Law Enforcement Support and Counter Transnational Repression Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2116 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2116

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to conduct a law enforcement 
      support and counter transnational repression public service 
             announcement campaign, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2025

  Mr. Evans of Colorado (for himself, Mr. Pfluger, and Mr. Magaziner) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
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 conduct a law enforcement 
      support and counter transnational repression public service 
             announcement campaign, 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 ``Law Enforcement Support and Counter 
Transnational Repression Act''.

SEC. 2. LAW ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT AND COUNTER TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION 
              PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle H of title VIII of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

``SEC. 890E. LAW ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT AND COUNTER TRANSNATIONAL 
              REPRESSION PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN.

    ``(a) Campaign.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall direct the Office of 
        Partnership and Engagement of the Department to conduct a 
        public service announcement campaign educating the public and 
        international allies on the issue of transnational repression 
        and terrorism threats related to transnational repression and 
        the resources available to victims of transnational repression 
        and terrorism threats related to transnational repression, 
        including the appropriate manners of contacting the Federal 
        Bureau of Investigation to anonymously report suspected acts of 
        transnational repression and terrorism threats related to 
        transnational repression.
            ``(2) Implementation.--Public service announcement 
        campaigns under paragraph (1) should be carried out in 
        languages determined relevant by the Secretary.
    ``(b) Research.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Secretary, in coordination with the 
Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the Department, shall, to 
the extent practicable, carry out research and development, including 
operational testing, of technologies and techniques for enhancing the 
Department's support to Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial 
officials relating to countering transnational repression and terrorism 
threats related to transnational repression, in accordance with 
applicable constitutional, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties 
protections.
    ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Agent of a foreign government.--The term `agent of a 
        foreign government' means an individual or entity that operates 
        subject to the direction or control of--
                    ``(A) a foreign government; or
                    ``(B) an official or entity of such foreign 
                government.
            ``(2) Foreign government.--The term `foreign government' 
        means the government of a foreign country.
            ``(3) Transnational repression.--The term `transnational 
        repression' means an action of a foreign government or an agent 
        of a foreign government that satisfies each of the following:
                    ``(A) The action involves--
                            ``(i) any effort intended to coerce, 
                        harass, or digitally or physically threaten, 
                        including by force or reasonable fear of death 
                        or serious bodily injury or imprisonment of a 
                        person or an immediate family member of a 
                        person, a person to take an action in the 
                        interest of such a foreign government;
                            ``(ii) any effort intended to harass or 
                        coerce, including by force or fear, a person to 
                        forebear from exercising their First Amendment 
                        rights or any other right guaranteed to the 
                        person by the Constitution or laws of the 
                        United States, or to retaliate against a person 
                        for having exercised such a right;
                            ``(iii) an extrajudicial killing; or
                            ``(iv) any act intended to further the 
                        efforts specified in clause (i), (ii), or 
                        (iii).
                    ``(B) The action is engaged in for or in the 
                interests of such a foreign government.
                    ``(C) The action--
                            ``(i) occurs, in whole or in part, in the 
                        United States; or
                            ``(ii) is committed against a United States 
                        person.
            ``(4) United states person.--The term `United States 
        person' has the meaning given such term in section 1637(d)(10) 
        of the Carl Levin and Howard P. `Buck' McKeon National Defense 
        Authorization Act for Fiscal year 2015 (50 U.S.C. 
        1708(d)(10)).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the 
item relating to section 890D the following new item:

``Sec. 890E. Law enforcement support and counter transnational 
                            repression public service announcement 
                            campaign.''.
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