MDM18290 S.L.C.

AMENDMENT NO.llll Calendar No.lll

Purpose: To expand the requirements for the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency’s analysis of information pro-
vided in State Preparedness Reports and Threat and
Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES—115th Cong., 2d Sess.

H. R. 2825

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to make

certain improvements in the laws administered by the
Secretary of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
Referred to the Committee on llllllllll and
ordered to be printed
Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed
AMENDMENTS intended to be proposed by Mr. PAUL to the
amendment (No. lll) proposed by Mr. JOHNSON
Viz:
1 On page 218, line 24, strike ‘‘include a comparison’’
2 and insert the following: ‘‘include—
3 (1) a comparison

4 On page 219, line 3, strike the period at the end and

5 insert the following: ‘‘; and
6 (2) an assessment of the value and usefulness
7 of State Preparedness Reports and Threat and Haz-
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1 ard Identification and Risk Assessments, includ-
2 ing—
3 (A) the degree to which such reports and
4 assessments are data-driven and empirically
5 supported;
6 (B) the degree to which such reports and
7 assessments have informed grant award deci-
8 sions by the Federal Emergency Management
9 Agency;
10 (C) the degree to which grant award deci-
11 sions by the Federal Emergency Management
12 Agency have demonstrably reduced the risks
13 identified in such reports and assessments;
14 (D) the degree to which such reports and
15 assessments align with Federal risk assess-
16 ments, including counterterrorism risk assess-
17 ments, and the degree to which grant award de-
18 cisions by the Federal Emergency Management
19 Agency have reduced those Federally-identified
20 risks;
21 (E) the degree to which capability gaps
22 identified in such reports and assessments have
23 been mitigated; and
24 (F) options for improving State Prepared-
25 ness Reports and Threat and Hazard Identi-
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1 fication and Risk Assessments so that they bet-
2 ter inform and align with grant award decisions
3 by the Federal Emergency Management Agen-
4 cy.