Transnational White Supremacist Extremism Review Act

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5736 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5736

  To direct the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis of the
  Department of Homeland Security to develop and disseminate a threat
   assessment regarding threats to the United States associated with
  foreign violent white supremacist extremist organizations, and for
                            other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2020

Mr. Rose of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred
                 to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL

  To direct the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis of the
  Department of Homeland Security to develop and disseminate a threat
   assessment regarding threats to the United States associated with
  foreign violent white supremacist extremist organizations, 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 ``Transnational White Supremacist
Extremism Review Act''.

SEC. 2. THREAT ASSESSMENT.

    (a) In General.--The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis
of the Department of Homeland Security shall, in coordination with
appropriate Federal partners, develop a terrorism threat assessment
regarding threats to the United States associated with foreign violent
white supremacist extremist organizations. Consistent with the
protection of classified and confidential unclassified information, the
Under Secretary shall share the threat assessment developed under this
section with State, local, and Tribal law enforcement officials,
including officials who operate within State, local, and regional
fusion centers through the Department of Homeland Security State,
Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative established in accordance
with section 210A of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124h).
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``foreign violent white
supremacist extremist organization'' means an organization, such as a
neo-Nazi or racist skinhead group or militia, based outside the United
States, that is engaged in the planning or execution of racially or
ethnically motivated acts of terrorism or other targeted violence
motivated by white supremacist extremism, particularly against
immigrants or individuals perceived to be immigrants, African Americans
or other people of African descent, Jews, Muslims, or other people
perceived to be ethnic minorities or otherwise not perceived to be
white.
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