NOTIFICATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES TO POLICIES OR PROCEDURES GOVERNING TERRORIST WATCHLIST AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME WATCHLIST.

SEC. 6522. [28 U.S.C. 532 note] NOTIFICATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES TO POLICIES OR PROCEDURES GOVERNING TERRORIST WATCHLIST AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME WATCHLIST. (a) Notification of Material Changes.— (1) Notification required.—The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees notice of any material change to a policy or procedure relating to the terrorist watchlist or the transnational organized crime watchlist, including any change to the policy or procedure for adding or removing a person from either watchlist. Each notification under this subsection shall include a summary of the material changes to such policy or procedure. (2) Timing of notification.—Each notification required under paragraph (1) shall be submitted not later than 30 days after the date on which a material change described in paragraph (1) takes effect. (b) Requests by Appropriate Committees.—Not later than 30 days after receiving a request from an appropriate congressional committee, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to such committee all guidance in effect as of the date of the request that applies to or governs the use of the terrorist watchlist or the transnational organized crime watchlist. (c) Definitions.—In this section: (1) Appropriate congressional committees.—The term “appropriate congressional committees” means— (A) the congressional intelligence committees; (B) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives; (C) the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives; and (D) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. (2) Terrorist watchlist.—The term “terrorist watchlist” means the Terrorist Screening Dataset or any successor or similar watchlist. (3) Transnational organized crime watchlist.—The term “transnational organized crime watchlist” means the watchlist maintained under the Transnational Organized Crime Actor Detection Program or any successor or similar watchlist.