union calendar no. 426 th d congress session h. r. 5602
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Union Calendar No. 426 116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 5602 [Report No. 116–526, Part I]
To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department
of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity
and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic
terrorism.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 14, 2020
Mr. SCHNEIDER (for himself, Mr. NADLER, Ms. BASS, Ms. KELLY of Illinois,
Mr. GONZALEZ of Texas, Mr. CORREA, Mr. CISNEROS, Mr. COOPER, Mr.
PANETTA, Ms. NORTON, Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire, Mr. CASE, Ms.
MENG, Ms. KENDRA S. HORN of Oklahoma, Mr. MALINOWSKI, and Miss
RICE of New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on
Homeland Security, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Additional sponsors: Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. FRANKEL, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. STE-
VENS, Mr. BRINDISI, Mr. DEUTCH, Ms. SHALALA, Mr. CASTEN of Illi-
nois, Ms. ESCOBAR, Ms. WILD, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. SWALWELL of Cali-
fornia, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. HUFFMAN,
Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. KILMER, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. ROUDA, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr.
THOMPSON of California, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. TORRES SMALL of New
Mexico, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. TRONE, Ms. SLOTKIN, Mr. RASKIN, Ms.
MUCARSEL-POWELL, Ms. DEAN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. COHEN, Mr.
HECK, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. CROW, Mr. NEGUSE, Mrs.
LURIA, Mr. POCAN, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. LAMB, Mr. STANTON, Ms. GAR-
CIA of Texas, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. PAYNE, Mrs.
BUSTOS, Mr. HIMES, Mr. SOTO, Mr. PETERS, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. JUDY
CHU of California, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. PERLMUTTER,
Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mrs. MURPHY
of Florida, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr.
PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. RUSH, Ms. LEE of California, Mr.
ESPAILLAT, Mr. CARBAJAL, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. GALLEGO,
Mr. VELA, Mr. O’HALLERAN, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. CASTRO of
Texas, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. VELAZQUEZ, Mr. KHANNA, Mr.
SUOZZI, Ms. HAALAND, Mrs. DEMINGS, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr.
CARDENAS, Mr. GOLDEN, Ms. SCHRIER, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms.
WEXTON, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr.
KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. PASCRELL, Mrs. HAYES, Ms.
CLARKE of New York, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mr. KIM, Mr. BLU-
MENAUER, Mr. COX of California, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Mrs.
CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr.
KENNEDY, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. PHILLIPS, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. CRIST,
Mrs. AXNE, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Ms.
BARRAGAN, Mr. ROSE of New York, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. MICHAEL F.
DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. TONKO, Mr. LUJAN, Mr. KIND, Mr. RYAN,
Mr. PALLONE, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. TAKANO,
Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. HOULAHAN, Mr. BERA, Mr. WELCH, Mr. DAVID
SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. TITUS, Ms. MOORE, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr.
GOTTHEIMER, Mr. MCADAMS, Ms. SANCHEZ, Mr. MCEACHIN, Ms. CAS-
TOR of Florida, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr.
LIPINSKI, Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. KILDEE, Mr.
NORCROSS, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr.
LANGEVIN, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. KEATING, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Mrs.
TRAHAN, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr.
