Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Creates a DHS Special Events Program to assess threat, vulnerability, and consequences for pre-planned special events not designated National Special Security Events. Allows Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial officials to voluntarily request event ratings and DHS security or situational awareness support.
Civil liberties: liberals worry about protest surveillance; conservatives worry about state overreach.
Narrow, administrative homeland-security bill with reporting and voluntary features—typically low barrier in the House.
Creates a DHS Special Events Program to assess threat, vulnerability, and consequences for pre-planned special events not designated National Special Security Events.
Allows Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial officials to voluntarily request event ratings and DHS security or situational awareness support.
Requires risk-based methodology, expedited and reassessment processes, annual and five-year reports to Congress, and directs DHS S&T to research mass-gathering security technologies consistent with constitutional and civil liberties protections.
Relatively narrow, administratively focused bill with voluntary provisions and oversight language improves prospects, but unknown funding and privacy concerns temper chances.
How solid the drafting looks.
Civil liberties: liberals worry about protest surveillance; conservatives worry about state overreach.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Civil liberties: liberals worry about protest surveillance; conservatives worry about state overreach.
Generally supportive of improving safety at mass gatherings and including civil rights language, but cautious about expanded surveillance.
Will weigh benefits for public protection against risks to protester privacy and possible militarization of local policing.
Views the bill as a pragmatic, modest federal tool to help state and local authorities manage security risks at large events.
Likes voluntary nature and reporting requirements but will want clarity on costs, implementation, and civil-liberties protections.
Skeptical about expanding DHS involvement in local events and introducing more federal programs.
Appreciates voluntary requests but worries about mission creep, federal overreach, and unaccountable surveillance technology.
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Relatively narrow, administratively focused bill with voluntary provisions and oversight language improves prospects, but unknown funding and privacy concerns temper chances.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Civil liberties: liberals worry about protest surveillance; conservatives worry about state overreach.
Relatively narrow, administratively focused bill with voluntary provisions and oversight language improves prospects, but unknown funding a…
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