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<item congress="115" measure-type="hr" measure-number="4227" measure-id="id115hr4227" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2017-11-02" update-date="2019-01-07">
<title>Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018</title>
<summary summary-id="id115hr4227v49" currentChamber="BOTH" update-date="2019-01-07">
<action-date>2018-12-31</action-date>
<action-desc>Public Law</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018</strong></p> <p>(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): (1) to assess the activities that DHS is undertaking to support emergency response providers and the private sector to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the threat of vehicular terrorism; and (2) based on such assessment, to develop and submit to the congressional homeland security committees a strategy to improve its efforts to support such providers and the private sector in that regard. </p> <p> The strategy shall include:</p> <ul> <li> an examination of the current threat of vehicular terrorism;</li> <li>methods to improve DHS information sharing activities with such providers and the private sector regarding best practices to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the increasing threat of vehicular terrorism; and</li> <li>training activities that DHS can provide for such providers to prevent and respond to such threat.</li> </ul> <ul> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id115hr4227v36" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2018-06-20">
<action-date>2018-03-22</action-date>
<action-desc>Passed House amended</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018</strong></p> <p>(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): (1) to assess the activities that DHS is undertaking to support emergency response providers and the private sector to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the threat of vehicular terrorism; and (2) based on such assessment, to develop and submit to the congressional homeland security committees a strategy to improve its efforts to support such providers and the private sector in that regard. </p> <p> The strategy shall include:</p> <ul> <li> an examination of the current threat of vehicular terrorism;</li> <li>methods to improve DHS information sharing activities with such providers and the private sector regarding best practices to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the increasing threat of vehicular terrorism; and</li> <li>training activities that DHS can provide for such providers to prevent and respond to such threat.</li> </ul> <ul> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id115hr4227v17" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2018-06-20">
<action-date>2018-03-19</action-date>
<action-desc>Reported to House with amendment(s)</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018</strong></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): (1) to assess the activities that DHS is undertaking to support emergency response providers and the private sector to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the threat of vehicular terrorism; and (2) based on such assessment, to develop and submit to the congressional homeland security committees a strategy to improve its efforts to support such providers and the private sector in that regard. </p> <p> The strategy shall include:</p> <ul> <li> an examination of the current threat of vehicular terrorism;</li> <li>methods to improve DHS information sharing activities with such providers and the private sector regarding best practices to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the increasing threat of vehicular terrorism; and</li> <li>training activities that DHS can provide for such providers to prevent and respond to such threat.</li> </ul> <ul> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id115hr4227v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2018-01-24">
<action-date>2017-11-02</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2017</strong></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) examine what actions DHS is undertaking to combat the threat of vehicular terrorism, and (2) report to Congress.</p> <p> The report should outline examinations of:</p> <ul> <li> the current threat level for vehicular terrorism, </li> <li> what DHS is currently doing to guard against vehicular terrorism, </li> <li> how the threat of vehicular terrorism may be mitigated, </li> <li> the extent to which DHS is doing any outreach or training with private sector partners in response to such threat, and</li> <li> any actions that Congress can take to help DHS mitigate the threat.</li> </ul> <ul> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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