SIRES, Ms. PORTER, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mr. LEVIN
of California, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Ms. ROY-
BAL-ALLARD, Mrs. TORRES of California, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. SCHA-
KOWSKY, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, and Ms. ESHOO
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Committees on Homeland Security and Armed Services discharged; committed
to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and or-
dered to be printed
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 14, 2020]
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A BILL To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the
Department of Homeland Security, the Department of
Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ana-
lyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require
the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domes-
tic terrorism.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Domestic Terrorism Pre-4
vention Act of 2020’’. 5
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 6
Congress finds the following: 7
(1) Recent reports have demonstrated that White 8
supremacists and other far-right-wing extremists are 9
the most significant domestic terrorism threat facing 10
the United States, including— 11
(A) a February 22, 2019, New York Times 12
op-ed, by a Trump Administration United 13
States Department of Justice official, who wrote 14
that ‘‘white supremacy and far-right extremism 15
are among the greatest domestic-security threats 16
facing the United States. Regrettably, over the 17
past 25 years, law enforcement, at both the Fed-18
eral and State levels, has been slow to respond. 19
. . . Killings committed by individuals and 20
groups associated with far-right extremist groups 21
have risen significantly.’’; 22
(B) an April 2017 Government Account-23
ability Office report on the significant, lethal 24
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threat posed by domestic violent extremists, 1
which— 2
(i) explained that ‘‘[s]ince September 3
12, 2001, the number of fatalities caused by 4
domestic violent extremists has ranged from 5
1 to 49 in a given year.’’; and 6
(ii) noted that ‘‘[F]atalities resulting 7
from attacks by far right wing violent ex-8
tremists have exceeded those caused by rad-9
ical Islamist violent extremists in 10 of the 10
15 years, and were the same in 3 of the 11
years since September 12, 2001. Of the 85 12
violent extremist incidents that resulted in 13
death since September 12, 2001, far right 14
wing violent extremist groups were respon-15
sible for 62 (73 percent) while radical 16
Islamist violent extremists were responsible 17
for 23 (27 percent).’’; and 18
(C) an unclassified May 2017 joint intel-19
ligence bulletin from the Federal Bureau of In-20
vestigation and the Department of Homeland Se-21
curity, which found that ‘‘white supremacist ex-22
tremism poses [a] persistent threat of lethal vio-23
lence,’’ and that White supremacists ‘‘were re-24
sponsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 25
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2000 to 2016 . . . more than any other domestic 1
extremist movement’’. 2
(2) Recent domestic terrorist attacks include— 3
(A) the August 5, 2012, mass shooting at a 4
Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 5
which a White supremacist shot and killed 6 6
members of the gurdwara; 7
(B) the April 13, 2014, mass shooting at a 8
Jewish community center and a Jewish assisted 9
living facility in Overland Park, Kansas, in 10
which a neo-Nazi shot and killed 3 civilians, in-11
cluding a 14-year-old teenager; 12
(C) the June 8, 2014, ambush in Las Vegas, 13
Nevada, in which 2 supporters of the far-right- 14
wing ‘‘patriot’’ movement shot and killed 2 po-15
lice officers and a civilian; 16
(D) the June 17, 2015, mass shooting at the 17
Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South 18
Carolina, in which a White supremacist shot 19
and killed 9 members of the church; 20
(E) the November 27, 2015, mass shooting 21
at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado 22
Springs, Colorado, in which an anti-abortion ex-23
tremist shot and killed a police officer and 2 ci-24
vilians; 25
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(F) the March 20, 2017, murder of an Afri-1
can-American man in New York City, allegedly 2
committed by a White supremacist who report-3
edly traveled to New York ‘‘for the purpose of 4
killing black men’’; 5
(G) the May 26, 2017, attack in Portland, 6
Oregon, in which a White supremacist allegedly 7
murdered 2 men and injured a third after the 8
men defended 2 young women whom the indi-9
vidual had targeted with anti-Muslim hate 10
speech; 11
(H) the August 12, 2017, attacks in Char-12
lottesville, Virginia, in which— 13
(i) a White supremacist killed one and 14
injured nineteen after driving his car 15
through a crowd of individuals protesting a 16
neo-Nazi rally, and of which former Attor-17
ney General Jeff Sessions said, ‘‘It does 18
meet the definition of domestic terrorism in 19
our statute.’’; and 20
(ii) a group of 6 men linked to militia 21
or White supremacist groups assaulted an 22
African-American man who had been pro-23
testing the neo-Nazi rally in a downtown 24
parking garage; 25
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(I) the July 2018 murder of an African- 1
American woman from Kansas City, Missouri, 2
allegedly committed by a White supremacist who 3
reportedly bragged about being a member of the 4
Ku Klux Klan; 5
(J) the October 24, 2018, shooting in 6
Jeffersontown, Kentucky, in which a White man 7
allegedly murdered 2 African Americans at a 8
grocery store after first attempting to enter a 9
