[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4239 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4239

To require intelligence community reporting on foreign fighter flows to 
     and from terrorist safe havens abroad, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2015

     Mr. LoBiondo (for himself, Mr. Hurd of Texas, Mr. Swalwell of 
California, Mr. Katko, Ms. McSally, Mr. Loudermilk, and Mr. Ratcliffe) 
    introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Select 
              Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)

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                                 A BILL


 
To require intelligence community reporting on foreign fighter flows to 
     and from terrorist safe havens abroad, 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 ``Tracking Foreign Fighters in 
Terrorist Safe Havens Act''.

SEC. 2. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY REPORTING TO CONGRESS ON FOREIGN FIGHTER 
              FLOWS.

    (a) Reports Required.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the Director of 
National Intelligence, consistent with the protection of intelligence 
sources and methods, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report on foreign fighter flows to and from terrorist safe 
havens abroad.
    (b) Contents.--Each report submitted under subsection (a) shall 
include, with respect to each terrorist safe haven, the following:
            (1) The total number of foreign fighters who have traveled 
        or are suspected of having traveled to the terrorist safe haven 
        since 2011, including the countries of origin of such foreign 
        fighters.
            (2) The total number of United States citizens present in 
        the terrorist safe haven.
            (3) The total number of foreign fighters who have left the 
        terrorist safe haven or whose whereabouts are unknown.
    (c) Form.--The reports submitted under subsection (a) may be 
submitted in classified form.
    (d) Sunset.--The requirement to submit reports under subsection (a) 
shall terminate on the date that is two years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
    (e) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
            (1) in the Senate--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services;
                    (B) the Select Committee on Intelligence;
                    (C) the Committee on the Judiciary;
                    (D) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs;
                    (E) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
                Affairs;
                    (F) the Committee on Foreign Relations; and
                    (G) the Committee on Appropriations; and
            (2) in the House of Representatives--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services;
                    (B) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence;
                    (C) the Committee on the Judiciary;
                    (D) the Committee on Homeland Security;
                    (E) the Committee on Financial Services;
                    (F) the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and
                    (G) the Committee on Appropriations.
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