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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4918 

To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department 

of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity 

and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic 

terrorism. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 2, 2018 

Mr. SCHNEIDER (for himself, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. KELLY of 

Illinois, Mr. CORREA, and Mr. GONZALEZ of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 

in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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 

A BILL 

To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the 

Department of Homeland Security, the Department of 

Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require 

the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Domestic Terrorism 

3 Prevention Act of 2018’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Congress finds the following: 

6 (1) White supremacists and other right-wing 

7 extremists are the most significant domestic ter8 rorism threat facing the United States. 

9 (2) An unclassified May 2017 joint intelligence 

10 bulletin from the Federal Bureau of Investigation 

11 and the Department of Homeland Security found 

12 that ‘‘white supremacist extremism poses [a] per13 sistent threat of lethal violence,’’ and that White su14 premacists ‘‘were responsible for 49 homicides in 26 

15 attacks from 2000 to 2016 . . . more than any 

16 other domestic extremist movement’’. 

17 (3) According to the New America Foundation, 

18 since September 11, 2001, 77 Americans have died 

19 in terrorist attacks by domestic extremists in the 

20 United States. Eighty-nine percent were killed by 

21 far-right-wing extremists. 

22 (4) The fatal attacks described in paragraph 

23 (3) include— 

24 (A) the August 5, 2012, mass shooting at 

25 a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 


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1 which a White supremacist shot and killed 6 

2 members of the gurdwara; 

3 (B) the April 13, 2014, mass shooting at 

4 a Jewish community center and a Jewish as5 sisted living facility in Overland Park, Kansas, 

6 in which a neo-Nazi shot and killed 3 civilians, 

7 including a 14-year-old teenager; 

8 (C) the June 8, 2014, ambush in Las 

9 Vegas, Nevada, in which 2 supporters of the far 

10 right-wing ‘‘patriot’’ movement shot and killed 

11 2 police officers and a civilian; 

12 (D) the June 17, 2015, mass shooting at 

13 the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South 

14 Carolina, in which a White supremacist shot 

15 and killed 9 members of the church; 

16 (E) the November 27, 2015, mass shooting 

17 at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado 

18 Springs, Colorado, in which an anti-abortion ex19 tremist shot and killed a police officer and 2 ci20 vilians; 

21 (F) the March 20, 2017, murder of an Af22 rican-American man in New York City, alleg23 edly committed by a White supremacist who re24 portedly traveled to New York ‘‘for the purpose 

25 of killing black men’’; 


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1 (G) the May 26, 2017, attack in Portland, 

2 Oregon, in which a White supremacist allegedly 

3 murdered 2 men and injured a third after the 

4 men defended 2 young women whom the indi5 vidual had targeted with anti-Muslim hate 

6 speech; and 

7 (H) the August 12, 2017, attack in Char8 lottesville, Virginia, in which a White suprema9 cist allegedly killed one and injured nineteen 

10 after driving his car through a crowd of individ11 uals protesting a neo-Nazi rally, and of which 

12 Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, ‘‘It does 

13 meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our 

14 statute.’’. 

15 (5) The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on 

16 Extremism found that right-wing extremists were re17 sponsible for 150 terrorist acts, attempted acts, and 

18 plots and conspiracies that took place in the United 

19 States between 1993 and 2017. These attacks re20 sulted in the deaths of 255 people and injured more 

21 than 600. 

22 (6) According to the Southern Poverty Law 

23 Center, in 2015, for the first time in 5 years, the 

24 number of hate groups in the United States rose by 

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1 fold rise in the number of Ku Klux Klan chapters. 

2 The number of anti-government militias and ‘‘pa3 triot’’ groups also grew by 14 percent in 2015. 

4 (7) In November 2017, the Federal Bureau of 

5 Investigation released its annual hate crime incident 

6 report, which found that in 2016, hate crimes in7 creased by almost 5 percent, including a 19-percent 

8 rise in hate crimes against American Muslims. Simi9 larly, the previous year’s report found that in 2015, 

10 hate crimes increased by 6 percent. Much of that in11 crease came from a 66-percent rise in attacks on 

12 American Muslims. In both reports, race-based 

13 crimes were most numerous; more than 50 percent 

14 of those hate crimes targeted African Americans. 

15 (8) In January 2017, a right-wing extremist 

16 who had expressed anti-Muslim views was charged 

17 with murder for allegedly killing 6 people and injur18 ing nineteen in a shooting rampage at a mosque in 

19 Quebec City, Canada. It was the first-ever mass 

20 shooting at a mosque in North America, and Prime 

21 Minister Trudeau labeled it a terrorist attack. 

22 (9) Between January and July 2017, news re23 ports found 63 incidents in which American mosques 

24 were targeted by threats, vandalism, or arson. 