church with a predominantly African-American 10
congregation during a service; 11
(K) the October 27, 2018, mass shooting at 12
the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn-13
sylvania, in which a White nationalist allegedly 14
shot and killed 11 members of the congregation; 15
(L) the April 27, 2019, shooting at the 16
Chabad of Poway synagogue in California, in 17
which a man yelling anti-Semitic slurs allegedly 18
killed a member of the congregation and wound-19
ed 3 others; 20
(M) the August 3, 2019, mass shooting at a 21
Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in which a White 22
supremacist with anti-immigrant views killed 22 23
people and injured 26 others; 24
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(N) the December 10, 2019, shooting at a 1
Kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, 2
in which 2 men with anti-Semitic views killed 3 3
people in the store and a law enforcement officer 4
in an earlier encounter; and 5
(O) the December 28, 2019, machete attack 6
at a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, New 7
York, in which a man who had expressed anti- 8
Semitic views stabbed 5 individuals. 9
(3) In November 2019, the Federal Bureau of In-10
vestigation released its annual hate crime incident re-11
port, which found that in 2018, violent hate crimes 12
reached a 16-year high. Though the overall number of 13
hate crimes decreased slightly after three consecutive 14
years of increases, the report found a 4-percent in-15
crease in aggravated assaults, a 15-percent increase 16
in simple assaults, and a 13-percent increase in in-17
timidation. There was also a nearly 6-percent in-18
crease in hate crimes directed at LGBTQ individuals 19
and a 14-percent increase in hate crimes directed at 20
Hispanic and Latino individuals. Nearly 60 percent 21
of the religion-based hate crimes reported targeted 22
American Jews and Jewish institutions. The previous 23
year’s report found that in 2017, hate crimes in-24
creased by approximately 17 percent, including a 23- 25
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percent increase in religion-based hate crimes, an 18- 1
percent increase in race-based crimes, and a 5-percent 2
increase in crimes directed against LGBTQ individ-3
uals. The report analyzing 2016 data found that hate 4
crimes increased by almost 5 percent that year, in-5
cluding a 19-percent rise in hate crimes against 6
American Muslims. Similarly, the report analyzing 7
2015 data found that hate crimes increased by 6 per-8
cent that year. Much of the 2015 increase came from 9
a 66-percent rise in attacks on American Muslims 10
and a 9-percent rise in attacks on American Jews. In 11
all 4 reports, race-based crimes were most numerous, 12
and those crimes most often targeted African Ameri-13
cans. 14
(4) On March 15, 2019, a White nationalist was 15
arrested and charged with murder after allegedly kill-16
ing 50 Muslim worshippers and injuring more than 17
40 in a massacre at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood 18
Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. The alleged 19
shooter posted a hate-filled, xenophobic manifesto that 20
detailed his White nationalist ideology before the mas-21
sacre. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern labeled the 22
massacre a terrorist attack. 23
(5) In January 2017, a right-wing extremist 24
who had expressed anti-Muslim views was charged 25
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with murder for allegedly killing 6 people and injur-1
ing 19 in a shooting rampage at a mosque in Quebec 2
City, Canada. It was the first-ever mass shooting at 3
a mosque in North America, and Prime Minister 4
Trudeau labeled it a terrorist attack. 5
(6) On February 15, 2019, Federal authorities 6
arrested U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Christopher 7
Paul Hasson, who was allegedly planning to kill a 8
number of prominent journalists, professors, judges, 9
and ‘‘leftists in general’’. In court filings, prosecutors 10
described Lieutenant Hasson as a ‘‘domestic terrorist’’ 11
who in an email ‘‘identified himself as a White Na-12
tionalist for over 30 years and advocated for ‘focused 13
violence’ in order to establish a white homeland.’’. 14
(7) On November 3rd, 2019 a 24 year old man 15
who authorities say was among masked Antifa sup-16
porters attacking conservatives at a June Demonstra-17
tion in Portland, Oregon, was sentenced Friday to 18
nearly six years in prison in connection with brutal 19
assault. Gage Halupowski pleaded guilty to second- 20
degree assault after authorities accused him of using 21
a weapon against a conservative demonstrator who 22
suffered blows to the head that the victim claims left 23
him with a concussion and cuts that required 25 sta-24
ples to close. 25
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(8) On December 12, 2019, an assailant involved 1
in the prolonged firefight in Jersey City, NJ, that left 2
six people dead, including one police officer, was 3
linked on Wednesday to the Black Hebrew Israelite 4
movement, and had public anti-Semitic posts online, 5
a law enforcement official said. 6
(9) On February 8, 2020, A gunman stormed a 7
NYPD precinct after firing at police van, wounding 8
2. The police commissioner called the Bronx rampage 9
an ‘‘assassination attempt,’’ on law enforcement. 10
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 11
In this Act— 12
(1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of the 13
Federal Bureau of Investigation; 14
(2) the term ‘‘domestic terrorism’’ has the mean-15
ing given the term in section 2331 of title 18, United 16
States Code, except that it does not include acts per-17
