I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4918 
To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department 
of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity 
and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic 
terrorism. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 2, 2018 
Mr. SCHNEIDER (for himself, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. KELLY of 
Illinois, Mr. CORREA, and Mr. GONZALEZ of Texas) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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 con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the 
Department of Homeland Security, the Department of 
Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ana-
lyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require 
the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domes-
tic terrorism. 
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 ‘‘Domestic Terrorism 
Prevention Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) White supremacists and other right-wing 
extremists are the most significant domestic ter-
rorism threat facing the United States. 
(2) An unclassified May 2017 joint intelligence 
bulletin from the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
and the Department of Homeland Security found 
that ‘‘white supremacist extremism poses [a] per-
sistent threat of lethal violence,’’ and that White su-
premacists ‘‘were responsible for 49 homicides in 26 
attacks from 2000 to 2016 . . . more than any 
other domestic extremist movement’’. 
(3) According to the New America Foundation, 
since September 11, 2001, 77 Americans have died 
in terrorist attacks by domestic extremists in the 
United States. Eighty-nine percent were killed by 
far-right-wing extremists. 
(4) The fatal attacks described in paragraph 
(3) include— 
(A) the August 5, 2012, mass shooting at 
a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 
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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’’; 
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(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; and 
(H) the August 12, 2017, attack in Char-
lottesville, Virginia, in which a White suprema-
cist allegedly killed one and injured nineteen 
after driving his car through a crowd of individ-
uals protesting a neo-Nazi rally, and of which 
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, ‘‘It does 
meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our 
statute.’’. 
(5) The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on 
Extremism found that right-wing extremists were re-
sponsible for 150 terrorist acts, attempted acts, and 
plots and conspiracies that took place in the United 
States between 1993 and 2017. These attacks re-
sulted in the deaths of 255 people and injured more 
than 600. 
(6) According to the Southern Poverty Law 
Center, in 2015, for the first time in 5 years, the 
number of hate groups in the United States rose by 
14 percent. The increase included a more than two-
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fold rise in the number of Ku Klux Klan chapters. 
The number of anti-government militias and ‘‘pa-
triot’’ groups also grew by 14 percent in 2015. 
(7) In November 2017, the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation released its annual hate crime incident 
report, which found that in 2016, hate crimes in-
creased by almost 5 percent, including a 19-percent 
rise in hate crimes against American Muslims. Simi-
larly, the previous year’s report found that in 2015, 
hate crimes increased by 6 percent. Much of that in-
crease came from a 66-percent rise in attacks on 
American Muslims. In both reports, race-based 
crimes were most numerous; more than 50 percent 
of those hate crimes targeted African Americans. 
(8) In January 2017, a right-wing extremist 
who had expressed anti-Muslim views was charged 
with murder for allegedly killing 6 people and injur-
ing nineteen in a shooting rampage at a mosque in 
Quebec City, Canada. It was the first-ever mass 
shooting at a mosque in North America, and Prime 
Minister Trudeau labeled it a terrorist attack. 
(9) Between January and July 2017, news re-
ports found 63 incidents in which American mosques 
were targeted by threats, vandalism, or arson. 
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SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 
(2) the term ‘‘domestic terrorism’’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 2331 of title 18, 
United States Code; 
(3) the term ‘‘Domestic Terrorism Executive 
Committee’’ means the committee within the De-
partment of Justice tasked with assessing and shar-
ing information about ongoing domestic terrorism 
threats; and 
(4) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 4. OFFICES TO COMBAT DOMESTIC TERRORISM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF OFFICES TO MONITOR, ANA-
LYZE, INVESTIGATE, AND PROSECUTE DOMESTIC TER-
RORISM.— 
(1) DOMESTIC TERRORISM UNIT.—There is au-
thorized a Domestic Terrorism Unit in the Office of 
Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of 
Homeland Security, which shall be responsible for 
monitoring and analyzing domestic terrorism activ-
ity. 
