Sec. 317. Counterterrorism and targeted violence strategy
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans of the Department, shall develop, disseminate, and implement a Department-wide directive to update or replace the strategic framework relating to countering terrorism and targeted violence, as issued by the Department in September 2019, and associated implementation plans. The strategic framework required under paragraph
(1)shall— address the current threat environment for domestic terrorism, international terrorism, targeted violence, and emerging threats, including violent white supremacist extremism; and specify how the prevention and preparedness activities of the Department address such threat environment. Not later than two years after the date of the implementation of the directive required under subsection (a), the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans of the Department shall review the effectiveness of such directive relating to the associated strategic framework and implementation plans. In this section: The term targeted violence means any incident of violence in which an attacker selected a particular target in order to inflict mass injury or death without a clearly discernible political or ideological motivation beyond mass injury or death. The term white supremacist extremism means an ideology that seeks, wholly or in part, through unlawful acts of force or violence, to support a belief in the intellectual or moral superiority of the white race over other races.