petrated by individuals associated with or inspired 18
by— 19
(A) a foreign person or organization des-20
ignated as a foreign terrorist organization under 21
section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality 22
Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); 23
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(B) an individual or organization des-1
ignated under Executive Order 13224 (50 U.S.C. 2
1701 note); or 3
(C) a state sponsor of terrorism as deter-4
mined by the Secretary of State under section 5
6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 6
(50 U.S.C. 4605), section 40 of the Arms Export 7
Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780), or section 620A of 8
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 9
2371); 10
(3) the term ‘‘Domestic Terrorism Executive 11
Committee’’ means the committee within the Depart-12
ment of Justice tasked with assessing and sharing in-13
formation about ongoing domestic terrorism threats; 14
(4) the term ‘‘hate crime incident’’ means an act 15
described in section 241, 245, 247, or 249 of title 18, 16
United States Code, or in section 901 of the Civil 17
Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3631); 18
(5) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of 19
Homeland Security; and 20
(6) the term ‘‘uniformed services’’ has the mean-21
ing given the term in section 101(a) of title 10, 22
United States Code. 23
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SEC. 4. OFFICES TO COMBAT DOMESTIC TERRORISM. 1
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF OFFICES TO MONITOR, ANA-2
LYZE, INVESTIGATE, AND PROSECUTE DOMESTIC TER-3
RORISM.— 4
(1) DOMESTIC TERRORISM UNIT.—There is au-5
thorized a Domestic Terrorism Unit in the Office of 6
Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Home-7
land Security, which shall be responsible for moni-8
toring and analyzing domestic terrorism activity. 9
(2) DOMESTIC TERRORISM OFFICE.—There is 10
authorized a Domestic Terrorism Office in the 11
Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Di-12
vision of the Department of Justice— 13
(A) which shall be responsible for inves-14
tigating and prosecuting incidents of domestic 15
terrorism; and 16
(B) which shall be headed by the Domestic 17
Terrorism Counsel. 18
(3) DOMESTIC TERRORISM SECTION OF THE 19
FBI.—There is authorized a Domestic Terrorism Sec-20
tion within the Counterterrorism Division of the Fed-21
eral Bureau of Investigation, which shall be respon-22
sible for investigating domestic terrorism activity. 23
(4) STAFFING.—The Secretary, the Attorney 24
General, and the Director shall each ensure that each 25
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office authorized under this section in their respective 1
agencies shall— 2
(A) have adequate number of employees to 3
perform the required duties; 4
(B) have not less than 1 employee dedicated 5
to ensuring compliance with civil rights and 6
civil liberties laws and regulations; and 7
(C) require that all employees undergo an-8
nual anti-bias training. 9
(5) SUNSET.—The offices authorized under this 10
subsection shall terminate on the date that is 10 years 11
after the date of enactment of this Act. 12
(b) JOINT REPORT ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM.— 13
(1) BIANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later 14
than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 15
and each 6 months thereafter for the 10-year period 16
beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the 17
Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney Gen-18
eral, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Inves-19
tigation shall submit a joint report authored by the 20
domestic terrorism offices authorized under para-21
graphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a) to— 22
(A) the Committee on the Judiciary, the 23
Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-24
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mental Affairs, and the Select Committee on In-1
telligence of the Senate; and 2
(B) the Committee on the Judiciary, the 3
Committee on Homeland Security, and the Per-4
manent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 5
House of Representatives. 6
(2) CONTENTS.—Each report submitted under 7
paragraph (1) shall include— 8
(A) an assessment of the domestic terrorism 9
threat posed by White supremacists and neo- 10
Nazis, including White supremacist and neo- 11
Nazi infiltration of Federal, State, and local law 12
enforcement agencies and the uniformed services; 13
and 14
(B)(i) in the first report, an analysis of in-15
cidents or attempted incidents of domestic ter-16
rorism that have occurred in the United States 17
since April 19, 1995, including any White-su-18
premacist-related incidents or attempted inci-19
dents; and 20
(ii) in each subsequent report, an analysis 21
of incidents or attempted incidents of domestic 22
terrorism that occurred in the United States dur-23
ing the preceding 6 months, including any 24
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White-supremacist-related incidents or attempted 1
incidents; and 2
(C) a quantitative analysis of domestic ter-3
rorism for the preceding 6 months, including— 4
(i) the number of— 5
(I) domestic terrorism related as-6
sessments initiated by the Federal Bu-7
reau of Investigation, including the 8
number of assessments from each clas-9
sification and subcategory, with a spe-10
cific classification or subcategory for 11
those related to White supremacism; 12
(II) domestic terrorism-related 13
preliminary investigations initiated by 14
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 15
including the number of preliminary 16
investigations from each classification 17
