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(Sec. 2) This bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the U.S. government must ensure that capacity-building assistance to combat terrorist travel is coordinated among departments and agencies as well as with foreign implementing partners, and (2) such assistance should be prioritized for the highest-risk countries for travel by terrorists and foreign fighters.
The Department of State shall submit to Congress biennially a foreign partner engagement plan that catalogues existing capacity-building initiatives abroad to combat travel by terrorists and foreign fighters and identifies areas for adjustment to align efforts with risk-based priorities.
The plan shall be developed in coordination with all relevant U.S. government departments and agencies.
The plan shall:
include a risk assessment of each country that includes identification of the number of U.S.-bound flights that originate from last points of departure in the country, visa waiver program status or visa application and denial rates, and the country's overall terror threat environment;
(Sec. 3) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the State Department shall accelerate the provision of appropriate versions of the following systems to foreign governments:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Automated Targeting System--Global, and
Prioritization shall be given to high- and medium-risk countries.
DHS may provide, with specified exceptions, excess DHS nonlethal equipment and supplies (as well as related training) to a foreign government if that would:
further U.S. homeland security interests; and
DHS and the State Department shall notify Congress before providing such systems, equipment, or supplies.
A notification shall include:
the vulnerability to be mitigated;
House Mar 21, 2016
Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016
Passed · Two-thirds required
371 Yea 2 Nay 60 not voting
Crossed both parties 2 of 373 voting members broke with their own party: 2 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 4314 and vote against it. 5 signed when it was filed.
(Sec. 4) The State Department shall: (1) report to Congress annually through 2021 regarding foreign government efforts to combat terrorist and foreign fighter travel, and (2) incorporate the report into the annual country reports on terrorism.
The State Department may suspend non-humanitarian, non-trade-related foreign assistance to a foreign country identified in such a report as a country to which the minimum standards for serious and sustained efforts to combat terrorist and foreign fighter travel are applicable but whose government is not fully complying with such standards and is not making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance.
(Sec. 6) No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 4314 as passed House amended on Mar 21, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
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