Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote on a motion to invoke cloture on a bill that establishes new requirements to expand the availability of information on domestic terrorism, as well as the relationship between domestic terrorism and hate crimes.

Highlights:

• Establishes new requirements to expand the availability of information on domestic terrorism, as well as the relationship between domestic terrorism and hate crimes (Sec. 3).

• Authorizes domestic terroism components within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to monitor, analyze, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism (Sec. 3).

• Requires the domestic terrorism components of DHS, DOJ, and FBI jointly report on domestic terrorism, including white-supremacist-related incidents or attempted incidents (Sec. 3).

• Establishes an interagency task force to analyze and combate white supremacists and neo-Nazi infiltration of the uniformed services and federal law enforcement agencies (Sec. 3).

• Authorizes the FBI to assign a special agent or hate crime liason to each field office to investigate hate crimes incidents with a nexus to domestic terrorism (Sec. 3).

• Requires the DHS, DOJ, and FBI review the anti-terrorism training and resource programs of their agencies that are provided to federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, and make trainings on prosecuting domestic terrorism available to its prosecutors and to assistant U.S. attorneys (Sec. 4).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes new requirements to expand the availability of information on domestic terrorism, as well as the relationship between domestic terrorism and hate crimes.

Highlights:

• Establishes new requirements to expand the availability of information on domestic terrorism, as well as the relationship between domestic terrorism and hate crimes (Sec. 3).

• Authorizes domestic terroism components within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to monitor, analyze, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism (Sec. 3).

• Requires the domestic terrorism components of DHS, DOJ, and FBI jointly report on domestic terrorism, including white-supremacist-related incidents or attempted incidents (Sec. 3).

• Establishes an interagency task force to analyze and combate white supremacists and neo-Nazi infiltration of the uniformed services and federal law enforcement agencies (Sec. 3).

• Authorizes the FBI to assign a special agent or hate crime liason to each field office to investigate hate crimes incidents with a nexus to domestic terrorism (Sec. 3).

• Requires the DHS, DOJ, and FBI review the anti-terrorism training and resource programs of their agencies that are provided to federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, and make trainings on prosecuting domestic terrorism available to its prosecutors and to assistant U.S. attorneys (Sec. 4).

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text