Title: Darren Drake Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Darren Drake Act
This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration to disseminate and periodically update best practices for vehicle rental companies and dealers to report suspicious behavior to law enforcement to prevent vehicle ramming and other terrorist attacks.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4942 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4942

  To direct the Transportation Security Administration to develop and 
 disseminate best practices for rental companies and dealers to report 
suspicious behavior to law enforcement agencies at the point of sale of 
  a covered rental vehicle to prevent and mitigate acts of terrorism 
             using motor vehicles, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 31, 2019

    Mr. Gottheimer (for himself and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Transportation Security Administration to develop and 
 disseminate best practices for rental companies and dealers to report 
suspicious behavior to law enforcement agencies at the point of sale of 
  a covered rental vehicle to prevent and mitigate acts of terrorism 
             using motor vehicles, 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 ``Darren Drake Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) From 2013 through 2017, terrorists carried out 25 known 
        vehicle ramming attacks in North America and Western Europe, 
        resulting in 156 fatalities and 790 injuries.
            (2) The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, was 
        designated by the Department of State as a foreign terrorist 
        organization on December 17, 2004, and was designated as a 
        Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) on October 15, 
        2004.
            (3) Al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State have promoted vehicle 
        attacks for years, including in Inspire, the online magazine of 
        al-Qa'ida and in Rumiya, the magazine of the Islamic State.
            (4) The Islamic State calls upon its followers to conduct 
        vehicle ramming attacks by buying, renting, stealing, or 
        borrowing trucks and targeting large outdoor events, crowded 
        pedestrian streets, outdoor markets and rallies.
            (5) On November 21, 2017, a grand jury in the Southern 
        District of New York returned a 22-count indictment against the 
        perpetrator of an alleged vehicular terrorist attack carried 
        out in the name of the designated foreign terrorist 
        organization the Islamic State in lower Manhattan on October 
        31, 2017, which killed eight people, including Darren Drake of 
        New Milford, New Jersey, and injured 12 more.
            (6) On March 27, 2019, an Ohio man plead guilty to 29 
        Federal hate crimes for driving a car into a crowd of counter-
        protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, 
        killing one woman and injuring dozens.
            (7) The automotive sale and rental industry has been a 
        leader in strengthening security measures, working with 
        government agencies and officials including the Department of 
        Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, and 
        the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and continuing to innovate 
        and improve to better protect its customers, employees, assets, 
        and the general public.

SEC. 3. TSA BEST PRACTICES RELATED TO CERTAIN INFORMATION COLLECTED BY 
              RENTAL COMPANIES AND DEALERS.

    (a) Development and Dissemination.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the 
        Transportation Security Administration shall develop and 
        disseminate best practices for rental companies and dealers to 
        report suspicious behavior to law enforcement agencies at the 
        point of sale of a covered rental vehicle.
            (2) Consultation; updates.--The Administrator of the 
        Transportation Security Administration shall develop and, as 
        necessary, update the best practices described in paragraph (1) 
        after consultation with relevant rental industry stakeholders.
    (b) Report to Congress.--Not later than one year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the 
Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall 
jointly submit to Congress a report on the implementation of this 
section, including an assessment of--
            (1) the impact of the best practices described in 
        subsection (a) on efforts to protect the United States against 
        terrorist attacks; and
            (2) ways to improve and expand cooperation and engagement 
        between--
                    (A) the Department of Homeland Security and the 
                Transportation Security Administration; and
                    (B) rental companies, dealers, and other relevant 
                rental industry stakeholders.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``covered rental 
vehicle'', ``dealer'', and ``rental company'' have the meanings given 
those terms in section 30102 of title 49, United States Code.
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