HR 708
Passed a chamber
Directs the Department of Homeland Security to create a working group that examines and reports on threats from the Chinese Communist Party involving terrorism, cybersecurity, border and port security, and transportation security.
Official title: SHIELD Against CCP Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
23-JAN-2025
Referred
23-JAN-2025
Passed
10-MAR-2025
Senate
Received
11-MAR-2025
- Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish the working group within 180 days of enactment, led by a Director who reports to the Secretary.
- Directs the group to review efforts against immigration system exploitation, predatory trade practices, fentanyl trafficking, and Chinese Money Laundering Organizations.
- Requires annual threat assessments to Congress for five years, with an unclassified version posted publicly, plus a Comptroller General review of implementation.
- Terminates the working group seven years after it is established.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (23-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 10-MAR-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (House)
- Financial Services Committee (House)
- Ways and Means Committee (House)
- Homeland Security Committee (House)
- Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
Immigration
■ 7 R■ 1 D
7 Republicans
1 Democrat