IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1327 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 20, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct 
a threat assessment of terrorist threats to the United 
States posed by individuals in Syria with an affiliation 
with a Foreign Terrorist Organization or a Specially 
Designated Global Terrorist Organization, and for other 
purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Syria Terrorism 
Threat Assessment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. THREAT ASSESSMENT OF TERRORIST THREATS 
POSED BY INDIVIDUALS IN SYRIA WITH AN 
AFFILIATION WITH A FOREIGN TERRORIST 
ORGANIZATION 
OR 
A 
SPECIALLY 
DES-
IGNATED 
GLOBAL 
TERRORIST 
ORGANIZA-
TION. 
(a) TERRORISM THREAT ASSESSMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security, in coordination with the heads of other rel-
evant Federal departments or agencies, shall con-
duct a threat assessment of terrorist threats to the 
United States posed by individuals in Syria with an 
affiliation with a foreign terrorist organization or a 
specially designated global terrorist organization. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The threat assessment re-
quired under paragraph (1) shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(A) An identification of the country of ori-
gin for each such individual included in such 
threat assessment. 
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(B) A description of the foreign terrorist 
organization or specially designated global ter-
rorist organization with which each such indi-
vidual is affiliated. 
(C) A description of the following: 
(i) The capability of the Department 
of Homeland Security to identify, track, 
and monitor such individuals. 
(ii) Any associated challenges with 
such capability. 
(D) A description of any action of the De-
partment with respect to the following: 
(i) Mitigating the terrorist threats to 
the United States posed by such individ-
uals. 
(ii) Preventing such individuals from 
entering the United States. 
(b) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
shall— 
(A) submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees the threat assessment re-
quired under subsection (a); and 
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(B) provide a briefing to the appropriate 
congressional committees on such assessment. 
(2) FORM.—The threat assessment required 
under subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassi-
fied form, but may include a classified annex. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 
(2) FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’ means an or-
ganization designated as a foreign terrorist organiza-
tion under section 219 of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 
(3) SPECIALLY
DESIGNATED
GLOBAL
TER-
RORIST
ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘‘specially des-
ignated global terrorist organization’’ means an or-
ganization that has been designated as a specially 
designated global terrorist organization by the Sec-
retary of State or the Secretary of the Treasury, as 
the case may be, pursuant to Executive Order 13224 
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(50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking property 
and prohibiting transactions with persons who com-
mit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism). 
Passed the House of Representatives November 19, 
2025. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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