3.0.0 328 2023-01-11T20:05:22Z 2023-01-11T20:05:22Z Senate S S 2007-01-17 110 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-01-18T01:09:00Z Risk-Based Homeland Security Grants Act of 2007 110 608 S 2007-02-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2031-2038) Related bill CRS 2007-01-17 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2007-01-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ N L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2007-01-17 True Emergency Management Advice and consent of the Senate Afghanistan Air defenses Air piracy Airline passenger traffic Alliances Appropriations Arab-Israeli conflict Armed Forces and National Security Arms control Arms control agreements Arms control negotiations Arms control verification Arms sales Arts, Culture, Religion Aviation safety Bank examination Biological warfare Bombings Border patrols Boundaries Central Intelligence Agency Charities Chemical warfare Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Commerce Computer crimes Computer security measures Confidential funding (Federal budgets) Congress Congress and foreign policy Congress and military policy Congressional committee chairmen Congressional committee membership Congressional committees (House) Congressional committees (Senate) Congressional investigations Congressional oversight Congressional reorganization Congressional reporting requirements Cost effectiveness Counterfeiting Crime and Law Enforcement Cultural relations Data banks Department of Defense Department of Homeland Security Department of Justice Department of State Detention of persons Diplomacy Director of National Intelligence Economic assistance Economic development Economics and Public Finance Education Educational exchanges Elementary and secondary education Emergency communication systems Emergency medicine Employee training Energy Energy research English language Environmental Protection Environmental monitoring Environmental technology Equipment and supplies Exchange of persons programs Executive Office of the President Executive reorganization Explosives Export controls Extremist movements in politics Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to law enforcement Federal law enforcement officers Federal preemption Federal-Indian relations Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Fingerprints Fire departments Fire fighters Fire prevention Fissionable materials Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign service Former Soviet states Gifts Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Grants-in-aid Health Higher education House Homeland Security House Intelligence Housing and Community Development Human rights Identification devices Identification of criminals Immigration Information technology Infrastructure Infrastructure (Economics) Intelligence officers International Affairs International broadcasting International cooperation Islamic countries Islamic fundamentalism Labor and Employment Law Leadership Liability (Law) Libraries Medical research Middle East and North Africa Military readiness Military strategy Military technology Minorities Missile warheads Money laundering Nuclear fuels Nuclear nonproliferation Nuclear security measures Nuclear terrorism Nuclear weapons Pakistan Paramedical personnel Passports Peace negotiations Performance measurement Planning Plutonium Police Police communication systems Police training President and foreign policy Presidential appointments Prisoners of war Prisoners' rights Products liability Public Lands and Natural Resources Public-private partnerships Radio spectrum allocation Religion Religious education Rescue work Research and development Restoration ecology Right of privacy Risk Russia Saudi Arabia Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Scientists Security clearances Security measures Senate Appropriations Senate Armed Services Senate Intelligence Senate rules and procedure September 11, 2001 Social Welfare Social security numbers South Asia Standards State laws State-local relations Subpoena Tactical nuclear weapons Technology transfer Terrorism Transportation and Public Works Transportation safety Travel United Nations Urban affairs Urban areas Volunteer workers Weapons of mass destruction Whistle blowing Women Women's education Emergency Management 00 2007-01-17 Introduced in Senate 2007-02-09T20:13:15Z 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 December 31, 2007.

Requires reports respecting: (1) a unified incident command system; (2) a national critical infrastructure risk and vulnerabilities assessment; and (3) private sector preparedness.

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 of Homeland Security (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 on airline passenger screening, on explosives detection at airline screening checkpoints, and on the comprehensive screening program; (4) the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center on collection and analysis of intelligence on terrorist travel; (5) the Commissioner of Social Security on social security card security enhancements; (6) the Director of National Intelligence on implementation of goals, and establishment of a National Counterterrorism Center; (7) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the creation of an FBI national security workforce; (8) the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); (9) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on information sharing incentives and on the leadership of the President of national security institutions in the information revolution; (10) the Secretary of Defense on Northern Command plans for homeland defense; and (11) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on security clearance standardization.

Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to each report on homeland airspace defense.

Directs the Attorney General to report on specified areas of civil liberties and security and executive power, including government sharing of personal information.

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.

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.

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 2007 - 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 tactical and non-strategic nuclear weapons; (4) research and development of alternative use of weapons of mass destruction expertise; (5) nonproliferation activities; and (6) strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

]]> Ensuring Implementation of the 9/11 Commission Report Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Ensuring Implementation of the 9/11 Commission Report Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill 9/11 Commission Civil Liberties Board Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act of 2005 Short Titles as Introduced Ensuring Implementation of the 9/11 Commission Report Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Homeland Emergency Response Operations Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill HERO Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Omnibus Nonproliferation and Anti-Nuclear Terrorism Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-01-17T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s328is/xml/BILLS-110s328is.xml 2007-01-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. 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.