117 HR 1540 IH: Reporting Efficiently to Proper Officials in Response to Terrorism Act of 2021 U.S. House of Representatives 2021-03-03 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I117th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 1540IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESMarch 3, 2021Mr. Aguilar (for himself, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Payne, Miss Rice of New York, Mrs. Luria, Mr. Correa, Mrs. Napolitano, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Panetta, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Carson, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Levin of California, Mr. Kahele, Ms. Meng, Mr. Langevin, and Ms. Scanlon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland SecurityA BILLTo provide for joint reports by relevant Federal agencies to Congress regarding incidents of terrorism, and for other purposes.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Reporting Efficiently to Proper Officials in Response to Terrorism Act of 2021 or the REPORT Act.

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Duty to report

(a)

Duty imposed

Whenever an incident of terrorism occurs in the United States, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to submit to Congress, not later than upon completion of the investigation relating to such incident by the primary United States Government agency conducting such investigation, an unclassified report (which may be accompanied by a classified annex) concerning such incident.(b)

Content of reports

A report under this section shall contain—(1)a statement of the facts of the incident of terrorism that is the subject of such report, as known at the time of such report; and(2)any recommendations for changes in practices or law, consistent with the Constitution, with particular attention to changes that could help prevent future incidents of terrorism.(c)

Definition

In this section, the term incident of terrorism means an event declared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be an act of terrorism.