Sec. 514. Propaganda prohibited
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Management of the Department, shall— issue a Department-wide directive prohibiting personnel from engaging in propaganda whether internally or externally, including with respect to public-facing materials; and establish a process to enforce the directive required under paragraph (1). Not later than September 30, 2022, the Inspector General of the Department shall review— the internal and external communications within the Department to determine if there is evidence of the Department engaging in propaganda with respect to— the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooting; the 2020 protests in Portland, Oregon; or the issuance of Executive Order 13769; and the implementation of the Department-wide directive and oversight process required under subsection (a).
After the completion of the review required under paragraph (1), the Inspector General of the Department shall issue recommendations, as appropriate, to strengthen protections against the engagement of propaganda within the Department. In this section, the term propaganda means information originated or disseminated through the use of Departmental resources with the intent to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view, including— materials designed to support or defeat the enactment of legislation before Congress or any State or local legislature or legislative body; materials designed to support or defeat proposed or pending regulation, administrative action, or order issued by the executive branch, including any State or local government; materials self-aggrandizing or overly publicizing and emphasizing the importance of the agency of the Department or departmental activity at issue; materials that are prepared by the agency at issue or its contractors at the behest of the agency and circulated as the ostensible position of parties outside the agency without disclosure that the information originated with the Department; and purely partisan materials, including materials designed to aid a particular political party or candidate subject to Federal prohibitions with respect to Federal employees.
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Sec. 514
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