H.R. 1608 · 119th Congress · Transportation and public works
Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2025
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Nov 17, 2025
Roll call ↗400
15
Passed the House.
Passed the House on November 17, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- IntroducedFeb 26, 2025
- CommitteeAug 8, 2025
- Passed HouseNov 17, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 2
- 1 Democrat, 1 Republican
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsHouse Committee on Homeland Security
- Lobbying
- None read
- No filing read so far names H.R. 1608
What it does
This bill orders a study, not new security rules.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, November 17, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill orders a study, not new security rules. Within 180 days of enactment, the Secretary of Homeland Security, working with the TSA Administrator and the CISA Director, must give Congress a report on DHS efforts to prevent, deter, and respond to vehicular terrorism. The report must assess current and emerging threats, including risks from connected and autonomous vehicles, driver-assistance systems, and ride-sharing. It must review vulnerable sites and events, summarize DHS countermeasures such as barriers, bollards, geofencing, and surveillance, cover coordination with industry and with state and local law enforcement, recommend detection and vehicle-disabling technologies, and address privacy and civil liberties. The report is submitted in classified form with an unclassified executive summary published on a DHS website. DHS must brief Congress within 30 days after the report. The bill opens with findings citing the January 1, 2025 vehicle attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that killed 14 people.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
No organization named this measure in a lobbying filing we could read with confidence. That is not a finding that nobody lobbied it. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, and a reference that could not be pinned to exactly one measure is refused rather than guessed.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.