No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act
Latest action · Apr 28, 2016 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 11, 2015
- Passed HouseApr 27, 2016
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on April 15, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Government Accountability Office to study and report to Congress within one year on: (1) whether past weaknesses in the operation and administration of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) and its subsets (e.g., the No Fly list) have been addressed, and (2) the extent to which additional changes may address or mitigate existing vulnerabilities.
The study and report must include, with respect to the TSDB, information on: (1) timely integration of information, (2) increased demands for information, (3) accessibility to relevant agencies, and (4) identification of known or suspected terrorists by users.
Cosponsors 23
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 11, 2015 to Jan 28, 2016; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Dec 11, 2015 |
| R-TX | John Ratcliffe | Original | Dec 11, 2015 |
| R-VA | Bob Goodlatte | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| D-LA | Cedric L. Richmond | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| R-WI | F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| I-AZ | Kyrsten Sinema | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| D-PR | Pedro R. Pierluisi | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| R-GA | Earl L. "Buddy" Carter | Dec 16, 2015 | |
| D-TX | Filemon Vela | Dec 16, 2015 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Dec 16, 2015 | |
| R-TX | Michael C. Burgess | Dec 16, 2015 | |
| R-ID | Raul R. Labrador | Dec 16, 2015 | |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Dec 17, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Hakeem S. Jeffries | Dec 17, 2015 | |
| R-MI | Mike Bishop | Dec 17, 2015 | |
| R-TX | Blake Farenthold | Dec 18, 2015 | |
| R-OH | Steve Chabot | Dec 18, 2015 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Dec 18, 2015 | |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | Jan 11, 2016 | |
| D-MI | Daniel T. Kildee | Jan 28, 2016 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Dingell | Jan 28, 2016 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Dec 11, 2015Markup Jan 12, 2016Reported Apr 15, 2016 |
| Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee | Referred Dec 12, 2015Discharged Jan 8, 2016 | |
| Senate | Judiciary Committee | Referred Apr 28, 2016 |
Actions 14
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 28, 2016Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Apr 27, 2016Mr. Goodlatte moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Apr 27, 2016Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2019-2022)
- Apr 27, 2016DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4240.
- Apr 27, 2016Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2020)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H2019–H2022Text printed H2019 | Bob Goodlatte R-VA, John Conyers, Jr. D-MI, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX | Apr 27, 2016 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jan 29, 2016H.R. 4240, No Fly for Foreign Fighters ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on January 12, 2016
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 180, December 11, 2015, page H9307.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 114-83 | WORLDWIDE THREATS TO THE HOMELAND: ISIS AND THE NEW WAVE OF TERROR92 pages | Homeland Security Committee | Jul 14, 2016 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require an independent review of the operation and administration of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and subsets of the TSDB, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 28, 2016Referred in Senate
- Apr 27, 2016Engrossed in House
- Apr 15, 2016Reported in House
- Dec 11, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
