241, 245, 247, and 249 of title 18, United States 
Code, and section 3631 of title 42, United State Code. 
(5) 
INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM.—The 
term 
‘‘international terrorism’’ has the meaning given such 
term in section 2331 of title 18, United States Code. 
(6) ONLINE PLATFORM.—The term ‘‘online plat-
form’’ means any public-facing website, web applica-
tion, or digital application, including a mobile appli-
cation, and includes a social network, an ad network, 
a search engine, or an email service. 
(7) PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION.— 
The term ‘‘personally identifiable information’’ means 
any information about an individual elicited, col-
lected, stored, or maintained by an agency, including 
the following: 
(A) Any information that can be used to 
distinguish or trace the identity of an indi-
vidual, such as a name, a social security num-
ber, a date and place of birth, a mother’s maiden 
name, or biometric records. 
(B) Any other information that is linked or 
linkable to an individual, such as medical, edu-
cational, financial, or employment information. 
(8) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
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TITLE 
I—FEDERAL 
EFFORTS 
AGAINST 
DOMESTIC 
TER-
RORISM AND INTERNATIONAL 
TERRORISM 
SEC. 
101. 
JOINT 
DOMESTIC 
TERRORISM 
AND 
INTER-
NATIONAL TERRORISM REPORT. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act and annu-
ally thereafter for five years, the Secretary, the Attorney 
General, and the Director shall submit to the Comptroller 
General of the United States and the appropriate congres-
sional committees a joint report on domestic terrorism and 
international terrorism. 
(b) CONTENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each report submitted under 
subsection (a) shall include the following: 
(A) All guidance, policy memos, and related 
documents regarding the following: 
(i) The criteria for opening a domestic 
or international terrorism investigation, in-
cluding any standards of proof required be-
fore opening such investigation. 
(ii) Sharing of domestic or inter-
national terrorism information across law 
enforcement agencies. 
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(iii) Federal requirements and compli-
ance with privacy, civil rights, and civil 
liberties policies and protections, including 
protections against the public release of the 
names or personally identifiable informa-
tion of individuals involved in incidents, 
investigations, indictments, prosecutions, or 
convictions for which data is reported under 
this section. 
(B) A description of the methodology uti-
lized to identify domestic and international ter-
rorism investigative classifications (including 
any subcategories) and to assign an investigative 
classification (including any subcategory) to a 
domestic or international terrorism incident. 
(C) The information required under para-
graph (2). 
(2) INFORMATION ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND 
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (A), each report submitted under sub-
section (a) shall include information on incidents of 
domestic terrorism and international terrorism, in-
cluding, with respect to each investigative classifica-
tion (including any subcategory) of each such inci-
dent, the number and type of actual and attempted 
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property crimes, the number and type of actual and 
attempted attacks on persons, the number of people 
injured, and the number of people killed, and— 
(A) in the first such report, data on inci-
dents or attempted incidents of domestic ter-
rorism and international terrorism that have oc-
curred in the United States since April 19, 1995, 
disaggregated by fiscal year, including, with re-
spect to each such incident, the number and type 
of property crimes, the number and type of ac-
tual and attempted attacks on persons, the num-
ber of people injured, and number of people 
killed; and 
(B) in each subsequent report for the pre-
ceding fiscal year— 
(i) data on incidents or attempted in-
cidents of domestic terrorism and inter-
national terrorism that occurred in the 
United States, including, with respect to 
each such incident, the number and type of 
actual and attempted property crimes, the 
number and type of actual and attempted 
attacks on persons, the number of people in-
jured, and the number of people killed; and 
(ii) the number of— 
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(I) assessments, preliminary in-
vestigations, and full investigations 
with a domestic terrorism or inter-
national terrorism nexus initiated by 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
disaggregated by investigative classi-
fication (including any subcategories), 
and the number of such investigations 
that were initiated as a result of a hate 
crime investigation; 
(II) indictments with a domestic 
terrorism or international terrorism 
nexus, disaggregated by investigative 
classification (including any subcat-
egories), and an explanation of each 
such indictment; 
(III) prosecutions with a domestic 
terrorism or international terrorism 
nexus, disaggregated by investigative 
classification (including any subcat-
egories), and an explanation of each 
such prosecution; and 
(IV) convictions with a domestic 
terrorism or international terrorism 
nexus, disaggregated by investigative 
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classification (including any subcat-
egories), and an explanation of each 
such conviction; and 
(iii) the number of full-time staff, in-
cluding position descriptions, employed by 
the Department of Homeland Security and 
the Department of Justice to handle matters 
described in subclauses (I) through (IV) of 
clause (ii), disaggregated by domestic ter-
rorism and international terrorism. 
(3) BREAKDOWN
OF
CERTAIN
INFORMATION.— 
The information provided under paragraph (2) re-
lated to the number of people killed or injured shall 
include a breakdown of law enforcement, first re-
sponders, military personnel, and other government 
officials. 
