[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4555 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4555

To authorize the participation in overseas interagency counterterrorism 
 task forces of personnel of the Department of Homeland Security, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 2017

 Mr. Rutherford (for himself, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Gallagher, 
Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Garrett, Mr. McCaul, and Mr. Katko) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the participation in overseas interagency counterterrorism 
 task forces of personnel of the Department of Homeland Security, 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 ``DHS Interagency Counterterrorism 
Task Force Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. OVERSEAS INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM TASK FORCE PARTICIPATION.

    Section 102 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 112) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(h) Coordination With Other Federal Departments and Agencies 
Overseas.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary is authorized to assign 
        Department personnel to participate in overseas interagency 
        counterterrorism task forces to--
                    ``(A) facilitate the sharing of counterterrorism 
                information; and
                    ``(B) combat the threat of terrorism and associated 
                risks to the United States stemming from overseas 
                sources of conflict or terrorism,
        as determined by the Secretary.
            ``(2) Personnel.--In carrying out this subsection, the 
        Secretary may assign personnel from any component of the 
        Department the Secretary determines necessary to participate in 
        the overseas counterterrorism task forces referred to in 
        paragraph (1).''.
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