Title: PREVENT Act of 2018
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Preventing Radical Extremist's Violent Endeavors Now and Tomorrow Act of 2018 or the PREVENT Act of 2018
This bill expands the duties of the Office for State and Local Government Coordination in the Department of Homeland Security to include, for purposes of countering violent extremist threats: (1) providing training from specially trained clinical social workers, psychologists, religious, community leaders, and law enforcement personnel to assist local efforts at securing the homeland; and (2) in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, providing to state and local governments specialists, analysts, and agents trained to counter terrorism to assist local efforts at responding to such threats.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6126 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6126

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide support to State 
  and local governments in their efforts to counter violent extremist 
                                threats.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2018

 Mr. Aguilar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide support to State 
  and local governments in their efforts to counter violent extremist 
                                threats.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Radical Extremist's 
Violent Endeavors Now and Tomorrow Act of 2018'' or the ``PREVENT Act 
of 2018''.

SEC. 2. SUPPORT TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN THEIR EFFORTS TO 
              COUNTER VIOLENT EXTREMIST THREATS.

    Section 801(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
361(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) for the purposes of countering violent extremist 
        threats--
                    ``(A) provide training from specially trained 
                clinical social workers, psychologists, religious, 
                community leaders, and law enforcement personnel, to 
                assist local efforts at securing the homeland; and
                    ``(B) in coordination with the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation, provide to State and local governments 
                specialists, analysts, and agents trained to counter 
                terrorism to assist, in the manner and degree 
                necessary, local efforts at responding to such 
                threats.''.
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