Title: Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel Exercise Act of 2019
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel Exercise Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to develop and conduct an exercise related to the detection and prevention of terrorist and foreign fighter travel.
The bill requires the national exercise program (a program to test and evaluate the national preparedness goal, National Incident Management System, National Response Plan, and other related plans and strategies) to include emerging threats.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1590 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1590

To require an exercise related to terrorist and foreign fighter travel, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2019

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To require an exercise related to terrorist and foreign fighter travel, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel 
Exercise Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. EXERCISE ON TERRORIST AND FOREIGN FIGHTER TRAVEL.

    (a) In General.--In addition to, or as part of exercise programs 
currently carried out by the Department of Homeland Security, to 
enhance domestic preparedness for and collective response to terrorism, 
promote the dissemination of homeland security information, and test 
the security posture of the United States, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, through appropriate offices and components of the Department 
and in coordination with the heads of appropriate Federal departments 
and agencies, shall develop and conduct an exercise related to the 
detection and prevention of terrorist and foreign fighter travel.
    (b) Exercise Requirements.--The exercise required under subsection 
(a) shall include--
            (1) a scenario involving--
                    (A) persons traveling from the United States to 
                join or provide material support or resources to a 
                terrorist organization abroad; and
                    (B) terrorist infiltration into the United States, 
                including by United States citizens and foreign 
                nationals;
            (2) coordination with appropriate Federal departments and 
        agencies, foreign governments, and State, local, Tribal, and 
        territorial agencies, including law enforcement agencies and 
        representatives from the National Network of Fusion Centers; 
        and
            (3) coordination with appropriate private sector and 
        community stakeholders.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the completion of the 
exercise required under subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall, consistent with the protection of classified 
information, submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate an after-action report presenting 
the initial findings of such exercise, plans for quickly incorporating 
lessons learned into future operations of the Department of Homeland 
Security, and any proposed legislative changes informed by such 
exercise.
    (d) Definition.--In this section, the term ``material support or 
resources'' has the meaning given such term in section 2339A of title 
18, United States Code.

SEC. 3. EMERGING THREATS IN THE NATIONAL EXERCISE PROGRAM.

    Clause (i) of section 648(b)(2)(A) of the Post-Katrina Emergency 
Management Reform Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 748(b)(2)) is amended by 
inserting ``and emerging'' after ``credible''.
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