H.R. 6563

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6563 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6563

To require notifications of changes to policies and procedures 
governing terrorist watchlist and transnational organized crime 
watchlist, and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 10, 2025

Mr. Castro of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary

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A BILL

To require notifications of changes to policies and procedures 
governing terrorist watchlist and transnational organized crime 
watchlist, 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 ``Terrorist Watchlist Modification 
Review Act''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES TO POLICIES OR PROCEDURES 
GOVERNING TERRORIST WATCHLIST AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED 
CRIME WATCHLIST.

(a) Notification of Material Changes.--
(1) Notification required.--The Director of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees notice of any material change to a 
policy or procedure relating to the terrorist watchlist or the 
transnational organized crime watchlist, including any change 
to the policy or procedure for adding or removing a person from 
either watchlist. Each notification under this subsection shall 
include a summary of the material changes to such policy or 
procedure.
(2) Timing of notification.--Each notification required 
under paragraph (1) shall be submitted not later than 30 days 
after the date on which a material change described in 
paragraph (1) takes effect.
(b) Requests by Appropriate Committees.--Not later than 30 days 
after receiving a request from an appropriate congressional committee, 
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to 
such committee all guidance in effect as of the date of the request 
that applies to or governs the use of the terrorist watchlist or the 
transnational organized crime watchlist.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the congressional intelligence committees;
(B) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives;
(C) the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives; and
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
(2) Terrorist watchlist.--The term ``terrorist watchlist'' 
means the Terrorist Screening Dataset or any successor or 
similar watchlist.
(3) Transnational organized crime watchlist.--The term 
``transnational organized crime watchlist'' means the watchlist 
maintained under the Transnational Organized Crime Actor 
Detection Program or any successor or similar watchlist.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT ON UNITED STATES PERSONS ON THE TERRORIST WATCH 
LIST.

(a) Report.--Not later than January 31, 2026, and annually 
thereafter for two years, the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report on known or presumed United States persons who are included on 
the terrorist watchlist.
(b) Contents.--Each report required under subsection (a) shall 
include, with respect to the preceding calendar year, the following 
information:
(1) The total number of persons who were included on the 
terrorist watchlist as of January 1 and the total number of 
such persons included as of December 31.
(2) The total number of known or presumed United States 
persons who were included on the terrorist watchlist as of 
January 1 and the total number of such persons included as of 
December 31, including with respect to each of those dates--
(A) the number of known or presumed United States 
persons who were included on a no fly list;
(B) the number of known or presumed United States 
persons who were included on a selectee list for 
additional screening;
(C) the number of known or presumed United States 
persons who were included on the terrorist watchlist as 
an exception to a reasonable suspicion standard and who 
are not subject to additional screening, but who are 
included on the list to support specific screening 
functions of the Federal Government;
(D) the name of each terrorist organization with 
which the known or presumed United States persons are 
suspected of being affiliated and the number of such 
persons who are suspected of affiliating with each such 
terrorist organization; and
(E) an identification of each Federal agency that 
nominated the United States persons to the terrorist 
watchlist and the number of such persons nominated by 
each Federal agency.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the congressional intelligence committees;
(B) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives;
(C) the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives; and
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
(2) Terrorist watchlist.--The term ``terrorist watchlist'' 
means the Terrorist Screening Dataset or any successor or 
similar watchlist.
(3) United states person.--The term ``United States 
person'' has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801).
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