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1 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

2 In this Act— 

3 (1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 

4 the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 

5 (2) the term ‘‘domestic terrorism’’ has the 

6 meaning given the term in section 2331 of title 18, 

7 United States Code; 

8 (3) the term ‘‘Domestic Terrorism Executive 

9 Committee’’ means the committee within the De10 partment of Justice tasked with assessing and shar11 ing information about ongoing domestic terrorism 

12 threats; and 

13 (4) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 

14 of Homeland Security. 

15 SEC. 4. OFFICES TO COMBAT DOMESTIC TERRORISM. 

16 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF OFFICES TO MONITOR, ANA17 LYZE, INVESTIGATE, AND PROSECUTE DOMESTIC TER18 RORISM.— 

19 (1) DOMESTIC TERRORISM UNIT.—There is au20 thorized a Domestic Terrorism Unit in the Office of 

21 Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of 

22 Homeland Security, which shall be responsible for 

23 monitoring and analyzing domestic terrorism activ24 ity. 

25 (2) DOMESTIC TERRORISM OFFICE.—There is 

26 authorized a Domestic Terrorism Office in the 


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1 Counterterrorism Section of the National Security 

2 Division of the Department of Justice— 

3 (A) which shall be responsible for inves4 tigating and prosecuting incidents of domestic 

5 terrorism; and 

6 (B) which shall be headed by the Domestic 

7 Terrorism Counsel. 

8 (3) DOMESTIC TERRORISM SECTION OF THE

9 FBI.—There is authorized a Domestic Terrorism 

10 Section within the Counterterrorism Division of the 

11 Federal Bureau of Investigation, which shall be re12 sponsible for investigating domestic terrorism activ13 ity. 

14 (b) JOINT REPORT ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM.— 

15 (1) ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later 

16 than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 

17 Act, and each year thereafter, the Secretary of 

18 Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the 

19 Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall 

20 submit a joint report authored by the domestic ter21 rorism offices authorized under paragraphs (1), (2), 

22 and (3) of subsection (a) to— 

23 (A) the Committee on the Judiciary, the 

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1 mental Affairs, and the Select Committee on 

2 Intelligence of the Senate; and 

3 (B) the Committee on the Judiciary, the 

4 Committee on Homeland Security, and the Per5 manent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 

6 House of Representatives. 

7 (2) CONTENTS.—Each report submitted under 

8 paragraph (1) shall include— 

9 (A) an assessment of the domestic ter10 rorism threat posed by White supremacists, in11 cluding White supremacist infiltration and re12 cruitment of law enforcement officers and mem13 bers of the Armed Forces; 

14 (B)(i) in the first report, an analysis of in15 cidents or attempted incidents of domestic ter16 rorism that have occurred in the United States 

17 since April 19, 1995; and 

18 (ii) in each subsequent report, an analysis 

19 of incidents or attempted incidents of domestic 

20 terrorism that occurred in the United States 

21 during the preceding year; and 

22 (C) a quantitative analysis of domestic ter23 rorism for the preceding year, including the 

24 number of— 


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1 (i) domestic terrorism related assess2 ments initiated by the Federal Bureau of 

3 Investigation, including the number of as4 sessments from each classification and sub5 category; 

6 (ii) domestic terrorism related prelimi7 nary investigations initiated by the Federal 

8 Bureau of Investigation, including the 

9 number of preliminary investigations from 

10 each classification and subcategory, and 

11 how many preliminary investigations re12 sulted from assessments; 

13 (iii) domestic terrorism related full in14 vestigations initiated by the Federal Bu15 reau of Investigation, including the number 

16 of full investigations from each classifica17 tion and subcategory, and how many full 

18 investigations resulted from preliminary in19 vestigations and assessments; 

20 (iv) domestic terrorism related inci21 dents, including the number of incidents 

22 from each classification and subcategory, 

23 the number of deaths and injuries result24 ing from each incident, and a detailed ex25 planation of each incident; 


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1 (v) Federal domestic terrorism related 

2 arrests, including the number of arrests 

3 from each classification and subcategory, 

4 and a detailed explanation of each arrest; 

5 (vi) Federal domestic terrorism re6 lated indictments, including the number of 

7 indictments from each classification and 

8 subcategory, and a detailed explanation of 

9 each indictment; 

10 (vii) Federal domestic terrorism re11 lated prosecutions, including the number of 

12 incidents from each classification and sub13 category, and a detailed explanation of 

14 each prosecution; 

15 (viii) Federal domestic terrorism re16 lated convictions, including the number of 

17 convictions from each classification and 

18 subcategory, and a detailed explanation of 

19 each conviction; and 

20 (ix) Federal domestic terrorism re21 lated weapons recoveries, including the 

22 number of each type of weapon and the 

23 number of weapons from each classifica24 tion and subcategory. 


