Requires the Department of Homeland Security to run an exercise simulating a terrorist attack on critical infrastructure during extreme cold weather, then report the findings to Congress.

• Directs DHS to develop and conduct a terrorism response exercise based on an extreme cold event, such as a polar vortex, that affects access to critical services.
• Requires the exercise to examine cascading effects on critical infrastructure, how emergency managers and stakeholders could mitigate them, and how community resilience could be strengthened.
• Requires coordination with federal, state, local, Tribal, territorial, private sector, and community partners.
• Requires an after-action report to the House Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee within 60 days after the exercise, consistent with protecting classified information.

• Homeland Security Committee (House)
• Emergency Management and Technology Subcommittee
• Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee
• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)

Emergency Management