On Monday, with both the House and Senate in session, there were 44 bills introduced. This post is a day late because of a delay in publishing the listing of 25 of the 28 bills introduced in the House on December 15th. One of those bills may receive additional attention in this blog:
S 3481 A bill to expand the authority to use counter-unmanned aircraft system technologies to State, local, Tribal, and territorial law enforcement and correctional agencies, and for other purposes. Peters, Gary C. [Sen.-D-MI]
cUAS Authorization
I can find no legislation in the 118th Congress that would appear to be similar to S 3481. I suspect that this bill is related to preventing unauthorized use of drones to make contraband deliveries to prisons. If that is the limit of coverage of the bill’s requirements, I will not be covering the legislation.
MIP Legislation
I would like to mention in passing one bill that will not receive additional coverage in this blog:
S 3472 A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the development of a national strategy to secure elementary and secondary schools against acts of terrorism and ensure domestic preparedness for and the response to terrorism, and for other purposes. Capito, Shelley Moore [Sen.-R-WV]
It looks like this bill may be similar to HR 2259 that was introduced in the House in March 2025, by Rep Gonzales (R,TX). Separate markup hearings were conducted by the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence and the House Homeland Security Committee (neither site provides any record of what actions were taken on the bill). The full Committee ordered the bill (as amended) to be reported favorably to the House. The Committee Report on the bill was published on November 12th, 2025, and the bill was passed by the House under the suspension of the rules process by a voice vote on November 19th, 2025.
The House bill requires the Department of Education to develop a broadly defined strategy to secure elementary and secondary schools against acts of terrorism. The major problem here is that there is no discussion about who will pay for the execution of such strategy, or even require the Education Department to estimate how much their proposed strategy might cost.
Unfortunately, the large number of active shooter incidents at schools each year in the United States shows that currently schools are very vulnerable to terrorist attacks. While schools have taken as many security measures as they can afford, these attacks mostly show how easy it is for students to evade those systems. Terrorists would be expected to be able to successfully conduct much more sophisticated, and grandly more deadly attacks.