HR 1110
113th Congress
House
Emergency Management
Caribbean area
Emergency communications systems
Emergency planning and evacuation
Natural disasters
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates
Tsunami Forecasting and Warning Improvement Act of 2013
Introduced: March 13, 2013
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 21, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
Mar 13, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Mar 13, 2013
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Tsunami Forecasting and Warning Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Tsunami Warning and Education Act to direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), through the National Weather Service, to establish or maintain a Caribbean Tsunami Warning Center in Puerto Rico. (The responsibilities of tsunami warning centers include monitoring and evaluating earthquakes, disseminating forecasts and tsunami warning bulletins to federal, state, and local governments as well as the public, and ensuring information sharing between forecasters and emergency management officials.)
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
Committees of jurisdiction
3
Cosponsors
1