116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5780 
AN ACT 
To enhance stakeholder outreach to and operational engage-
ment with owners and operators of critical infrastructure 
and other relevant stakeholders by the Cybersecurity and 
Infrastructure Security Agency to bolster security against 
acts of terrorism and other homeland security threats, 
including by maintaining a clearinghouse of security 
guidance, best practices, and other voluntary content de-
veloped by the Agency or aggregated from trusted 
sources, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe Communities Act 
of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. RESPONSIBILITIES OF CISA DIRECTOR RELATING 
TO SECURITY RESOURCES CLEARINGHOUSE. 
Subsection (c) of section 2202 of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 652) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through 
(11) as paragraphs (7) through (12), respectively; 
and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(6) maintain a clearinghouse for owners and 
operators of critical infrastructure and other rel-
evant stakeholders to access security guidance, best 
practices, and other voluntary content developed by 
the Agency in a manner consistent with the require-
ments of section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 
1973 (29 U.S.C. 794d) and the Plain Writing Act 
of 2010 (5 U.S.C. note) or aggregated from trusted 
sources;’’.
(1) Each of the critical infrastructure sectors. 
(2) Critical infrastructure owners and operators 
located in each region in which the Agency main-
tains a field office. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than 90 
days after issuing the stakeholder outreach and oper-
ational engagement strategy required under subsection 
(a), the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 
Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security 
shall issue an implementation plan for the strategy that 
includes the following: 
(1) Strategic objectives and corresponding tasks 
for protective security advisor and cybersecurity ad-
visor workforce development, training, and retention 
plans. 
(2) Projected timelines, benchmarks, and re-
source requirements for such tasks. 
(3) Metrics to evaluate the performance of such 
tasks. 
(e) CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT.—Upon issuance of 
the implementation plan required under subsection (d), 
the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu-
rity Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, 
shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-
ate the stakeholder outreach and operational engagement 
strategy required under subsection (a) and the implemen-
tation plan required under subsection (b), together with 
any other associated legislative or budgetary proposals re-
lating thereto. 
SEC. 4. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY PROTECTIVE SECU-
RITY ADVISORS. 
The Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 
Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security 
shall ensure, to the greatest extent practicable, protective 
security advisors of the Agency are disseminating home-
land security information on voluntary programs and serv-
ices of the Department of Homeland Security, including 
regarding the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, to bol-
ster security and terrorism resilience. 
SEC. 5. PROTECTIVE SECURITY ADVISOR FORCE MULTI-
PLIER PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Cy-
bersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the De-
partment of Homeland Security shall establish a one-year 
pilot program for State, local, Tribal, and territorial law 
enforcement agencies and appropriate government officials 
to be trained by protective security advisors of the Agency
regarding carrying out security vulnerability or terrorism 
risk assessments of facilities. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the com-
pletion of the pilot program under subsection (a), the Di-
rector of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security 
Agency of the Department of Homeland Security shall re-
port on such pilot program to the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 30, 
2020. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5780 
AN ACT 
To enhance stakeholder outreach to and operational 
engagement with owners and operators of critical 
infrastructure and other relevant stakeholders by 
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security 
Agency to bolster security against acts of ter-
rorism and other homeland security threats, in-
cluding by maintaining a clearinghouse of secu-
rity guidance, best practices, and other voluntary 
content developed by the Agency or aggregated 
from trusted sources, and for other purposes.