(c) FORMAT.—The information required pursuant to 
subclauses (I) through (IV) of subsection (b)(2)(B)(ii) may 
be provided in a format that uses the marking associated 
with the Central Records System or any successor system. 
(d) INFORMATION QUALITY.—Each report submitted 
under subsection (a) shall comply with the guidelines issued 
by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
pursuant to section 515 of title V of the Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–554; 114 Stat. 
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2763A–154) (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Data Quality 
Act’’). 
(e) CLASSIFICATION AND PUBLIC RELEASE.—Each re-
port submitted under subsection (a) shall be— 
(1) unclassified with a classified annex only if 
necessary; and 
(2) in the case of the unclassified portion of each 
such report, posted on the public websites of the De-
partment of Homeland Security, the Department of 
Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
SEC. 102. ANNUAL COMPTROLLER GENERAL AUDIT OF 
JOINT REPORT ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM 
AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM. 
(a) REVIEWS REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after each submission of a joint report on domestic ter-
rorism and international terrorism under section 101(a) 
and for five years thereafter, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees an audit of each such report. 
(b) ELEMENTS OF REVIEW.—In conducting each audit 
under subsection (a), the Comptroller General of the United 
States shall— 
(1) use standard methodology and reporting for-
mats in order to identify, demonstrate, and display 
any changes over time, including relating to the num-
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ber of investigations, indictments, prosecutions, con-
victions, and full-time staff between report submis-
sions; 
(2) evaluate adherence to such standard method-
ology and the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties 
policies 
and 
protections 
set 
forth 
in 
section 
101(b)(1)(A)(iii) and 101(b)(1)(B); 
(3) evaluate all guidance, policy memos, and re-
lated documents utilized to decide to initiate inves-
tigations with a domestic terrorism nexus; and 
(4) include any other subject matter the Comp-
troller General determines appropriate. 
(c) ACCESS TO RELEVANT DATA.—The Attorney Gen-
eral, the Director, and the Secretary shall ensure that the 
Comptroller General of the United States has access to all 
data necessary to conduct each audit under subsection (a), 
consistent with section 716(a) of title 31, United States 
Code. 
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TITLE II—HOMELAND SECURITY 
RESEARCH 
ON 
DOMESTIC 
TERRORISM 
AND 
INTER-
NATIONAL TERRORISM 
SEC. 201. RESEARCH ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND 
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the Sec-
retary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and 
Technology of the Department of Homeland Security, shall 
submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report 
on international terrorism with a nexus, including an ideo-
logical or other relationship, with a current trend in domes-
tic terrorism in the United States. Each such report shall 
take into consideration acts that resulted in indictment, 
prosecution, or conviction, and any patterns among such 
terrorist acts. 
(b) CONTENTS.—Each report submitted under sub-
section (a) shall include the following: 
(1) Information on international terrorism with 
ideological, financial, logistical, or other connections 
to domestic terrorism. 
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(2) Information on trends in the use of online 
platforms for such terrorism. 
(3) Strategies that foreign governments have un-
dertaken to counter such terrorism. 
(4) The potential benefits and risks of imple-
menting such strategies in the United States, includ-
ing any potential harm to local communities, pri-
vacy, civil rights, civil liberties, and safety. 
TITLE III—AUTHORIZATION OF 
APPROPRIATIONS AND RULES 
OF CONSTRUCTION 
SEC. 301. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2020 through 2026 to carry out this 
Act, of which $1,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated 
for each of such fiscal years for the completion of the joint 
reports on domestic terrorism and international terrorism 
under section 101, and $1,000,000 is authorized to be ap-
propriated for each of such fiscal years to carry out section 
201. 
SEC. 302. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. 
(a) PII.—No report or database created pursuant to 
this Act may contain the personally identifiable informa-
tion of any person except persons indicted or convicted of 
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a crime with a domestic terrorism or international ter-
rorism nexus. 
(b) DISCOURSE.—No report or database created pursu-
ant to this Act may contain the name or other identifiable 
information of any organization engaged in lawful political 
or public discourse in the United States protected under 
the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. 
(c) PROTECTION.—Nothing in this Act abrogates, di-
minishes, or weakens the provisions of any Federal or State 
law that prevents or protects against the unauthorized col-
lection or release of personal records or personally identifi-
able information. 
(d) DOMESTIC TERRORISM RELATED INFORMATION.— 
Nothing in this Act may be construed as authorizing the 
submission of the joint report required under section 101 
of this Act in a form that does not include information re-
quired with respect to domestic terrorism. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to require a 
joint domestic and international terrorism report, author-
ize research within the Department of Homeland Security 
on current trends in domestic terrorism, and for other 
purposes.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 168 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3106 
[Report No. 116–213, Part I] 
A BILL 
To require a joint domestic terrorism report, estab-
lish within the Department of Homeland Security 
a National Center for the Study of Domestic 
Terrorism, authorize research within the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security on current trends in 
domestic terrorism, and for other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 
Reported from the Committee on Homeland Security 
with amendments 
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 
Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
Union and ordered to be printed 
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