practicable, carry out research and development, including 
operational testing, of technologies and techniques for en-
hancing the Department’s support to Federal, State, local, 
Tribal, and territorial officials relating to countering 
transnational repression and terrorism threats related to 
transnational repression. 
‘‘(c) 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. 
‘‘(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 and 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. 
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‘‘(3) FUSION CENTER.—The term ‘fusion cen-
ter’ has the meaning given such term in subsection 
(j) of section 210A. 
‘‘(4) 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)). 
‘‘(5) 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. 
‘‘(6) 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 
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member of a person, a person to take an 
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 the First 
Amendment rights of such person or any 
other right guaranteed to such 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. 
‘‘(7) 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. Working group to counter transnational repression.’’. 
Æ 
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