Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021
- Last Action
- 3/24/2021
Actions
- 2021-03-24Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1773-1774)
- 2021-03-24Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-03-24 (00)
Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021
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.
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.
Subjects
- Community life and organization
- Congressional oversight
- Crime prevention
- Crime victims
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal justice information and records
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Employment and training programs
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Federal-Indian relations
- Firearms and explosives
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Hate crimes
- Intergovernmental relations
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