Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Domestic Terrorism 
Prevention Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Recent reports have demonstrated that 
White supremacists and other far-right-wing extrem-
ists are the most significant domestic terrorism 
threat facing the United States, including— 
(A) a February 22, 2019, New York Times 
op-ed, by a Trump Administration United 
States Department of Justice official, who 
wrote that ‘‘white supremacy and far-right ex-
tremism are among the greatest domestic-secu-
rity threats facing the United States. Regret-
tably, over the past 25 years, law enforcement, 
at both the Federal and State levels, has been 
slow to respond. * * * Killings committed by in-
dividuals and groups associated with far-right 
extremist groups have risen significantly.’’; 
(B) an April 2017 Government Account-
ability Office report on the significant, lethal
threat posed by domestic violent extremists, 
which— 
(i) explained that ‘‘[s]ince September 
12, 2001, the number of fatalities caused 
by domestic violent extremists has ranged 
from 1 to 49 in a given year.’’; and 
(ii) noted that ‘‘[F]atalities resulting 
from attacks by far right wing violent ex-
tremists have exceeded those caused by 
radical Islamist violent extremists in 10 of 
the 15 years, and were the same in 3 of 
the years since September 12, 2001. Of 
the 85 violent extremist incidents that re-
sulted in death since September 12, 2001, 
far right wing violent extremist groups 
were responsible for 62 (73 percent) while 
radical Islamist violent extremists were re-
sponsible for 23 (27 percent).’’; and 
(C) an unclassified May 2017 joint intel-
ligence bulletin from the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation and the Department of Homeland 
Security, which found that ‘‘white supremacist 
extremism poses [a] persistent threat of lethal 
violence,’’ and that White supremacists ‘‘were 
responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from
2000 to 2016 * * * more than any other do-
mestic extremist movement’’. 
(2) Recent domestic terrorist attacks include— 
(A) the August 5, 2012, mass shooting at 
a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 
which a White supremacist shot and killed 6 
members of the gurdwara; 
(B) the April 13, 2014, mass shooting at 
a Jewish community center and a Jewish as-
sisted living facility in Overland Park, Kansas, 
in which a neo-Nazi shot and killed 3 civilians, 
including a 14-year-old teenager; 
(C) the June 8, 2014, ambush in Las 
Vegas, Nevada, in which 2 supporters of the 
far-right-wing ‘‘patriot’’ movement shot and 
killed 2 police officers and a civilian; 
(D) the June 17, 2015, mass shooting at 
the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South 
Carolina, in which a White supremacist shot 
and killed 9 members of the church; 
(E) the November 27, 2015, mass shooting 
at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado 
Springs, Colorado, in which an anti-abortion ex-
tremist shot and killed a police officer and 2 ci-
vilians;
(F) the March 20, 2017, murder of an Af-
rican-American man in New York City, alleg-
edly committed by a White supremacist who re-
portedly traveled to New York ‘‘for the purpose 
of killing black men’’; 
(G) the May 26, 2017, attack in Portland, 
Oregon, in which a White supremacist allegedly 
murdered 2 men and injured a third after the 
men defended 2 young women whom the indi-
vidual had targeted with anti-Muslim hate 
speech; 
(H) the August 12, 2017, attacks in Char-
lottesville, Virginia, in which— 
(i) a White supremacist killed one and 
injured nineteen after driving his car 
through a crowd of individuals protesting a 
neo-Nazi rally, and of which former Attor-
ney General Jeff Sessions said, ‘‘It does 
meet the definition of domestic terrorism 
in our statute.’’; and 
(ii) a group of 6 men linked to militia 
or White supremacist groups assaulted an 
African-American man who had been pro-
testing the neo-Nazi rally in a downtown 
parking garage;
(I) the July 2018 murder of an African- 
American woman from Kansas City, Missouri, 
allegedly committed by a White supremacist 
who reportedly bragged about being a member 
of the Ku Klux Klan; 
(J) the October 24, 2018, shooting in 
Jeffersontown, Kentucky, in which a White 
man allegedly murdered 2 African Americans at 
a grocery store after first attempting to enter 
a church with a predominantly African-Amer-
ican congregation during a service; 
(K) the October 27, 2018, mass shooting 
at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, in which a White nationalist al-
legedly shot and killed 11 members of the con-
gregation; 
(L) the April 27, 2019, shooting at the 
Chabad of Poway synagogue in California, in 
which a man yelling anti-Semitic slurs allegedly 
killed a member of the congregation and 
wounded 3 others; 
(M) the August 3, 2019, mass shooting at 
a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in which a White 
supremacist with anti-immigrant views killed 22 
people and injured 26 others;
(N) the December 10, 2019, shooting at a 
Kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jer-
sey, in which 2 men with anti-Semitic views 
killed 3 people in the store and a law enforce-
ment officer in an earlier encounter; and 
(O) the December 28, 2019, machete at-
tack at a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, 
New York, in which a man who had expressed 
anti-Semitic views stabbed 5 individuals. 
(3) In November 2019, the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation released its annual hate crime incident 
report, which found that in 2018, violent hate crimes 
reached a 16-year high. Though the overall number 
of hate crimes decreased slightly after three consecu-
tive years of increases, the report found a 4-percent 
increase in aggravated assaults, a 15-percent in-
crease in simple assaults, and a 13-percent increase 
in intimidation. There was also a nearly 6-percent 
increase in hate crimes directed at LGBTQ individ-
uals and a 14-percent increase in hate crimes di-
rected at Hispanic and Latino individuals. Nearly 60 
percent of the religion-based hate crimes reported 
targeted American Jews and Jewish institutions. 
The previous year’s report found that in 2017, hate 
crimes increased by approximately 17 percent, in-