Sec. 5. Training

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The Secretary of State should make training available to Department of State personnel, including overseas mission leadership, as appropriate, and if it pertains to their countries of assignment, with respect to— tactics and practices used by perpetrators; governments known to employ transnational repression; governments that cooperate with other governments engaged in transnational repression; tools of digital surveillance and other cyber tools used in transnational repression activities; and United States policy priorities.

There is authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary for fiscal year 2026 to develop and implement the curriculum described in paragraph (1). To better recognize and prevent transnational repression, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, civil society, and the business community, shall provide training with respect to— tactics and practices used by perpetrators; governments known to employ transnational repression; which communities and locations in the United States are most vulnerable to transnational repression; tools of digital surveillance and other cyber tools used in transnational repression activities; and United States policy priorities.

Those receiving the training described in paragraph

(1)should be— employees or task force members of— the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and any other employees the Secretary of Homeland Security determines should receive such training; the Department of Justice, including the— Federal Bureau of Investigation; and INTERPOL Washington; and the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the Department of Health and Human Services; other Federal, State, and local law enforcement and municipal officials receiving instruction at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; and appropriate private sector and community partners of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There is authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary for fiscal year 2026 to develop and provide the curriculum and training described in paragraph (1).