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SENATE 1591118th CongressRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1649-1650)

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2023

Last Action
5/15/2023

Actions

  • 2023-05-15Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1649-1650)
  • 2023-05-15Introduced in Senate

CRS Summary

As of 2023-05-15 (00)

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2023

This bill establishes new requirements to expand the availability of information on domestic terrorism, as well as the relationship between domestic terrorism and hate crimes.

It authorizes domestic terrorism components within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to monitor, analyze, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism.

The domestic terrorism components of DHS, DOJ, and the FBI must jointly report on domestic terrorism, including white-supremacist-related incidents or attempted incidents.

DHS, DOJ, and the FBI must review the anti-terrorism training and resource programs of their agencies that are provided to federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. Additionally, DOJ must make training on prosecuting domestic terrorism available to its prosecutors and to assistant U.S. attorneys.

It creates an interagency task force to analyze and combat white supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration of the uniformed services and federal law enforcement agencies.

Finally, it directs the FBI to assign a special agent or hate crimes liaison to each field office to investigate hate crimes incidents with a nexus to domestic terrorism.

Cosponsors (11)

  • Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
  • Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
  • Patty Murray (D-WA)
  • Ben Cardin (D-MD)
  • Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
  • Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
  • Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
  • Brian Schatz (D-HI)
  • Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
  • Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
  • Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
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