Title: Requiring each Member, officer, and employee of the House of Representatives to complete a program of emergency preparedness training during each Congress, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
This resolution directs the Committee on House Administration to require each Member, officer, and employee of the House of Representatives to complete a program of emergency preparedness training during each Congress.
This program must include (1) training in the use of emergency equipment; (2) reviewing protective actions, emergency notifications, and office-level emergency preparedness; and (3) reviewing safe haven protocols.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 250 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 250

     Requiring each Member, officer, and employee of the House of 
    Representatives to complete a program of emergency preparedness 
         training during each Congress, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2021

  Mr. Norman (for himself and Mr. Loudermilk) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     Requiring each Member, officer, and employee of the House of 
    Representatives to complete a program of emergency preparedness 
         training during each Congress, and for other purposes.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. MANDATORY COMPLETION OF PROGRAM OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 
              TRAINING.

    (a) Requiring Training for All Members, Officers, and Employees.--
            (1) Requirement.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
        the adoption of this resolution, the Committee on House 
        Administration shall issue regulations to require each Member 
        (including each Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the 
        Congress), officer, and employee of the House of 
        Representatives to complete a program of emergency preparedness 
        training during each Congress.
            (2) Inclusion of interns, fellows, and detailees.--For 
        purposes of this resolution, an individual serving in an office 
        of the House of Representatives as an intern (including an 
        unpaid intern), a participant in a fellowship program, or a 
        detailee from another office of the Federal government shall be 
        considered an employee of the House.
    (b) Components of Training.--
            (1) In general.--The program required under this section 
        shall include each of the following:
                    (A) Training in the use of emergency equipment, 
                including escape hoods.
                    (B) Reviewing protective actions, emergency 
                notifications, and office-level emergency preparedness.
                    (C) Reviewing safe haven protocols, except that the 
                program may not reveal to any individuals, other than 
                Members, personnel of the Capitol Police, personnel of 
                the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and other personnel 
                designated by the Sergeant-at-Arms, any safe haven 
                locations established for Members.
            (2) Appropriateness of training based on location of 
        office.--The program required under this section shall provide 
        training for employees of an office which is appropriate for 
        the needs of the office, taking into account whether the office 
        is located in a House office building or in a Congressional 
        district office.
    (c) Availability of Remote Training.--The program required under 
this section shall be provided remotely and no individual shall be 
required to receive training under the program in person, except that 
an individual may, at the individual's option, receive training under 
the program in person beginning with the second session of the One 
Hundred Seventeenth Congress or (if earlier) beginning at such time as 
the Chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on House 
Administration determine that the program may be provided safely in 
person.
    (d) Use of Existing House Resources.--To the greatest extent 
practicable, the program required under this section shall be carried 
out by the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, in consultation with the 
United States Capitol Police, through the use of existing resources, 
including video recording and programming, of the House of 
Representatives.
    (e) Deadline for Completion of Training.--Under the regulations 
issued by the Committee on House Administration under subsection (a), 
an individual shall complete the program of training required under 
subsection (a), and a certificate of completion of such training shall 
be added to the individual's training record under the Congressional 
Staff Academy, not later than--
            (1) in the case of an individual who is serving as a 
        Member, officer, or employee of the House as of the first day 
        of the first session of Congress, not later than December 31 of 
        the year in which the session begins; or
            (2) in the case of any other individual, not later than 60 
        days after the individual first becomes a Member, officer, or 
        employee of the House during the session.
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