HR5645-119

What This Bill Does

The Pray Safe Act of 2025 creates a Department of Homeland Security clearinghouse for nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and houses of worship that face terrorism, targeted violence, natural-disaster, or other security threats. DHS must establish the clearinghouse within 270 days after consulting the Attorney General, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and other agencies. The clearinghouse becomes the federal resource for safety and security best practices, event planning, checklists, facility hardening, tabletop exercises, resilience measures, grant-program information, and application help. DHS must assign personnel, name a point of contact, build evidence tiers for best practices, maintain a grant index with performance metrics, gather analytics and user feedback, update the site annually, report to Congress every three years on updates, notify state homeland security advisors and relevant federal entities, list Protective Security Advisors, fusion centers, See Something Say Something information, and other contacts, and stop the Act after four years. GAO must report to Congress on federal grants and resources devoted to nonprofit and house-of-worship security.

Who Benefits and How

Houses of worship benefit from centralized DHS guidance on facility hardening, event planning, incident response, recovery, and grant applications. At-risk nonprofit organizations benefit from a single federal website that indexes eligible safety and security grants and performance metrics. Faith-based organizations benefit from a designated DHS point of contact and online resources tailored to their security risks. State homeland security advisors benefit from formal notification and a federal resource they can use when helping local organizations.

Who Bears the Burden and How

DHS clearinghouse staff must build and maintain the website, evidence tiers, resource index, grant information, updates, contacts, and reports. Department of Justice staff and White House faith-based office staff must consult on safety recommendations and grant resources. Federal grant agencies must provide DHS with information about programs and resources available to covered organizations. GAO analysts must evaluate federal security grants and resources for nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and houses of worship.

Key Provisions

• Establishes a DHS clearinghouse within 270 days for nonprofit, faith-based, and house-of-worship safety resources.
• Requires evidence-tiered best practices covering facility hardening, event planning, tabletop exercises, resilience, prevention, response, and recovery.
• Requires a grant-program index with application links, user guides, eligibility information, performance metrics, and frequently asked questions.
• Requires annual updates, three-year congressional reports, notifications to state and federal security offices, and a four-year sunset.
• Requires GAO to report on federal grants and resources for nonprofit and house-of-worship safety and security.