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Group, in coordination with the Office of Intelligence and 
Analysis, shall also ensure the dissemination to Federal, 
State, local, Tribal, and territorial partners, and the Na-
tional Network of Fusion Centers, of information related 
to such threats. 
(d) ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this section and 
annually thereafter for five years, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, in coordination with the Under 
Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis of the De-
partment of Homeland Security, the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of 
National Intelligence, shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report that as-
sesses terrorist, cybersecurity, border and port secu-
rity, and transportation security threats posed to the 
United States by the Chinese Communist Party dur-
ing the immediately preceding 12 months. 
(2) CONTENTS.—Each assessment under para-
graph (1) shall also include the following: 
(A) A description of the activities and op-
erations of the Working Group undertaken pur-
suant to subsection (b). 
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(B) Any other matters the Secretary of 
Homeland Security determines relevant. 
(3) FORM.—Each assessment under paragraph 
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 
include a classified annex. The Secretary of Home-
land Security shall post on a publicly available 
website of the Department of Homeland Security the 
unclassified portion of each assessment. 
(4) BRIEFING.—Not later than 30 days after 
the submission of each assessment under paragraph 
(1), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall pro-
vide to the appropriate congressional committees a 
briefing on such assessment and the progress and 
challenges of the Working Group. 
(e) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEW.—Not later 
than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 
the implementation of this section. 
(f) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—Not later than 
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the 
Director and the Under Secretary for Science and Tech-
nology of the Department of Homeland Security, shall, to 
the extent practicable, carry out research and develop-
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ment, including operational testing, of technologies and 
techniques for enhancing the Department’s security and 
situational awareness relating to countering terrorist, cy-
bersecurity, border and port security, and transportation 
security threats posed to the United States by the Chinese 
Communist Party. 
(g) IMPLEMENTATION.—All activities carried out 
pursuant to this section— 
(1) shall be carried out in accordance with ap-
plicable constitutional, privacy, civil rights, and civil 
liberties protections; and 
(2) may not infringe upon the lawful exercise of 
free speech by United States persons. 
(h) SUNSET.—The Working Group shall terminate on 
the date that is seven years after the establishment of the 
Working Group under subsection (a)(1). 
(i) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) in the House of Representatives— 
(i) the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity; 
(ii) the Committee on Ways and 
Means; 
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(iii) the Committee on Financial Serv-
ices; 
(iv) the Committee on the Judiciary; 
and 
(v) the Committee on Foreign Affairs; 
and 
(B) in the Senate— 
(i) the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity and Governmental Affairs; 
(ii) the Committee on Banking, Hous-
ing, and Urban Affairs; 
(iii) the Committee on Finance; 
(iv) the Committee on the Judiciary; 
and 
(v) the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions. 
(2) FUSION CENTER.—The term ‘‘fusion cen-
ter’’ has the meaning given such term in subsection 
(k) of section 210A of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124h). 
(3) INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.—The term 
‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 3(4) of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 
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(4) NATIONAL
NETWORK
OF
FUSION
CEN-
TERS.—The term ‘‘National Network of Fusion Cen-
ters’’ means a decentralized arrangement of fusion 
centers intended to enhance individual State and 
urban area fusion centers’ ability to leverage the ca-
pabilities and expertise of all such fusion centers for 
the purpose of enhancing analysis and homeland se-
curity information sharing nationally. 
(5) UNITED
STATES
PERSONS.—The term 
‘‘United States person’’ has the meaning given such 
term in section 1637(d)(10) of the Carl Levin and 
Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal year 2015 (50 U.S.C. 
1708(d)(10)). 
Passed the House of Representatives March 10, 
2025. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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