Title: ACE Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Allies Countering Extremism Act or the ACE Act
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 regarding the promoting antiterrorism through the international cooperation program to allow France and Germany to be included as foreign partners.
The bill authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Department of State and appropriate federal officials, to enter into cooperative activities with foreign partners to strengthen efforts relating to countering violent extremism. Such activities may include: (1) efforts aimed at improving counter-radicalization and counter-messaging methods, and (2) recommendations for incorporating any new findings into national policies for countering violent extremism.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6408 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6408

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize international 
  cooperative activities to strengthen efforts relating to countering 
               violent extremism, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2018

  Mr. Keating (for himself and Ms. Stefanik) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in 
   addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize international 
  cooperative activities to strengthen efforts relating to countering 
               violent extremism, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Allies Countering Extremism Act'' or 
the ``ACE Act''.

SEC. 2. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES TO STRENGTHEN EFFORTS 
              RELATING TO COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM.

    Section 317 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 195c) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(2), by inserting ``France, Germany,'' 
        after ``United Kingdom,'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as subsections 
        (i) and (j), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (g) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(h) Countering Violent Extremism.--As part of the international 
cooperative activities authorized in this section, the Under Secretary, 
in coordination with the Secretary of State and appropriate Federal 
officials, may enter into cooperative activities with partners 
specified in subsection (c)(2) to strengthen efforts relating to 
countering violent extremism. Such activities may include--
            ``(1) efforts aimed at improving counter-radicalization and 
        counter-messaging methods; and
            ``(2) recommendations for incorporating any new findings 
        into national policies for countering violent extremism.''.
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