[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4240 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4240

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2015

     Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself, Mr. Ratcliffe, and Mr. Conyers) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
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.

    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 ``No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act''.

SEC. 2. GAO STUDY ON THE TERRORIST SCREENING DATABASE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 18 months after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall conduct a study and submit, to the Committee on the Judiciary of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate, a report on--
            (1) whether past weaknesses in the operation and 
        administration of the Terrorist Screening Database (hereinafter 
        referred to as the ``TSDB'') and subsets of the TSDB have been 
        addressed; and
            (2) the extent to which existing vulnerabilities to the 
        United States may be addressed or mitigated through additional 
        changes to the TSDB and subsets of the TSDB, thereby enhancing 
        America's security and defenses.
    (b) Required Information.--The study and report under subsection 
(a) shall include information on the extent to which--
            (1) information is being integrated into the TSDB from all 
        relevant sources across the government in a timely manner;
            (2) agencies are able to comply with increased demands for 
        information to improve the TSDB;
            (3) the TSDB, and relevant subsets of the TSDB, are 
        accessible to agencies, authorities, and other entities, as 
        appropriate; and
            (4) the TSDB is capable of enabling users to identify known 
        or suspected terrorists in the most timely and comprehensive 
        manner possible.
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