Law Enforcement Support and Transnational Repression Hotline Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7433 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7433

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a transnational 
   repression hotline and conduct a transnational repression public 
         service announcement campaign, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 2024

Mr. D'Esposito (for himself, Mr. Magaziner, and Mr. Pfluger) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
  Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a transnational 
   repression hotline and conduct a transnational repression public 
         service announcement campaign, 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 ``Law Enforcement Support and 
Transnational Repression Hotline Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION HOTLINE AND PUBLIC SERVICE 
              ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle H of title VIII of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

``SEC. 890E. TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION HOTLINE AND PUBLIC SERVICE 
              ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN.

    ``(a) Transnational Repression Hotline.--The Secretary, in 
coordination with the Director of Homeland Security Investigations, 
shall establish a hotline to receive anonymous information from any 
United States person that believes such person is the victim of 
transnational repression or a related terrorism threat.
    ``(b) Transnational Repression Public Service Announcement 
Campaign.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary, in coordination with the 
        Director of Homeland Security Investigations, shall direct the 
        Office of Partnership and Engagement of the Department to 
        conduct a public service announcement campaign educating the 
        public on the issue of transnational repression and related 
        terrorism threats and the resources available to victims of 
        transnational repression and related terrorism threats.
            ``(2) Implementation.--Public service announcement 
        campaigns under paragraph (1) should be carried out in the 
        following languages:
                    ``(A) English.
                    ``(B) Mandarin.
                    ``(C) Russian.
                    ``(D) Farsi.
                    ``(E) Arabic.
                    ``(F) Spanish.
                    ``(G) Turkish.
                    ``(H) Hindi.
                    ``(I) Urdu.
                    ``(J) Any other language determined relevant by the 
                Director of Homeland Security Investigations.
    ``(c) Research.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Secretary, in coordination with the 
Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the Department, and the 
Director of Homeland Security Investigations, shall, to the extent 
practicable, carry out research and development, including operational 
testing, of technologies and techniques for enhancing the Department's 
security and situational awareness support to Federal, State, local, 
Tribal, and territorial officials relating to combating transnational 
repression and related terrorism threats, in accordance with applicable 
constitutional, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections.
    ``(d) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Agent of a foreign government.--The term `agent of a 
        foreign government' means an individual or entity that operates 
        subject to the direction or control of--
                    ``(A) a foreign government; or
                    ``(B) an official or entity of such foreign 
                government.
            ``(2) Foreign government.--The term `foreign government' 
        means the government of a foreign country.
            ``(3) Transnational repression.--The term `transnational 
        repression' means an action of a foreign government or an agent 
        of a foreign government that satisfies each of the following:
                    ``(A) The action involves--
                            ``(i) any effort intended to coerce, 
                        harass, or digitally or physically threaten, 
                        including by force or reasonable fear of death 
                        or serious bodily injury or imprisonment of a 
                        person or an immediate family member of a 
                        person, a person to take an action in the 
                        interest of such a foreign government;
                            ``(ii) any effort intended to harass or 
                        coerce, including by force or fear, a person to 
                        forebear from exercising their First Amendment 
                        rights or any other right guaranteed to the 
                        person by the Constitution or laws of the 
                        United States, or to retaliate against a person 
                        for having exercised such a right;
                            ``(iii) an extrajudicial killing; or
                            ``(iv) any act intended to further the 
                        efforts specified in clause (i), (ii), or 
                        (iii).
                    ``(B) The action is engaged in for or in the 
                interests of such a foreign government.
                    ``(C) The action--
                            ``(i) occurs, in whole or in part, in the 
                        United States; or
                            ``(ii) is committed against a United States 
                        person.
            ``(4) United states person.--The term `United States 
        person' has the meaning given such term in section 1637(d)(10) 
        of the Carl Levin and Howard P. `Buck' McKeon National Defense 
        Authorization Act for Fiscal year 2015 (50 U.S.C. 
        1708(d)(10)).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the 
item relating to section 890D the following new item:

``Sec. 890E. Transnational repression hotline and public service 
                            announcement campaign.''.
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