Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act”.
No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act
AN ACT
To require an independent review of the operation and administration of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and subsets of the TSDB, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 GAO study on the Terrorist Screening Database
In general— Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study and submit, to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, a report on—
whether past weaknesses in the operation and administration of the Terrorist Screening Database (hereinafter referred to as the “TSDB”) and subsets of the TSDB have been addressed; and
the extent to which existing vulnerabilities to the United States may be addressed or mitigated through additional changes to the TSDB and subsets of the TSDB, thereby enhancing America’s security and defenses.
Required information— The study and report under subsection (a) shall include information on the extent to which—
information is being integrated into the TSDB from all relevant sources across the government in a timely manner;
agencies are able to comply with increased demands for information to improve the TSDB;
the TSDB, and relevant subsets of the TSDB, are accessible to agencies, authorities, and other entities, as appropriate; and
the TSDB is capable of enabling users to identify known or suspected terrorists in the most timely and comprehensive manner possible.