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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2116
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to conduct a law enforcement
support and counter transnational repression public service announce-
ment campaign, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH14, 2025
Mr. E
VANSof Colorado (for himself, Mr. PFLUGER, and Mr. MAGAZINER) in-
troduced 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
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 Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Law Enforcement Sup-4
port and Counter Transnational Repression Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. LAW ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT AND COUNTER 1
TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION PUBLIC SERV-2
ICE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subtitle H of title VIII of the 4
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) 5
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 6
‘‘SEC. 890E. LAW ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT AND COUNTER 7
TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION PUBLIC SERV-8
ICE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN. 9
‘‘(a) C
AMPAIGN.— 10
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall direct 11
the Office of Partnership and Engagement of the 12
Department to conduct a public service announce-13
ment campaign educating the public and inter-14
national allies on the issue of transnational repres-15
sion and terrorism threats related to transnational 16
repression and the resources available to victims of 17
transnational repression and terrorism threats re-18
lated to transnational repression, including the ap-19
propriate manners of contacting the Federal Bureau 20
of Investigation to anonymously report suspected 21
acts of transnational repression and terrorism 22
threats related to transnational repression. 23
‘‘(2) I
MPLEMENTATION.—Public service an-24
nouncement campaigns under paragraph (1) should 25
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be carried out in languages determined relevant by 1
the Secretary. 2
‘‘(b) R
ESEARCH.—Not later than one year after the 3
date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary, in 4
coordination with the Under Secretary for Science and 5
Technology of the Department, shall, to the extent prac-6
ticable, carry out research and development, including 7
operational testing, of technologies and techniques for en-8
hancing the Department’s support to Federal, State, local, 9
Tribal, and territorial officials relating to countering 10
transnational repression and terrorism threats related to 11
transnational repression, in accordance with applicable 12
constitutional, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties pro-13
tections. 14
‘‘(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 15
‘‘(1) A
GENT OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT .— 16
The term ‘agent of a foreign government’ means an 17
individual or entity that operates subject to the di-18
rection or control of— 19
‘‘(A) a foreign government; or 20
‘‘(B) an official or entity of such foreign 21
government. 22
‘‘(2) F
OREIGN GOVERNMENT .—The term ‘for-23
eign government’ means the government of a foreign 24
country. 25
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‘‘(3) TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION .—The term 1
‘transnational repression’ means an action of a for-2
eign government or an agent of a foreign govern-3
ment that satisfies each of the following: 4
‘‘(A) The action involves— 5
‘‘(i) any effort intended to coerce, har-6
ass, or digitally or physically threaten, in-7
cluding by force or reasonable fear of 8
death or serious bodily injury or imprison-9
ment of a person or an immediate family 10
member of a person, a person to take an 11
action in the interest of such a foreign gov-12
ernment; 13
‘‘(ii) any effort intended to harass or 14
coerce, including by force or fear, a person 15
to forebear from exercising their First 16
Amendment rights or any other right guar-17
anteed to the person by the Constitution or 18
laws of the United States, or to retaliate 19
against a person for having exercised such 20
a right; 21
‘‘(iii) an extrajudicial killing; or 22
‘‘(iv) any act intended to further the 23
efforts specified in clause (i), (ii), or (iii). 24
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‘‘(B) The action is engaged in for or in the 1
interests of such a foreign government. 2
‘‘(C) The action— 3
‘‘(i) occurs, in whole or in part, in the 4
United States; or 5
‘‘(ii) is committed against a United 6
States person. 7
‘‘(4) U
NITED STATES PERSON .—The term 8
‘United States person’ has the meaning given such 9
term in section 1637(d)(10) of the Carl Levin and 10
Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Au-11
thorization Act for Fiscal year 2015 (50 U.S.C. 12
1708(d)(10)).’’. 13
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 14
in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 15
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 16
890D the following new item: 17
‘‘Sec. 890E. Law enforcement support and counter transnational repression
public service announcement campaign.’’.
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