Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2017
Latest action · Sep 28, 2017 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 16, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2017
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 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 global travel targeting and analysis systems; and
- the State Department's watchlisting, identification, and screening systems.
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
- enhance the recipient government's capacity to mitigate the threat of terrorism, infectious disease or natural disaster, protect lawful trade and travel, or enforce intellectual property rights.
DHS shall:
- notify Congress before providing such systems, equipment, or supplies; and
- report to Congress annually through 2022 regarding foreign government efforts to combat terrorist and foreign fighter travel.
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.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 16, 2017 to Jul 28, 2017; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I-AZ | Kyrsten Sinema | Original | Feb 16, 2017 |
| R-TX | Michael T. McCaul | Original | Feb 16, 2017 |
| R-TX | Ted Poe | Mar 16, 2017 | |
| R-AZ | David Schweikert | Mar 23, 2017 | |
| R-CA | Paul Cook | Apr 6, 2017 | |
| R-CA | Dana Rohrabacher | Jun 12, 2017 | |
| R-NC | Robert Pittenger | Jun 12, 2017 | |
| R-SC | Joe Wilson | Jul 18, 2017 | |
| R-TX | Pete Olson | Jul 28, 2017 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Feb 16, 2017Markup Sep 28, 2017 |
| Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee | Referred May 18, 2017Markup Jul 19, 2017Reported Jul 19, 2017 | |
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred Feb 16, 2017 |
| Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 7, 2017 | |
| Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee | Referred Mar 7, 2017 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Feb 16, 2017 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 16, 2017 |
Actions 10
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 28, 2017Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Sep 28, 2017Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jul 19, 2017Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jul 19, 2017Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote .
- May 18, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
- Mar 16, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
- Mar 7, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
- Mar 7, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
- Feb 16, 2017Introduced in House
- Feb 16, 2017Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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.
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Oct 19, 2017H.R. 1196, Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2017As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 28, 2017
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 28, February 16, 2017, page H1306.
Printed hearings 2
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. 115-69 | VARIOUS MEASURES249 pages | Foreign Affairs Committee | Sep 28, 2017 |
| Serial No. 115-44 | FTO PASSPORT REVOCATION ACT OF 2017; AND COUNTERTERRORISM SCREENING AND ASSISTANCE ACT OF 201752 pages | Foreign Affairs Committee | Jul 19, 2017 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 942 | Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2017 | Related bill | Apr 26, 2017 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require a plan to combat international travel by terrorists and foreign fighters, accelerate the transfer of certain border security systems to foreign partner governments, establish minimum international border security standards, authorize the suspension of foreign assistance to countries not making significant efforts to comply with such minimum standards, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2017
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Aviation and airports
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Congressional oversight
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Customs enforcement
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Homeland security
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Intellectual property
- Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
- International Affairs
- International organizations and cooperation
- Natural disasters
- Sanctions
- Terrorism
- Travel and tourism
- Visas and passports
- World health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 16, 2017Introduced 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.
