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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7433 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a transnational 
repression hotline and conduct a transnational repression public service 
announcement campaign, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 23, 2024 
Mr. D’ESPOSITO (for himself, Mr. MAGAZINER, and Mr. PFLUGER) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Se-
curity, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 
a transnational repression hotline and conduct a 
transnational repression public service announcement 
campaign, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Law Enforcement Sup-
port and Transnational Repression Hotline Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION HOTLINE AND PUB-
LIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle H of title VIII of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 890E. TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION HOTLINE AND 
PUBLIC 
SERVICE 
ANNOUNCEMENT 
CAM-
PAIGN. 
‘‘(a) TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION HOTLINE.—The 
Secretary, in coordination with the Director of Homeland 
Security Investigations, shall establish a hotline to receive 
anonymous information from any United States person 
that believes such person is the victim of transnational re-
pression or a related terrorism threat. 
‘‘(b) TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION PUBLIC SERVICE 
ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in coordina-
tion with the Director of Homeland Security Inves-
tigations, shall direct the Office of Partnership and 
Engagement of the Department to conduct a public 
service announcement campaign educating the public 
on the issue of transnational repression and related 
terrorism threats and the resources available to vic-
tims of transnational repression and related ter-
rorism threats. 
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‘‘(2) IMPLEMENTATION.—Public service an-
nouncement campaigns under paragraph (1) should 
be carried out in the following languages: 
‘‘(A) English. 
‘‘(B) Mandarin. 
‘‘(C) Russian. 
‘‘(D) Farsi. 
‘‘(E) Arabic. 
‘‘(F) Spanish. 
‘‘(G) Turkish. 
‘‘(H) Hindi. 
‘‘(I) Urdu. 
‘‘(J) Any other language determined rel-
evant by the Director of Homeland Security In-
vestigations. 
‘‘(c) RESEARCH.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary, in 
coordination with the Under Secretary for Science and 
Technology of the Department, and the Director of Home-
land Security Investigations, shall, to the extent prac-
ticable, carry out research and development, including 
operational testing, of technologies and techniques for en-
hancing the Department’s security and situational aware-
ness support to Federal, State, local, Tribal, and terri-
torial officials relating to combating transnational repres-
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sion and related terrorism threats, in accordance with ap-
plicable constitutional, privacy, civil rights, and civil lib-
erties protections. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) AGENT
OF
A
FOREIGN
GOVERNMENT.— 
The term ‘agent of a foreign government’ means an 
individual or entity that operates subject to the di-
rection or control of— 
‘‘(A) a foreign government; or 
‘‘(B) an official or entity of such foreign 
government. 
‘‘(2) FOREIGN GOVERNMENT.—The term ‘for-
eign government’ means the government of a foreign 
country. 
‘‘(3) TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION.—The term 
‘transnational repression’ means an action of a for-
eign government or an agent of a foreign govern-
ment that satisfies each of the following: 
‘‘(A) The action involves— 
‘‘(i) any effort intended to coerce, har-
ass, or digitally or physically threaten, in-
cluding by force or reasonable fear of 
death or serious bodily injury or imprison-
ment of a person or an immediate family 
member of a person, a person to take an 
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action in the interest of such a foreign gov-
ernment; 
‘‘(ii) any effort intended to harass or 
coerce, including by force or fear, a person 
to forebear from exercising their First 
Amendment rights or any other right guar-
anteed to the person by the Constitution or 
laws of the United States, or to retaliate 
against a person for having exercised such 
a right; 
‘‘(iii) an extrajudicial killing; or 
‘‘(iv) any act intended to further the 
efforts specified in clause (i), (ii), or (iii). 
‘‘(B) The action is engaged in for or in the 
interests of such a foreign government. 
‘‘(C) The action— 
‘‘(i) occurs, in whole or in part, in the 
United States; or 
‘‘(ii) is committed against a United 
States person. 
‘‘(4) UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—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-
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thorization Act for Fiscal year 2015 (50 U.S.C. 
1708(d)(10)).’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
890D the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 890E. Transnational repression hotline and public service announcement 
campaign.’’. 
Æ 
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