Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Brazilian Amazon Act

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Introduced 2025-07-31Topic: criminal justice · environment · economy jobs

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This bill sets out steps for U.S. agencies related to crime and investment in the Brazilian Amazon. It encourages the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to consider placing a staff member in Brazil to find economic opportunities and investment risks, and it requires that agency to report to Congress within 180 days. It allows the State Department to help Brazil disrupt criminal networks tied to illegal logging, mining, fishing, and wildlife trade through training, information sharing, and tracing criminal funds. It also says the State Department should give financial and technical help to local communities, and it requires several reports, including one on goods entering the U.S. market and China's role in Amazon deforestation. Finally, it says the Treasury should direct U.S. representatives at the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and International Monetary Fund to oppose loans that would add to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2026-07-27	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 498.
2026-07-27	Senate	Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.	refer
2026-07-27		Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.	report
2026-06-17	Senate	Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.	refer
2025-07-31	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.	refer
2025-07-31		Introduced in Senate	introduce

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