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119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7427 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide threat analyses, 
including relating to terrorism threats, and guidance to State, local, 
Tribal, or territorial government officials or employees regarding visiting 
foreign nationals who seek access to State, local, Tribal, or territorial 
officials or employees, information, facilities, programs, or systems, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 9, 2026 
Mr. GOLDMAN of New York (for himself and Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
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 amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide 
threat analyses, including relating to terrorism threats, 
and guidance to State, local, Tribal, or territorial govern-
ment officials or employees regarding visiting foreign 
nationals who seek access to State, local, Tribal, or terri-
torial officials or employees, information, facilities, pro-
grams, or systems, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing Access from 
Foreign Entities Visiting Internal Sites in the States Act’’ 
or the ‘‘SAFE VISITS Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DHS THREAT ANALYSES AND GUIDANCE RELATED 
TO VISITING FOREIGN NATIONALS TO STATE, 
LOCAL, TRIBAL, AND TERRITORIAL GOVERN-
MENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 210H. THREAT ANALYSES AND GUIDANCE RELATED 
TO VISITING FOREIGN NATIONALS TO STATE, 
LOCAL, TRIBAL, AND TERRITORIAL GOVERN-
MENTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this section and annually 
thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee 
on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate a threat analysis, including 
relating to potential terrorism threats, reported to the De-
partment by State, local, Tribal, or territorial government 
officials or employees, regarding any known visits by for-
eign nationals who— 
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‘‘(1) seek to meet with such officials or employ-
ees, or 
‘‘(2) seek access to State, local, Tribal, or terri-
torial government information, facilities, programs, 
or systems, and 
disseminate to State, local, Tribal, and territorial govern-
ments guidance based on such threat analysis. 
‘‘(b) CONTENT OF THREAT ANALYSIS AND GUID-
ANCE.—The threat analysis, including relating to poten-
tial terrorism threats, and guidance under subsection (a) 
shall contain the following: 
‘‘(1) Descriptions of high-risk State, local, Trib-
al, and territorial government targets. 
‘‘(2) An analysis of trends related to visits by 
foreign nationals who seek access to State, local, 
Tribal, or territorial officials or employees, informa-
tion, facilities, programs, or systems based on vet-
ting request information submitted to, by, or 
through fusion centers (as such term is defined in 
section 210A) by State, local, Tribal, or territorial 
governments. 
‘‘(3) Descriptions of actions that may be taken 
to mitigate homeland security threats, including po-
tential terrorism threats, and protect State, local, 
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Tribal, and territorial officials or employees, infor-
mation, facilities, programs, or systems. 
‘‘(c) TAILORED OUTREACH AND VETTING ASSIST-
ANCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary, based on 
the threat analysis under subsection (a), identifies a 
particular State, local, Tribal, or territorial govern-
ment official or employee or information, facility, 
program, or system as a high-risk potential target of 
a visiting foreign national who seeks access to such 
official or employee, information, facility, program, 
or system, the Secretary shall carry out the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) Conduct outreach to the identified 
State, local, Tribal, or territorial government 
and provide information, unclassified or classi-
fied at the lowest possible level, regarding such 
potential target. 
‘‘(B) Provide the identified State, local, 
Tribal, or Territorial government with assist-
ance vetting such a foreign national. 
‘‘(C) Provide the identified State, local, 
Tribal, or Territorial government with addi-
tional guidance on specific actions that may be 
taken to mitigate homeland security threats, in-
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cluding potential terrorism threats, in connec-
tion with such visit. 
‘‘(2) DEBRIEFINGS.—Not later than 30 days 
after an identified State, local, Tribal, or Territorial 
government hosts a visiting foreign national for 
which the Department provided assistance in accord-
ance with paragraph (1), the Secretary shall request 
a debriefing from such host State, local, Tribal, or 
territorial government to maintain awareness of any 
attempt by visiting foreign nationals to obtain access 
to officials or employees, information, facilities, pro-
grams, or systems of such host State, local, Tribal, 
or Territorial government, and the techniques used 
by such visiting foreign nationals. 
‘‘(d) REPORT.—The Secretary shall annually 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 description of 
the outreach and vetting assistance by the Secretary under 
subsection (c) during the immediately preceding six month 
period. Each report under this subsection shall be sub-
mitted together with each corresponding report required 
under subsection (a), beginning with the second such re-
port under such subsection. 
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‘‘(e) INFORMATION DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘information’ means data or materials collected, pos-
sessed, or prepared by a State, local, Tribal, or territorial 
government that is not intended for public disclosure or 
general use.’’. 
(b) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—The Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall, to the extent practicable, co-
ordinate with the Under Secretary for Science and Tech-
nology of the Department of Homeland Security to carry 
out research and development of a technology to enhance 
sharing of information to carry out section 210H of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002, as added by subsection 
(a). 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section (b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
210G the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 210H. Threat analyses and guidance related to visiting foreign nationals 
to State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments.’’. 
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