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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6563 
To require notifications of changes to policies and procedures governing ter-
rorist watchlist and transnational organized crime watchlist, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 10, 2025 
Mr. CASTRO of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To require notifications of changes to policies and procedures 
governing terrorist watchlist and transnational organized 
crime watchlist, 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 ‘‘Terrorist Watchlist 
Modification Review Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES TO POLI-
CIES OR PROCEDURES GOVERNING TER-
RORIST WATCHLIST AND TRANSNATIONAL 
ORGANIZED CRIME WATCHLIST. 
(a) NOTIFICATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES.— 
(1) NOTIFICATION REQUIRED.—The Director of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees notice of 
any material change to a policy or procedure relating 
to the terrorist watchlist or the transnational orga-
nized crime watchlist, including any change to the 
policy or procedure for adding or removing a person 
from either watchlist. Each notification under this 
subsection shall include a summary of the material 
changes to such policy or procedure. 
(2) TIMING OF NOTIFICATION.—Each notifica-
tion required under paragraph (1) shall be sub-
mitted not later than 30 days after the date on 
which a material change described in paragraph (1) 
takes effect. 
(b) REQUESTS BY APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES.—Not 
later than 30 days after receiving a request from an ap-
propriate congressional committee, the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to such com-
mittee all guidance in effect as of the date of the request 
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that applies to or governs the use of the terrorist watchlist 
or the transnational organized crime watchlist. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committees on Appropriations of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives; 
(C) the Committees on the Judiciary of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives; and 
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House 
of Representatives. 
(2) TERRORIST
WATCHLIST.—The term ‘‘ter-
rorist watchlist’’ means the Terrorist Screening 
Dataset or any successor or similar watchlist. 
(3) 
TRANSNATIONAL
ORGANIZED
CRIME 
WATCHLIST.—The term ‘‘transnational organized 
crime watchlist’’ means the watchlist maintained 
under the Transnational Organized Crime Actor De-
tection Program or any successor or similar 
watchlist. 
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SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT ON UNITED STATES PERSONS ON 
THE TERRORIST WATCH LIST. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than January 31, 2026, and 
annually thereafter for two years, the Director of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report on known or pre-
sumed United States persons who are included on the ter-
rorist watchlist. 
(b) CONTENTS.—Each report required under sub-
section (a) shall include, with respect to the preceding cal-
endar year, the following information: 
(1) The total number of persons who were in-
cluded on the terrorist watchlist as of January 1 and 
the total number of such persons included as of De-
cember 31. 
(2) The total number of known or presumed 
United States persons who were included on the ter-
rorist watchlist as of January 1 and the total num-
ber of such persons included as of December 31, in-
cluding with respect to each of those dates— 
(A) the number of known or presumed 
United States persons who were included on a 
no fly list; 
(B) the number of known or presumed 
United States persons who were included on a 
selectee list for additional screening; 
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(C) the number of known or presumed 
United States persons who were included on the 
terrorist watchlist as an exception to a reason-
able suspicion standard and who are not subject 
to additional screening, but who are included on 
the list to support specific screening functions 
of the Federal Government; 
(D) the name of each terrorist organiza-
tion with which the known or presumed United 
States persons are suspected of being affiliated 
and the number of such persons who are sus-
pected of affiliating with each such terrorist or-
ganization; and 
(E) an identification of each Federal agen-
cy that nominated the United States persons to 
the terrorist watchlist and the number of such 
persons nominated by each Federal agency. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committees on Appropriations of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives; 
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(C) the Committees on the Judiciary of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives; and 
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House 
of Representatives. 
(2) TERRORIST
WATCHLIST.—The term ‘‘ter-
rorist watchlist’’ means the Terrorist Screening 
Dataset or any successor or similar watchlist. 
(3) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Sur-
veillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801). 
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