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1 (3) CLASSIFICATION AND PUBLIC RELEASE.— 

2 Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall 

3 be— 

4 (A) unclassified, to the greatest extent pos5 sible, with a classified annex only if necessary; 

6 and 

7 (B) in the case of the unclassified portion 

8 of the report, posted on the public websites of 

9 the Department of Homeland Security, the De10 partment of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of 

11 Investigation. 

12 (c) DOMESTIC TERRORISM EXECUTIVE COM13 MITTEE.—There is authorized a Domestic Terrorism Ex14 ecutive Committee, which shall— 

15 (1) meet on a regular basis, and not less regu16 larly than 4 times each year, to coordinate with 

17 United States Attorneys and other key public safety 

18 officials across the country to promote information 

19 sharing and ensure an effective, responsive, and or20 ganized joint effort to combat domestic terrorism; 

21 and 

22 (2) be co-chaired by— 

23 (A) the Domestic Terrorism Counsel au24 thorized under subsection (a)(2)(B); 


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1 (B) a United States Attorney or Assistant 

2 United States Attorney; 

3 (C) a member of the National Security Di4 vision of the Department of Justice; and 

5 (D) a member of the Federal Bureau of 

6 Investigation. 

7 (d) FOCUS ON GREATEST THREATS.—The domestic 

8 terrorism offices authorized under paragraphs (1), (2), 

9 and (3) of subsection (a) shall focus their limited resources 

10 on the most significant domestic terrorism threats, as de11 termined by the number of domestic terrorism related inci12 dents from each category and subclassification in the joint 

13 report for the preceding year required under subsection 

14 (b). 

15 SEC. 5. TRAINING TO COMBAT DOMESTIC TERRORISM. 

16 (a) REQUIRED TRAINING AND RESOURCES.—The 

17 State and Local Anti-Terrorism Program, funded by the 

18 Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Department of Jus19 tice, shall include training and resources to assist State, 

20 local, and tribal law enforcement officers in under21 standing, detecting, deterring, and investigating acts of 

22 domestic terrorism. The training shall focus on the most 

23 significant domestic terrorism threats, as determined by 

24 the quantitative analysis in the joint report required under 

25 section 4(b). 


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1 (b) REQUIREMENT.—Any individual who provides do2 mestic terrorism training required under this section shall 

3 have— 

4 (1) expertise in domestic terrorism; and 

5 (2) relevant academic, law enforcement, or 

6 other experience in matters related to domestic ter7 rorism. 

8 (c) REPORT.— 

9 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 

10 the date of enactment of this Act and once each year 

11 thereafter, the Director of the Bureau of Justice As12 sistance shall submit an annual report to the com13 mittees of Congress described in section 4(b)(1) on 

14 the domestic terrorism training implemented under 

15 this section, which shall include copies of all training 

16 materials used and the names and qualifications of 

17 the individuals who provide the training. 

18 (2) CLASSIFICATION.—Each report submitted 

19 under paragraph (1) shall be unclassified, to the 

20 greatest extent possible, with a classified annex only 

21 if necessary. 


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1 SEC. 6. COMBATTING DOMESTIC TERRORISM THROUGH 

2 JOINT TERRORISM TASK FORCES AND FU3 SION CENTERS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—The joint terrorism task forces of 

5 the Federal Bureau of Investigation and State, local, and 

6 regional fusion centers, as established under section 210A 

7 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124h), 

8 shall each, in coordination with the Domestic Terrorism 

9 Executive Committee and the domestic terrorism offices 

10 authorized under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of section 

11 4(a) of this Act— 

12 (1) share intelligence to address domestic ter13 rorism activities; 

14 (2) conduct an annual, intelligence-based as15 sessment of domestic terrorism activities in their ju16 risdictions; and 

17 (3) formulate and execute a plan to address and 

18 combat domestic terrorism activities in their juris19 dictions. 

20 (b) REQUIREMENT.—The activities required under 

21 subsection (a) shall focus on the most significant domestic 

22 terrorism threats, as determined by the number of domes23 tic terrorism related incidents from each category and sub24 classification in the joint report for the preceding year re25 quired under section 4(b). 


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1 SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

2 There are authorized to be appropriated to the De3 partment of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

4 and the Department of Homeland Security such sums as 

5 may be necessary to carry out this Act. 

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