S.-Mexico Legal Assistance Treaty, and for other purposes.
TRUST with Mexico Act of 2021
Transparency to Rehabilitate United States Treaties with Mexico Act of 2021
Sen. Cruz, Ted