and subcategory, with a specific classi-18
fication or subcategory for those related 19
to White supremacism, and how many 20
preliminary investigations resulted 21
from assessments; 22
(III) domestic terrorism-related 23
full investigations initiated by the Fed-24
eral Bureau of Investigation, including 25
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the number of full investigations from 1
each classification and subcategory, 2
with a specific classification or sub-3
category for those related to White 4
supremacism, and how many full in-5
vestigations resulted from preliminary 6
investigations and assessments; 7
(IV) domestic terrorism-related 8
incidents, including the number of in-9
cidents from each classification and 10
subcategory, with a specific classifica-11
tion or subcategory for those related to 12
White supremacism, the number of 13
deaths and injuries resulting from each 14
incident, and a detailed explanation of 15
each incident; 16
(V) Federal domestic terrorism-re-17
lated arrests, including the number of 18
arrests from each classification and 19
subcategory, with a specific classifica-20
tion or subcategory for those related to 21
White supremacism, and a detailed ex-22
planation of each arrest; 23
(VI) Federal domestic terrorism- 24
related indictments, including the 25
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number of indictments from each clas-1
sification and subcategory, with a spe-2
cific classification or subcategory for 3
those related to White supremacism, 4
and a detailed explanation of each in-5
dictment; 6
(VII) Federal domestic terrorism- 7
related prosecutions, including the 8
number of incidents from each classi-9
fication and subcategory, with a spe-10
cific classification or subcategory for 11
those related to White supremacism, 12
and a detailed explanation of each 13
prosecution; 14
(VIII) Federal domestic terrorism- 15
related convictions, including the num-16
ber of convictions from each classifica-17
tion and subcategory, with a specific 18
classification or subcategory for those 19
related to White supremacism, and a 20
detailed explanation of each conviction; 21
and 22
(IX) Federal domestic terrorism- 23
related weapons recoveries, including 24
the number of each type of weapon and 25
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the number of weapons from each clas-1
sification and subcategory, with a spe-2
cific classification or subcategory for 3
those related to White supremacism; 4
and 5
(ii) an explanation of each individual 6
case that progressed through more than 1 of 7
the stages described under clause (i), includ-8
ing the specific classification or subcategory 9
for each case. 10
(3) HATE CRIMES.—In compiling a joint report 11
under this subsection, the domestic terrorism offices 12
authorized under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of sub-13
section (a) shall, in consultation with the Civil Rights 14
Division of the Department of Justice and the Civil 15
Rights Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 16
review each hate crime incident reported during the 17
preceding 6 months to determine whether the incident 18
also constitutes a domestic terrorism-related incident. 19
(4) CLASSIFICATION AND PUBLIC RELEASE.— 20
Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall 21
be— 22
(A) unclassified, to the greatest extent pos-23
sible, with a classified annex only if necessary; 24
and 25
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(B) in the case of the unclassified portion of 1
the report, posted on the public websites of the 2
Department of Homeland Security, the Depart-3
ment of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of In-4
vestigation. 5
(5) NONDUPLICATION.—If two or more provi-6
sions of this subsection or any other law impose re-7
quirements on an agency to report or analyze infor-8
mation on domestic terrorism that are substantially 9
similar, the agency shall construe such provisions as 10
mutually supplemental, so as to provide for the most 11
extensive reporting or analysis, and shall comply 12
with each such requirement as fully as possible. 13
(c) DOMESTIC TERRORISM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.— 14
There is authorized a Domestic Terrorism Executive Com-15
mittee, which shall— 16
(1) meet on a regular basis, and not less regu-17
larly than 4 times each year, to coordinate with 18
United States Attorneys and other key public safety 19
officials across the country to promote information 20
sharing and ensure an effective, responsive, and orga-21
nized joint effort to combat domestic terrorism; and 22
(2) be co-chaired by— 23
(A) the Domestic Terrorism Counsel author-24
ized under subsection (a)(2)(B); 25
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(B) a United States Attorney or Assistant 1
United States Attorney; 2
(C) a member of the National Security Di-3
vision of the Department of Justice; and 4
(D) a member of the Federal Bureau of In-5
vestigation. 6
(d) FOCUS ON GREATEST THREATS.—The domestic 7
terrorism offices authorized under paragraphs (1), (2), and 8
(3) of subsection (a) shall focus their limited resources on 9
the most significant domestic terrorism threats, as deter-10
mined by the number of domestic terrorism-related inci-11
dents from each category and subclassification in the joint 12
report for the preceding 6 months required under subsection 13
(b). 14
SEC. 5. TRAINING TO COMBAT DOMESTIC TERRORISM. 15
(a) REQUIRED TRAINING AND RESOURCES.—The Sec-16
retary, the Attorney General, and the Director shall review 17
the anti-terrorism training and resource programs of their 18
respective agencies that are provided to Federal, State, 19
local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies, including the 20
