3.0.0 2631 2023-01-12T17:53:03Z 2023-01-12T17:53:03Z House H HR 2007-06-07 110 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Reported by 2008-09-25T19:48:08Z Markup by 2008-09-23T21:56:59Z Referred to 2008-06-19T18:40:44Z hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee House Standing Discharged from 2008-06-11T19:37:03Z Referred to 2007-06-07T14:07:30Z hshm00 Homeland Security Committee House Standing hshm08 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee Reported by 2007-10-31T21:07:06Z Markup by 2007-10-31T21:06:52Z Hearings by 2007-10-10T14:46:32Z Referred to 2007-06-18T15:34:47Z Reported by 2008-06-11T19:36:23Z Markup by 2008-05-20T17:52:20Z Referred to 2007-06-07T14:07:25Z H. Rept. 110-708 2008-09-27 Senate Message on Senate action sent to the House. Floor 2008-09-26 Senate Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9852-9853; text as passed Senate: CR S9852-9853) Floor 2008-09-26 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9852-9853; text as passed Senate: CR S9852-9853) Floor 17000 9 Library of Congress 2008-09-25 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1086. Calendars 2008-09-25 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. Committee 2008-09-25 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee 2008-09-23 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2008-06-19 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2008-06-18 13:13:39 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection. Floor H38800 2 House floor actions 2008-06-18 13:13:37 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. Floor H38310 2 House floor actions 2008-06-18 13:13:35 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5513-5514) Floor H37300 2 House floor actions 2008-06-18 13:13:35 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5513-5514) Floor 8000 9 Library of Congress 2008-06-18 12:49:53 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2631. Floor H8D000 2 House floor actions 2008-06-18 12:49:52 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5513-5517) Floor H30000 2 House floor actions 2008-06-18 12:49:37 Mr. Thompson (MS) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. Floor H30300 2 House floor actions 2008-06-11 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 449. Calendars H12410 2 House floor actions U00449 2008-06-11 Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged. Discharge H12300 2 House floor actions hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2008-06-11 Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged. Committee 5500 9 Library of Congress hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2008-06-11 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 110-708, Part I. Committee H12200 2 House floor actions hshm00 Homeland Security Committee 2008-06-11 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 110-708, Part I. Committee 5000 9 Library of Congress hshm00 Homeland Security Committee 2008-05-20 hshm00 Homeland Security Committee 1 House committee actions Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent. Committee 2008-05-20 hshm00 Homeland Security Committee 1 House committee actions Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Committee 2007-10-31 hshm08 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote . Committee 2007-10-31 hshm08 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Committee 2007-10-10 hshm08 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Subcommittee Hearings Held. Committee 2007-06-18 hshm08 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology. Committee 2007-06-07 Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2007-06-07 Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2007-06-07 Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hshm00 Homeland Security Committee 2007-06-07 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2007-06-07 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress S001150 Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29] ADAM SCHIFF D CA B. 29 N L000559 Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2] JAMES LANGEVIN D RI R. 2 2007-06-07 True I000057 Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2] STEVE ISRAEL D NY 2 2007-06-07 True S001144 Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4] CHRISTOPHER SHAYS R CT 4 2007-06-07 True T000238 Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13] WILLIAM THORNBERRY R TX M. 13 2007-06-07 True M001157 Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10] Michael McCaul R TX T. 10 2007-10-22 False 2008-06-03T04:00:00Z H.R. 2631, Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act http://www.cbo.gov/publication/19846 <p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on May 20, 2008</p> 2008-06-03T04:00:00Z H.R. 2631, Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19846 Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on May 20, 2008 International Affairs Armed Forces and National Security Arms control Arms control agreements Arms control negotiations Classified defense information Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal investigation Energy Environmental Protection Forensic chemistry Government Operations and Politics Government publicity International cooperation Negotiations Nuclear fuels Nuclear nonproliferation Nuclear terrorism Nuclear weapons Official secrets Radiation Treaties International Affairs 00 2007-06-07 Introduced in House 2007-08-29T15:47:58Z Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) pursue bilateral and multilateral agreements to establish an international framework for determining the source of any confiscated nuclear material or weapon, as well as the source of any detonated weapon and the nuclear material used in such a weapon; (2) develop protocols for the dissemination of sensitive information relating to nuclear materials and samples of controlled nuclear materials to the extent required by such agreements; and (3) develop expedited protocols for the dissemination of sensitive information needed to publicly identify the source of a nuclear detonation.

Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include within the mission of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to develop methods to attribute nuclear or radiological material to its source when such material is intercepted by the United States, foreign governments, or international bodies or dispersed in the course of a nuclear terrorist attack or other nuclear or radiological explosion.

]]> 36 2008-06-18 Passed House amended 2008-09-24T15:04:21Z Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act - (Sec. 3) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) pursue bilateral and multilateral international agreements to establish, under the auspices of existing bilateral or multilateral agreements, an international framework for determining the source of any confiscated nuclear or radiological material or weapon, as well as the source of any detonated weapon and the nuclear or radiological material used in such a weapon; (2) develop protocols for the data exchange and dissemination of sensitive information relating to nuclear or radiological materials and samples of controlled nuclear or radiological materials to the extent required by such agreements; and (3) develop expedited protocols for the data exchange and dissemination of sensitive information needed to publicly identify the source of a nuclear detonation.

(Sec. 4) Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include within the mission of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to: (1) develop and implement methods and capabilities to support the attribution of nuclear or radiological material to its source when such material is intercepted by the United States, foreign governments, or international bodies or dispersed in the course of a terrorist attack or other nuclear or radiological explosion; (2) establish within the Office a National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center to provide centralized stewardship, planning, assessment, gap analysis, exercises, improvement, and integration for all federal nuclear forensics activities to ensure an enduring national technical nuclear forensics capability to strengthen the collective U.S. response to nuclear terrorism or other nuclear attacks; (3) establish a National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program, which is devoted to developing and maintaining a vibrant and enduring academic pathway from undergraduate to post-doctorate study in nuclear and geochemical science specialties directly relevant to technical nuclear forensics, which shall make available specified undergraduate and graduate study student scholarships and faculty awards, and which shall emphasize reinvigorating technical nuclear forensics programs while encouraging the participation of undergraduate and graduate students and university faculty from historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities; and (4) provide an annual report to Congress on activities under this section.

Authorizes appropriations.

]]> 35 2008-09-26 Passed Senate amended 2009-02-09T20:15:05Z Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) pursue international agreements to establish an international framework for determining the source of any confiscated nuclear or radiological material or weapon and the source of any detonated weapon and the nuclear or radiological material used in such a weapon; (2) develop protocols for the data exchange and dissemination of sensitive information relating to nuclear or radiological materials; and (3) develop expedited protocols for the data exchange and dissemination of sensitive information needed to publicly identify the source of a nuclear detonation.

Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include within the mission of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to: (1) develop and implement a National Strategy and Five-Year Implementation Plan for Improving the Nuclear Forensic and Attribution Capabilities of the United States Government (Plan) and methods, capabilities, and capacity for nuclear materials forensics and attribution; (2) establish within the Office a National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center to provide centralized stewardship, planning, assessment, gap analysis, exercises, improvement, and integration for all federal nuclear forensics and attribution activities and to coordinate and implement the Plan; and (3) establish a National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program devoted to developing and maintaining a vibrant and enduring academic pathway from undergraduate to post-doctorate study in nuclear and geochemical science specialties directly relevant to technical nuclear forensics.

Requires the Director of the Office and each of the relevant departments that are partners in the National Technical Forensics Center to report annually to Congress and the President on: (1) each relevant agency's activities and investments in support of nuclear forensics and attribution activities; (2) the most current version of the Plan; and (3) funds allocated for authorized activities that are not spent.

]]> Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act Display Title Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act Official Title as Introduced To strengthen efforts in the Department of Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to permit attribution of the source of nuclear material. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act Short Titles as Reported to House Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act H House Short Titles as Passed House Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act H House Official Titles as Amended by House To strengthen efforts in the Department of Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to permit attribution of the source of nuclear material, and for other purposes. H House Engrossed Amendment Senate 2008-09-27T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr2631eas/xml/BILLS-110hr2631eas.xml Reported to Senate 2008-09-25T04:00:00Z Referred in Senate 2008-06-19T04:00:00Z Engrossed in House 2008-06-18T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr2631eh/xml/BILLS-110hr2631eh.xml Reported in House 2008-06-11T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr2631rh/xml/BILLS-110hr2631rh.xml Introduced in House 2007-06-07T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr2631ih/xml/BILLS-110hr2631ih.xml 2008-09-27 Message on Senate action sent to the House. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.