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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 6563 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6563
To require notifications of changes to policies and procedures
governing terrorist watchlist and transnational organized crime
watchlist, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 10, 2025
Mr. Castro of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To require notifications of changes to policies and procedures
governing terrorist watchlist and transnational organized crime
watchlist, 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 ``Terrorist Watchlist Modification
Review Act''.
SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES TO POLICIES OR PROCEDURES
GOVERNING TERRORIST WATCHLIST AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED
CRIME WATCHLIST.
(a) Notification of Material Changes.--
(1) Notification required.--The Director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees notice of any material change to a
policy or procedure relating to the terrorist watchlist or the
transnational organized crime watchlist, including any change
to the policy or procedure for adding or removing a person from
either watchlist. Each notification under this subsection shall
include a summary of the material changes to such policy or
procedure.
(2) Timing of notification.--Each notification required
under paragraph (1) shall be submitted not later than 30 days
after the date on which a material change described in
paragraph (1) takes effect.
(b) Requests by Appropriate Committees.--Not later than 30 days
after receiving a request from an appropriate congressional committee,
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to
such committee all guidance in effect as of the date of the request
that applies to or governs the use of the terrorist watchlist or the
transnational organized crime watchlist.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the congressional intelligence committees;
(B) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate
and the House of Representatives;
(C) the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate
and the House of Representatives; and
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
(2) Terrorist watchlist.--The term ``terrorist watchlist''
means the Terrorist Screening Dataset or any successor or
similar watchlist.
(3) Transnational organized crime watchlist.--The term
``transnational organized crime watchlist'' means the watchlist
maintained under the Transnational Organized Crime Actor
Detection Program or any successor or similar watchlist.
SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT ON UNITED STATES PERSONS ON THE TERRORIST WATCH
LIST.
(a) Report.--Not later than January 31, 2026, and annually
thereafter for two years, the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees
a report on known or presumed United States persons who are included on
the terrorist watchlist.
(b) Contents.--Each report required under subsection (a) shall
include, with respect to the preceding calendar year, the following
information:
(1) The total number of persons who were included on the
terrorist watchlist as of January 1 and the total number of
such persons included as of December 31.
(2) The total number of known or presumed United States
persons who were included on the terrorist watchlist as of
January 1 and the total number of such persons included as of
December 31, including with respect to each of those dates--
(A) the number of known or presumed United States
persons who were included on a no fly list;
(B) the number of known or presumed United States
persons who were included on a selectee list for
additional screening;
(C) the number of known or presumed United States
persons who were included on the terrorist watchlist as
an exception to a reasonable suspicion standard and who
are not subject to additional screening, but who are
included on the list to support specific screening
functions of the Federal Government;
(D) the name of each terrorist organization with
which the known or presumed United States persons are
suspected of being affiliated and the number of such
persons who are suspected of affiliating with each such
terrorist organization; and
(E) an identification of each Federal agency that
nominated the United States persons to the terrorist
watchlist and the number of such persons nominated by
each Federal agency.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the congressional intelligence committees;
(B) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate
and the House of Representatives;
(C) the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate
and the House of Representatives; and
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
(2) Terrorist watchlist.--The term ``terrorist watchlist''
means the Terrorist Screening Dataset or any successor or
similar watchlist.
(3) United states person.--The term ``United States
person'' has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801).
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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