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Disability Integration and Coordination Improvement Act

Introduced: December 2, 2010 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 13, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
Dec 2, 2010
Referred to House Homeland Security
Dec 2, 2010
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
Dec 2, 2010
Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
Dec 2, 2010
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Disability Integration and Coordination Improvement Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to: (1) establish an Office of Disability Integration and Coordination; (2) use such Office to implement strategies and activities in support of the responsibilities of the Disability Coordinator, who shall serve as the Director of the Office. and (3) establish specific, measurable, achievable, and relevant performance measures for the Office, including to ensure the integration of people with disabilities into emergency, preparedness, protection, mitigation, evacuation, sheltering, transition, resiliency, and recovery plans.

Directs the Administrator to contract with the National Academy of Public Administration to: (1) conduct an assessment of the efficacy of state, local, and tribal governments' and nonprofits' registries of people with disabilities to guide planning and preparedness during local, state, and national disasters or emergencies resulting from a natural disaster, an act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster; and (2) provide recommendations for establishing a federal disabilities registry.

What's happening now December 13, 2010

Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3