The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2023 aims to enhance the federal government's ability to monitor, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism. It establishes new domestic terrorism components within key agencies, requires joint reporting on white supremacist-related incidents, and mandates anti-terrorism training for law enforcement.
Latest Action
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1649-1650)
AI Summary
Plain-English explanation of this bill
The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2023 aims to enhance the federal government's ability to monitor, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism. It establishes new domestic terrorism components within key agencies, requires joint reporting on white supremacist-related incidents, and mandates anti-terrorism training for law enforcement.
Last updated: 12/29/2025
Official Summary
Congressional Research Service summary
<p><strong></strong><b>Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2023</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The domestic terrorism components of DHS, DOJ, and the FBI must jointly report on domestic terrorism, including white-supremacist-related incidents or attempted incidents.</p> <p>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. </p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>
Key Points
Main provisions of the bill
Creates domestic terrorism components within the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and FBI to focus on monitoring, analyzing, and prosecuting domestic terrorism
Requires the government to jointly report on domestic terrorism, including white supremacist-related incidents
Directs agencies to review and improve anti-terrorism training for federal, state, and local law enforcement
Establishes an interagency task force to combat white supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration of the uniformed services and federal law enforcement
Assigns FBI hate crimes liaisons to field offices to investigate domestic terrorism-related hate crimes
How This Impacts Americans
Potential effects on citizens and communities
If enacted, this bill would enhance the federal government's ability to identify, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism, with a particular focus on white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Law enforcement at all levels would receive improved training to recognize and respond to domestic terrorism threats. The changes could lead to more prosecutions of domestic extremists and better coordination between agencies to address this growing national security concern.
Policy Areas
Primary Policy Area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Scope & Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction Level
federal
Congressional Session
119th Congress
Citation Reference
1591, 119th Congress (2025). "ARCA Act of 2025". Source: Voter's Right Platform. https://votersright.org/bills/118-s-1591