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The bill aims to improve local responsiveness and transparency by moving NTER into a DHS office focused on state and local partners and shifting funding out of intelligence appropriations, but it risks privacy harms, reduced access to classified intelligence, and budgetary friction that could impair services or oversight.
State, local, Tribal, and territorial (SLTT) law enforcement will retain NTER threat‑assessment services and gain clearer responsibility and coordination for identifying and reporting targeted‑violence threats, helping sustain local public‑safety capabilities.
Transferring NTER management to DHS's Office for State and Local Law Enforcement aligns the program with partner‑facing offices, which should improve day‑to‑day coordination and responsiveness to local needs.
The bill requires recurring progress reports to House and Senate homeland security committees, increasing transparency and congressional oversight of the transfer and its effects on stakeholders.
Communities (including tribal communities) and local residents may face increased privacy and civil‑liberties risks because moving control and reporting to SLTT law‑enforcement offices and away from intelligence channels raises questions about oversight and data handling.
Shifting management and funding away from National Intelligence Program channels could reduce SLTT partners' access to classified intelligence and complicate interagency information sharing, potentially weakening threat assessments.
Reallocating NIP-funded resources into DHS accounts or competing DHS grants could create budget gaps, introduce grant competition, and reduce resources available to national intelligence priorities, risking delayed or reduced services.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Moves DHS’s NTER program from the intelligence office to the office focused on state and local law enforcement, ends NIP funding for NTER after transfer, and requires new non‑NIP funding and progress reports.
Introduced March 3, 2026 by Gabe Evans · Last progress March 3, 2026
Transfers the Department of Homeland Security’s program that helps State, local, Tribal, and territorial (SLTT) partners identify and report targeted-violence threats from the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis to the DHS Office for State and Local Law Enforcement, requires moving personnel, assets, records, and funds needed for continued operations, and stops use of National Intelligence Program (NIP) funds for that program after the transfer. The department must identify alternative non‑NIP funding sources, ensure no loss of services or capabilities for SLTT partners, and provide periodic progress reports to congressional homeland security committees.