DHS must report on car attacks and how to stop them.
H.R. 1608 — Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2025 · Filed by Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 26, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells DHS to write a report in 180 days. The report covers car attacks used as weapons. It must list current and new threats. It must find places and events at high risk. It must list tools that could stop or find attacks. DHS must share a public summary and brief Congress in 30 days.
Who it affects
The public learns about car attack threats through a public report. DHS must involve civil rights and privacy experts when it picks tools to use. Companies that make cars, systems, and software may face new rules.
One thing to notice
The bill asks DHS to suggest tools for finding and stopping car attacks. It does not set limits on how much watching those tools can do.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 1 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Feb 26, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 26, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Homeland Security and Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence”
- Apr 9, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Apr 9, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote”
- Nov 17, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required)…”
- Nov 17, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Garbarino moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $530,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 16 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Carlos Gimenez, who sponsored the bill, received $300,250 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Land Title Association — $530,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- civil rights — Basic freedoms and protections that all people have, like fair treatment.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (8,864 characters) on Aug 17, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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