State and Local Anti-Terrorism Program that is funded by 21
the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Department of Jus-22
tice, and ensure that such programs include training and 23
resources to assist State, local, and Tribal law enforcement 24
agencies in understanding, detecting, deterring, and inves-25
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tigating acts of domestic terrorism and White supremacist 1
and neo-Nazi infiltration of law enforcement and correc-2
tions agencies. The domestic-terrorism training shall focus 3
on the most significant domestic terrorism threats, as deter-4
mined by the quantitative analysis in the joint report re-5
quired under section 4(b). 6
(b) REQUIREMENT.—Any individual who provides do-7
mestic terrorism training required under this section shall 8
have— 9
(1) expertise in domestic terrorism; and 10
(2) relevant academic, law enforcement, or other 11
community-based experience in matters related to do-12
mestic terrorism. 13
(c) REPORT.— 14
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after 15
the date of enactment of this Act and twice each year 16
thereafter, the Secretary, the Attorney General, and 17
the Director shall each submit a biannual report to 18
the committees of Congress described in section 19
4(b)(1) on the domestic terrorism training imple-20
mented by their respective agencies under this section, 21
which shall include copies of all training materials 22
used and the names and qualifications of the individ-23
uals who provide the training. 24
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(2) CLASSIFICATION AND PUBLIC RELEASE.— 1
Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall 2
be— 3
(A) unclassified, to the greatest extent pos-4
sible, with a classified annex only if necessary; 5
and 6
(B) in the case of the unclassified portion of 7
each report, posted on the public website of the 8
Department of Homeland Security, the Depart-9
ment of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of In-10
vestigation. 11
SEC. 6. INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE. 12
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 13
date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, the Di-14
rector, the Secretary, and the Secretary of Defense shall es-15
tablish an interagency task force to analyze and combat 16
White supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration of the uni-17
formed services and Federal law enforcement agencies. 18
(b) REPORT.— 19
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 20
the interagency task force is established under sub-21
section (a), the Attorney General, the Director, the 22
Secretary, and the Secretary of Defense shall submit 23
a joint report on the findings of the task force and the 24
response of the Attorney General, the Director, the 25
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Secretary, and the Secretary of Defense to such find-1
ings, to— 2
(A) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 3
Senate; 4
(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 5
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 6
(C) the Select Committee on Intelligence of 7
the Senate; 8
(D) the Committee on Armed Services of the 9
Senate; 10
(E) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 11
House of Representatives; 12
(F) the Committee on Homeland Security of 13
the House of Representatives; 14
(G) the Permanent Select Committee on In-15
telligence of the House of Representatives; and 16
(H) the Committee on Armed Services of the 17
House of Representatives. 18
(2) CLASSIFICATION AND PUBLIC RELEASE.—The 19
report submitted under paragraph (1) shall be— 20
(A) submitted in unclassified form, to the 21
greatest extent possible, with a classified annex 22
only if necessary; and 23
(B) in the case of the unclassified portion of 24
the report, posted on the public website of the De-25
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partment of Defense, the Department of Home-1
land Security, the Department of Justice, and 2
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 3
SEC. 7. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SUPPORT FOR HATE 4
CRIME INCIDENTS WITH A NEXUS TO DOMES-5
TIC TERRORISM. 6
(a) COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE.—The Commu-7
nity Relations Service of the Department of Justice, author-8
ized under section 1001(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 9
(42 U.S.C. 2000g), may offer the support of the Service to 10
communities where the Department of Justice has brought 11
charges in a hate crime incident that has a nexus to domes-12
tic terrorism. 13
(b) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.—Section 14
249 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 15
at the end the following: 16
‘‘(e) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.—The At-17
torney General, acting through the Director of the Federal 18
Bureau of Investigation, shall assign a special agent or hate 19
crimes liaison to each field office of the Federal Bureau of 20
Investigation to investigate hate crimes incidents with a 21
nexus to domestic terrorism (as such term is defined in sec-22
tion 3 of the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020).’’. 23
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SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 1
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Depart-2
ment of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the 3
Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of 4
Defense such sums as may be necessary to carry out this 5
Act. 6
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[Rep
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