Title: REPORT Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Reporting Efficiently to Proper Officials in Response to Terrorism Act of 2021 or the REPORT Act
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whenever an incident of terrorism occurs in the United States, to submit to Congress an unclassified report upon completion of the investigation by the primary U.S. government agency conducting the investigation concerning the incident.
Such a report shall contain (1) a statement of the facts of the incident that are known at the time of such report; and (2) any recommendations for changes in practices or law, consistent with the Constitution, with particular attention to changes that could help prevent future incidents of terrorism.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1540 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1540

 To provide for joint reports by relevant Federal agencies to Congress 
       regarding incidents of terrorism, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2021

Mr. Aguilar (for himself, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Payne, Miss Rice 
 of New York, Mrs. Luria, Mr. Correa, Mrs. Napolitano, Mrs. Fletcher, 
   Mr. Lieu, Mr. Panetta, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Vargas, Mr. 
  Moulton, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Carson, Mr. 
 Cooper, Mr. Levin of California, Mr. Kahele, Ms. Meng, Mr. Langevin, 
 and Ms. Scanlon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for joint reports by relevant Federal agencies to Congress 
       regarding incidents of terrorism, 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 ``Reporting Efficiently to Proper 
Officials in Response to Terrorism Act of 2021'' or the ``REPORT Act''.

SEC. 2. DUTY TO REPORT.

    (a) Duty Imposed.--Whenever an incident of terrorism occurs in the 
United States, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Director of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to submit to Congress, not later 
than upon completion of the investigation relating to such incident by 
the primary United States Government agency conducting such 
investigation, an unclassified report (which may be accompanied by a 
classified annex) concerning such incident.
    (b) Content of Reports.--A report under this section shall 
contain--
            (1) a statement of the facts of the incident of terrorism 
        that is the subject of such report, as known at the time of 
        such report; and
            (2) any recommendations for changes in practices or law, 
        consistent with the Constitution, with particular attention to 
        changes that could help prevent future incidents of terrorism.
    (c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``incident of 
terrorism'' means an event declared by the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation to be an act of terrorism.
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