S. 4255: Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022

117th Congress · introduced 2022-05-18 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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Where it came from: introduced 2022-05-18 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022

Plain summary

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022 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. Additionally, DOJ must make training on prosecuting domestic terrorism available to its prosecutors and to assistant U.S. attorneys. 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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Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022

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Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] · 24 cosponsors

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Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Patty Murray (D-WA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Jack Reed (D-RI), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)

Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] reported raising $84,084 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117s4255.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/s>

Record fed-us-cong117-s4255 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117