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Ensuring Implementation of the 9/11 Commission Report Act

Introduced: March 28, 2006 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 8 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 20, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.
Apr 19, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
Mar 29, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Mar 29, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Mar 29, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Mar 29, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Mar 28, 2006
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Government Reform, Armed Services, the Judiciary, International Relations, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 28, 2006
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Ensuring Implementation of the 9/11 Commission Report Act - Homeland Emergency Response Operations Act or the HERO Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to complete assignment of the electromagnetic spectrum for public safety services to permit operation by January 1, 2007.

Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant program to assist state and local governments in achieving essential capabilities for terrorism preparedness. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an Office of the Comptroller within the Office for Domestic Preparedness, a First Responder Grants Board, and a Task Force on Terrorism Preparedness for First Responders; and (2) promulgate national voluntary standards for first responder equipment.

Requires reports by: (1) DHS on a unified incident command system, a national critical infrastructure risk and vulnerabilities assessment, the comprehensive screening system, a biometric entry and exit data system, international collaboration on border and document security, and standardization of secure identification; (2) the Comptroller General on private sector preparedness, federal first responder training programs, and terrorist watch list consolidation; (3) the Secretary of Transportation on a national strategy for transportation security and on airline passenger screening; (4) the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center on collection and analysis of intelligence on terrorist travel; and (5) the Commissioner of Social Security on social security card security enhancements.

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require fingerprints in passports.

Requires specified reports on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and the policy goals of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

Requires certification by the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense as to whether the federal government has implemented the policy goals and the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States regarding homeland and airspace defense.

Requires semiannual reports by the Secretary of Defense describing the plans and strategies of the U.S. Northern Command.

9/11 Commission Civil Liberties Board Act - Revises provisions concerning the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Provides for the designation of privacy and civil liberties officers.

Revises provisions concerning the House and Senate intelligence committees.

Requires public disclosure by the President of certain intelligence funding.

Expresses the sense of Congress respecting: (1) Afghanistan; (2) Pakistan; (3) Saudi Arabia; (4) coalition strategy against Islamic terrorism; (5) the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI); (6) the Proliferation Security Initiative; and (7) nuclear weapons and materials security standards.

Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) terrorist sanctuary elimination; (2) standards for detention and humane treatment of captured terrorists; (3) economic policies to combat terrorism; (4) terrorist financing; and (5) public diplomacy, scholarship, exchange, and library programs in the Islamic world, and international broadcasting;

Omnibus Nonproliferation and Anti-Nuclear Terrorism Act of 2006 - Establishes the Office of Nonproliferation Programs in the Executive Office of the President. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) removal of certain restrictions on cooperative threat reduction and energy nonproliferation programs, and modification of such programs' fund use outside the former Soviet Union; (2) the Global Threat Reduction Initiative; (3) Russia's nuclear weapons; (4) research and development of alternative use of weapons of mass destruction expertise; and (5) strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

What's happening now April 20, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.

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