Title: JCAT Authorization Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team Authorization Act or the JCAT Authorization Act
This bill reauthorizes for FY2020-FY2025 the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group and renames the group the Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4883 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4883

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to reauthorize and rename 
 the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group as the Joint 
                   Counterterrorism Assessment Team.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2019

  Mr. McCaul introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Homeland Security, 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 reauthorize and rename 
 the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group as the Joint 
                   Counterterrorism Assessment Team.

    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 ``Joint Counterterrorism Assessment 
Team Authorization Act'' or the ``JCAT Authorization Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION AND RENAMING OF INTERAGENCY THREAT ASSESSMENT 
              AND COORDINATION GROUP.

    (a) Reauthorization.--Section 210D of the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 (6 U.S.C. 124k(i)) is amended in subsection (i) by inserting ``, 
and each of fiscal years 2020 through 2025,'' after ``fiscal years 2008 
through 2012''.
    (b) Renaming.--Such section is further amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``interagency 
        threat assessment and coordination group'' and inserting 
        ``joint counterterrorism assessment team'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``an Interagency Threat Assessment 
                and Coordination Group'' and inserting ``a Joint 
                Counterterrorism Assessment Team''; and
                    (B) by striking ``ITACG'' and inserting ``JCAT'';
            (3) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``ITACG'' in the heading and 
                inserting ``JCAT'';
                    (B) by striking ``ITACG'' and inserting ``JCAT'';
                    (C) by striking ``an ITACG Advisory Council'' and 
                inserting ``a JCAT Advisory Council'';
                    (D) by striking ``an ITACG Detail'' and inserting 
                ``a JCAT Detail''; and
                    (E) by striking ``the ITACG Advisory Council'' and 
                inserting ``the JCAT Advisory Council'';
            (4) in subsection (c), by striking ``ITACG'' each place 
        that it appears and inserting ``JCAT'';
            (5) in subsection (d), by striking ``ITACG'' each place 
        that it appears and inserting ``JCAT'';
            (6) in subsection (e), by striking ``ITACG'' and inserting 
        ``JCAT'';
            (7) in subsection (f), by striking ``ITACG'' each place 
        that it appears and inserting ``JCAT'';
            (8) in subsection (g), by striking ``ITACG'' each place 
        that it appears and inserting ``JCAT'';
            (9) in subsection (h), by striking ``ITACG'' and inserting 
        ``JCAT''; and
            (10) in subsection (i), by striking ``ITACG'' and inserting 
        ``JCAT''.
    (c) References in Law.--Any reference in any law, rule, or 
regulation to the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group 
shall be deemed a reference to the Joint Counterterrorism Assessment 
Team.
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