Title: To direct the head of each department and agency of the United States to submit annual reports to Congress on the security clearances to individuals by reason of the individuals' affiliation with hate groups, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill requires each federal agency and department to report annually to Congress on the following:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation must establish and maintain a list of hate groups (i.e., organizations that have beliefs or practices that attack or malign a group of people based on immutable characteristics, including race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity).

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6359 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6359

 To direct the head of each department and agency of the United States 
  to submit annual reports to Congress on the security clearances to 
individuals by reason of the individuals' affiliation with hate groups, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2018

 Mr. Krishnamoorthi (for himself and Ms. Wilson of Florida) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight 
                         and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the head of each department and agency of the United States 
  to submit annual reports to Congress on the security clearances to 
individuals by reason of the individuals' affiliation with hate groups, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPORTS ON SECURITY CLEARANCES OF INDIVIDUALS WITH HATE 
              GROUP AFFILIATION.

    (a) Report Required.--Not later than December 1 of each year, the 
head of each department and agency of the United States shall submit to 
Congress a report that includes--
            (1) the number of individuals who, during the preceding 
        calendar year, were denied a security clearance by reason of an 
        affiliation with a hate group; and
            (2) the number of individuals who, during the preceding 
        calendar year, received a security clearance despite an 
        affiliation with a hate group.
    (b) List of Hate Groups.--For purposes of carrying out subsection 
(a), the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 
coordination with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, 
shall establish and maintain a list of hate groups, which shall be made 
available to the head of each department and agency of the United 
States.
    (c) Hate Group Defined.--In this section, the term ``hate group'' 
means an organization that based on official statements or principles, 
the statements of its leaders, or its activities has beliefs or 
practices that attack or malign a group of people based on immutable 
characteristics, including race, religion, ethnicity, sexual 
orientation, and gender identity.
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