Title: DHS Overseas Personnel Enhancement Act of 2019
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
DHS Overseas Personnel Enhancement Act of 2019
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to semiannually brief the congressional homeland security committees regarding DHS personnel with primary duties that take place outside of the United States. DHS must submit to such committees a plan to enhance the effectiveness of  DHS personnel at foreign locations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2590 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2590

    To require a Department of Homeland Security overseas personnel 
               enhancement plan, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2019

    Mr. Katko (for himself and Mrs. Watson Coleman) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require a Department of Homeland Security overseas personnel 
               enhancement plan, 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 ``DHS Overseas Personnel Enhancement 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. OVERSEAS PERSONNEL BRIEFING.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after submission of the 
comprehensive 3-year strategy required under section 1910 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 
114-328) and every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall brief the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs of the Senate regarding Department of Homeland Security 
personnel with primary duties that take place outside of the United 
States.
    (b) Requirements.--The briefings required under subsection (a) 
shall include the following:
            (1) A detailed summary of each type of personnel position 
        with primary duties that take place outside of the United 
        States and how each such position contributes to the Department 
        of Homeland Security's counterterrorism mission.
            (2) Information related to how the geographic and regional 
        placement of such positions contributes to the Department's 
        counterterrorism mission.
            (3) Information related to the position-specific training 
        received by such personnel before and during placement at a 
        foreign location.
            (4) Challenges that may impede the communication of 
        counterterrorism information between Department personnel at 
        foreign locations and Department entities in the United States, 
        including technical, resource, and administrative challenges.
            (5) The status of efforts to implement the strategy 
        referred to in subsection (a).
            (6) The status of efforts (beginning with the second 
        briefing required under this section) to implement the 
        enhancement plan under section 3.

SEC. 3. OVERSEAS PERSONNEL ENHANCEMENT PLAN.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the first briefing 
required under section 2, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee 
on Homeland Security of the House and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a plan to enhance the 
effectiveness of Department of Homeland Security personnel at foreign 
locations.
    (b) Plan Requirements.--The plan required under subsection (a) 
shall include proposals to--
            (1) improve efforts of Department of Homeland Security 
        personnel at foreign locations, as necessary, for purposes of 
        providing foreign partner capacity development and furthering 
        the Department's counterterrorism mission;
            (2) as appropriate, redeploy Department personnel to 
        respond to changing threats to the United States;
            (3) enhance collaboration among Department personnel at 
        foreign locations, other Federal personnel at foreign 
        locations, and foreign partners;
            (4) improve the communication of counterterrorism 
        information between Department personnel at foreign locations 
        and Department entities in the United States, including to 
        address technical, resource, and administrative challenges; and
            (5) maintain practices to guard against counter-espionage 
        threats associated with Department personnel.

SEC. 4. TERMINATION.

    The briefing requirement under section 2 shall terminate on the 
date that is four years after the submission of the strategy referred 
to in such section.
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