Transnational White Supremacist Extremism Review Act

Transnational White Supremacist Extremism Review Act

This bill directs the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop and disseminate a threat assessment and reference aid regarding threats to the United States associated with foreign violent white supremacist extremist organizations.

The threat assessment and reference aid (1) shall be developed in coordination with DHS's Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and other appropriate agencies and may be informed by existing products developed by such office and agencies; and (2) shall include an overview of symbols, flags, or other references utilized by adherents of foreign violent white supremacist extremist organizations.

The office shall share the threat assessment and reference aid with (1) state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials; and (2) owners and operators of online platforms to assist in identifying content that may be associated with a foreign violent white supremacist extremist organization that may violate the terms of service of such platforms, upon request from such platforms. Such office shall ensure that the threat assessment and reference aid does not contain the name or other identifiable information of any individual or organization engaged in lawful political or public discourse in the United States protected under the Constitution.

[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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