Center has experienced a 117 percent increase in demand for training sessions, with five times as many participants. (17) The Center additionally provides consultation and follow-up engagements with government agencies, law enforcement, schools, and other organizations with public safety responsibilities. From fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2022 the Center has seen a 553 percent increase in consultation activities. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that a fact-based behavioral threat assessment approach, involving local law enforcement, mental health professionals, workplace managers, school personnel, other public safety officials, and members of the community, is one of the most effective ways to prevent targeted violence impacting communities across the country, and is a fitting memorial to those whose lives were taken in the February 14, 2018, attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and those who heroically acted to preserve the lives of their friends, students, and colleagues. 3. Reauthorization and expansion of the national threat assessment center of the Department of Homeland Security (a) In general Chapter 203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 3056A the following: 3056B. Functions of the National Threat Assessment Center of the United States Secret Service (a) In general There is established a National Threat Assessment Center (in this section referred to as the Center ), to be operated by the United States Secret Service, at the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security. (b) Functions The functions of the Center shall include the following: (1) Training and education in the area of best practices on threat assessment and the prevention of targeted violence. (2) Consultation on complex threat assessment cases and programs. (3) Research on threat assessment and the prevention of targeted violence, consistent with evidence-based standards and existing laws and regulations. (4) Facilitation of information sharing on threat assessment and