SAFE VISITS Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill adds Homeland Security Act section 210H. Within 180 days and annually afterward, DHS must send Congress a threat analysis, including potential terrorism threats, based on reports from state, local, Tribal, or territorial officials or employees about known visits by foreign nationals seeking meetings or access to nonpublic government information, facilities, programs, or systems. DHS must disseminate guidance based on the analysis. The analysis must describe high-risk targets, trends from fusion-center vetting requests, and mitigation actions. If DHS identifies a particular official, employee, information set, facility, program, or system as a high-risk target, it must conduct outreach, provide classified or unclassified information at the lowest possible level, help vet the visiting foreign national, and give specific mitigation guidance. DHS must request a debriefing within 30 days after assisted visits and annually report its outreach and vetting assistance.
Who Benefits and How
State governments, local governments, Tribal governments, territorial governments, fusion centers, and public employees benefit from DHS threat guidance, vetting support, and debriefing loops for foreign-national visits that may target sensitive people or systems. Congressional homeland security committees benefit from annual threat-analysis and outreach reports.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DHS must collect reports, analyze trends, produce annual congressional threat analyses, issue guidance, conduct tailored outreach, provide vetting assistance, request post-visit debriefings within 30 days, and submit annual outreach reports. State, local, Tribal, and territorial hosts may need to provide vetting request information and debrief DHS after assisted visits.
Key Provisions
- Requires DHS within 180 days and annually thereafter to report foreign-national visit threat analyses to congressional homeland security committees.
- Directs DHS guidance to cover high-risk SLTT government targets, fusion-center trends, and mitigation steps for officials, information, facilities, programs, or systems.
- Requires tailored outreach, lowest-level classified or unclassified information, vetting assistance, and specific mitigation guidance for high-risk visits.
- Requires DHS to request post-visit debriefings within 30 days and annually describe outreach and vetting assistance.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires DHS to analyze and brief state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments on threats from visiting foreign nationals seeking access to officials, information, facilities, programs, or systems, and to provide tailored vetting help for high-risk visits.
Key Policy Areas
Homeland Security, State & Local Government, National Security
Primary Purpose
Requires DHS to analyze and brief state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments on threats from visiting foreign nationals seeking access to officials, information, facilities, programs, or systems, and to provide tailored vetting help for high-risk visits.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- State governments
- Local governments
- Tribal governments
- Territorial governments
- Fusion centers
- Congressional homeland security committees
Identified Costs
- Department of Homeland Security
- State host agencies
- Local host agencies
- Tribal host agencies
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedOrdered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: …
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Mr. Goldman of New York (for himself and Mr. Thompson …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Local governments, Local host agencies, State governments
Positive-direction: Local governments, State governments, Territorial governments
Negative-direction: Local host agencies
Congressional homeland security committees, Department of Homeland Security
Positive-direction: Congressional homeland security committees
Negative-direction: Department of Homeland Security
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "committees"
- → House and Senate homeland security committees
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Data or materials collected, possessed, or prepared by an SLTT government that are not intended for public disclosure or general use.
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