119-hr4997

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4997 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4997

 To amend the Omnibus Diplomatic Security an Antiterrorism Act of 1986 
to require additional specific, mandatory, counterintelligence training 
for certain Diplomatic Security special agents assigned to high threat 
 posts, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 August 19, 2025

 Mr. Lawler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Foreign Affairs

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 A BILL

 To amend the Omnibus Diplomatic Security an Antiterrorism Act of 1986 
to require additional specific, mandatory, counterintelligence training 
for certain Diplomatic Security special agents assigned to high threat 
 posts, 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 ``Modernize Diplomatic Security 
Training Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL COUNTERINTELLIGENCE TRAINING.

    (a) Addition of Training.--Title IV of the Omnibus Diplomatic 
Security an Antiterrorism Act of 1986 (22 U.S.C. 4851 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:

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SEC. 418. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE TRAINING FOR CERTAIN DIPLOMATIC 
 SECURITY SPECIAL AGENTS.

 ``Diplomatic Security special agents (as authorized pursuant to 

section 37 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 
U.S.C. 2709)) who are assigned to positions with a primary 
counterintelligence role or assigned to a high risk, high threat post 
shall receive specific, substantive, mandatory counterintelligence 
training from the Office of Counterintelligence of the Department of 
State.''.

    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for the Omnibus 
Diplomatic Security an Antiterrorism Act of 1986 is amended by 
inserting in numerical sequence the following:

Sec. 418. Counter-intelligence training for certain Diplomatic Security 
 special agents.
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