FTO Reform Act of 2014

FTO Reform Act of 2014 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) revise the list of relevant committees to which the Secretary of State must provide prior notice with respect to the designation of a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) to include the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees, and (2) include the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) among the officials the Secretary of State must consult in making such designation.

Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to transmit recommendations to the Secretary of State regarding an FTO designation, including an assessment of the threat to national security due to terrorist activity or terrorism carried out by the organization.

Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to report on:

• DHS activities relating to FTO designations and an accounting of the effects each such designation has on DHS operations;
• the number of individuals denied entry into the United States due to their support for an FTO and an identification of such FTOs;
• the number of individuals removed from the United States due to their support for an FTO and an identification of such FTOs;
• a list of all revocations of otherwise ineligible nonimmigrant visas considered by DHS; and
• a list of all individuals with respect to whom a revocation was granted, their associations with an FTO, and an identification of such FTOs.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5348 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5348

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to collaborate on foreign 
                  terrorist organization designations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2014

   Mr. King of New York (for himself and Mr. McCaul) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to collaborate on foreign 
                  terrorist organization designations.

    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 ``FTO Reform Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 
              COLLABORATION.

    (a) Designation.--Section 219(d) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by inserting ``Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs,'' before ``and Foreign Relations 
                of the Senate''; and
                    (B) by striking ``and International Relations of 
                the House of Representatives'' and inserting ``Homeland 
                Security, and Foreign Affairs of the House of 
                Representatives''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4), by inserting after ``Secretary of the 
        Treasury'' the following: ``, the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security,''.
    (b) Consultation.--Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), in the matter preceding 
        subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, in accordance with 
        subsection (d),'' after ``The Secretary'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(d) Consultation.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall, as 
soon as practicable, transmit to the Secretary the recommendations of 
the Secretary of Homeland Security to the Secretary of State regarding 
the designation under this section of an organization as a foreign 
terrorist organization, including an assessment of the threat to 
national security due to terrorist activity or terrorism carried out by 
the organization under review.''.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 
to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs a 
report on the the following:
            (1) The activities of the Department of Homeland Security 
        relating to Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designations, 
        and an accounting of the effects each such designation has on 
        the Department's operations.
            (2) The number of individuals denied entry into the United 
        States due to their support for an FTO and an identification of 
        such FTOs.
            (3) The number of individuals removed from the United 
        States due to their support for an FTO and an identification of 
        such FTOs.
            (4) A list of all revocations of otherwise ineligible 
        nonimigrant visas considered by the Department of Homeland 
        Security.
            (5) A list of all individuals with respect to whom a 
        revocation was granted, their associations with an FTO, and an 
        identification of such FTOs.
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