I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2922 
To reform and improve the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the 
Office of Emergency Communications, and the Office of Health Affairs 
of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 15, 2017 
Mr. DONOVAN (for himself, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. KING of New York, and Mr. 
FITZPATRICK) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To reform and improve the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, the Office of Emergency Communications, and 
the Office of Health Affairs of the Department of Home-
land Security, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Promoting Resilience and Efficiency in Preparing for At-
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tacks and Responding to Emergencies Act’’ or the ‘‘PRE-
PARE Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—GRANTS, TRAINING, EXERCISES, AND COORDINATION 
Sec. 101. Urban Area Security Initiative. 
Sec. 102. State Homeland Security Grant Program. 
Sec. 103. Grants to directly eligible tribes. 
Sec. 104. Law enforcement terrorism prevention. 
Sec. 105. Prioritization. 
Sec. 106. Allowable uses. 
Sec. 107. Approval of certain equipment. 
Sec. 108. Memoranda of understanding. 
Sec. 109. Grants metrics. 
Sec. 110. Grant management best practices. 
Sec. 111. Prohibition on consolidation. 
Sec. 112. Maintenance of grant investments. 
Sec. 113. Transit security grant program. 
Sec. 114. Port security grant program. 
Sec. 115. National Domestic Preparedness Consortium. 
Sec. 116. Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium. 
Sec. 117. Emergency support functions. 
Sec. 118. Review of National Incident Management System. 
Sec. 119. Remedial action management program. 
Sec. 120. Cyber preparedness. 
Sec. 121. Major metropolitan area counterterrorism training and exercise grant 
program. 
Sec. 122. Center for Domestic Preparedness. 
TITLE II—COMMUNICATIONS 
Sec. 201. Office of Emergency Communications. 
Sec. 202. Responsibilities of Office of Emergency Communications Director. 
Sec. 203. Annual reporting on activities of the Office of Emergency Commu-
nications. 
Sec. 204. National Emergency Communications Plan. 
Sec. 205. Technical edit. 
Sec. 206. Public Safety Broadband Network. 
Sec. 207. Communications training. 
TITLE III—MEDICAL PREPAREDNESS 
Sec. 301. Chief Medical Officer. 
Sec. 302. Medical Countermeasures Program. 
TITLE IV—MANAGEMENT 
Sec. 401. Mission support. 
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