(2) DOMESTIC TERRORISM OFFICE.—There is 
authorized a Domestic Terrorism Office in the 
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Counterterrorism Section of the National Security 
Division of the Department of Justice— 
(A) which shall be responsible for inves-
tigating and prosecuting incidents of domestic 
terrorism; and 
(B) which shall be headed by the Domestic 
Terrorism Counsel. 
(3) DOMESTIC
TERRORISM
SECTION
OF
THE 
FBI.—There is authorized a Domestic Terrorism 
Section within the Counterterrorism Division of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, which shall be re-
sponsible for investigating domestic terrorism activ-
ity. 
(b) JOINT REPORT ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM.— 
(1) ANNUAL
REPORT
REQUIRED.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, and each year thereafter, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall 
submit a joint report authored by the domestic ter-
rorism offices authorized under paragraphs (1), (2), 
and (3) of subsection (a) to— 
(A) the Committee on the Judiciary, the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
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mental Affairs, and the Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on the Judiciary, the 
Committee on Homeland Security, and the Per-
manent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
House of Representatives. 
(2) CONTENTS.—Each report submitted under 
paragraph (1) shall include— 
(A) an assessment of the domestic ter-
rorism threat posed by White supremacists, in-
cluding White supremacist infiltration and re-
cruitment of law enforcement officers and mem-
bers of the Armed Forces; 
(B)(i) in the first report, an analysis of in-
cidents or attempted incidents of domestic ter-
rorism that have occurred in the United States 
since April 19, 1995; and 
(ii) in each subsequent report, an analysis 
of incidents or attempted incidents of domestic 
terrorism that occurred in the United States 
during the preceding year; and 
(C) a quantitative analysis of domestic ter-
rorism for the preceding year, including the 
number of— 
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(i) domestic terrorism related assess-
ments initiated by the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, including the number of as-
sessments from each classification and sub-
category; 
(ii) domestic terrorism related prelimi-
nary investigations initiated by the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, including the 
number of preliminary investigations from 
each classification and subcategory, and 
how many preliminary investigations re-
sulted from assessments; 
(iii) domestic terrorism related full in-
vestigations initiated by the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, including the number 
of full investigations from each classifica-
tion and subcategory, and how many full 
investigations resulted from preliminary in-
vestigations and assessments; 
(iv) domestic terrorism related inci-
dents, including the number of incidents 
from each classification and subcategory, 
the number of deaths and injuries result-
ing from each incident, and a detailed ex-
planation of each incident; 
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(v) Federal domestic terrorism related 
arrests, including the number of arrests 
from each classification and subcategory, 
and a detailed explanation of each arrest; 
(vi) Federal domestic terrorism re-
lated indictments, including the number of 
indictments from each classification and 
subcategory, and a detailed explanation of 
each indictment; 
(vii) Federal domestic terrorism re-
lated prosecutions, including the number of 
incidents from each classification and sub-
category, and a detailed explanation of 
each prosecution; 
(viii) Federal domestic terrorism re-
lated convictions, including the number of 
convictions from each classification and 
subcategory, and a detailed explanation of 
each conviction; and 
(ix) Federal domestic terrorism re-
lated weapons recoveries, including the 
number of each type of weapon and the 
number of weapons from each classifica-
tion and subcategory. 
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(3) CLASSIFICATION AND PUBLIC RELEASE.— 
Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall 
be— 
(A) unclassified, to the greatest extent pos-
sible, with a classified annex only if necessary; 
and 
(B) in the case of the unclassified portion 
of the report, posted on the public websites of 
the Department of Homeland Security, the De-
partment of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation. 
(c) 
DOMESTIC
TERRORISM
EXECUTIVE
COM-
MITTEE.—There is authorized a Domestic Terrorism Ex-
ecutive Committee, which shall— 
(1) meet on a regular basis, and not less regu-
larly than 4 times each year, to coordinate with 
United States Attorneys and other key public safety 
officials across the country to promote information 
sharing and ensure an effective, responsive, and or-
ganized joint effort to combat domestic terrorism; 
and 
(2) be co-chaired by— 
(A) the Domestic Terrorism Counsel au-
thorized under subsection (a)(2)(B); 
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