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This bill — the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2019 — would require federal law enforcement agencies to regularly address domestic terrorism threats. It’d also provide training and resources to assist state, local, and tribal law enforcement efforts to address these threats.

Under this bill, the Dept. of Justice (DOJ), Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would each establish an office responsible for monitoring, analyzing, investigating, and prosecuting domestic terrorism. It would also require those offices to issue joint annual reports to the House and Senate Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Intelligence Committees. These reports would:

Assess the domestic terrorism threat posed by white supremacists;
Analyze domestic terrorism incidents that occurred in the previous year; and
Provide transparency through a public quantitative analysis of domestic terrorism-related assessments, investigations, incidents, arrests, indictments, prosecutions, convictions, and weapons recoveries.

This Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee (DTEC), an interagency task force originally created by the DOJ after the Oklahoma City bombing, would be made permanent and codified into law.

This bill would also require DOJ, DHS, and the FBI to provide training and resources to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement in understanding, detecting, deterring, and investigating acts of domestic terrorism. It would also require the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces and state, local, and regional fusion centers to: 1) share intelligence to address domestic terrorism activities; 2) conduct annual, intelligence-based assessments of domestic terrorism activities in their jurisdictions; and 3) formulate and execute a plan to combat domestic terrorism activities in their jurisdictions.

Finally, this legislation would establish an interagency task force to combat white supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration of the uniformed services.

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