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H.R. 5602: Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020

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H.R. 5602: Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020

116th Congress · introduced 2020-01-14 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2020-01-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020

Plain summary

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020 This bill establishes new requirements to expand the availability of information on domestic terrorism, as well as the relationship between domestic terrorism and hate crimes. It authorizes domestic terrorism components within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to monitor, analyze, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism. The domestic terrorism components of DHS, DOJ, and the FBI must jointly report on domestic terrorism, including white-supremacist-related incidents or attempted incidents. DHS, DOJ, and the FBI must review the anti-terrorism training and resource programs of their agencies that are provided to federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. It creates an interagency task force to analyze and combat white supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration of the uniformed services and federal law enforcement agencies. Finally, it directs the FBI to assign a special agent or hate crimes liaison to each field office to investigate hate crimes incidents with a nexus to domestic terrorism.

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Official text

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10] · 179 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 5602, Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020 (2020-09-22)

Cosponsors on this site

Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), J. Luis Correa (D-CA), Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ed Case (D-HI), Grace Meng (D-NY), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI), Sean Casten (D-IL), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Angie Craig (D-MN), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY) and 119 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10] reported raising $3.7 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Record fed-us-cong116-hr5602 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116