1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2017 . 2. References to the Tsunami Warning and Education Act Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Tsunami Warning and Education Act enacted as title VIII of Public Law 109–479 ( 33 U.S.C. 3201 et seq.). 3. Expansion of purposes of Tsunami Warning and Education Act Section 803 ( 33 U.S.C. 3202 ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting research, after warnings, ; (2) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows: (2) to enhance and modernize the existing tsunami warning system in the United States to increase the accuracy of forecasts and warnings, to ensure full coverage of tsunami threats to the United States with a network of detection assets, and to reduce false alarms; ; (3) by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows: (3) to improve and develop standards and guidelines for mapping, modeling, and assessment efforts to improve tsunami detection, forecasting, warnings, notification, mitigation, resiliency, response, outreach, and recovery; ; (4) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) as paragraphs (5), (6), and (8), respectively; (5) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: (4) to improve research efforts related to improving tsunami detection, forecasting, warnings, notification, evacuation, mitigation, resiliency, response, outreach, and recovery; ; (6) in paragraph (5), as redesignated— (A) by striking and increase and inserting , increase, and develop uniform standards and guidelines for ; and (B) by inserting , including the warning signs of locally generated tsunami after approaching ; (7) in paragraph (6), as redesignated, by striking , including the Indian Ocean; and and inserting a semicolon