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[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 6 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia:H.R. 6972.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8The single subject of this legislation is:This legislation only pertains to: oversight of theNational Security Council[Page H108]
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 711.
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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-305.
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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-305.
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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6972.
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H.R. 6972, Securing Chain of Command Continuity Act
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61090
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on November 20, 2024
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Securing Chain of Command Continuity Act
This bill requires certain notifications whenever a head of an executive branch agency who is a member of the National Security Council (for example, the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense) becomes medically incapacitated.
In the event that such an agency head becomes medically incapacitated, the person serving in an acting capacity as the agency head (or, if no person is acting, the first assistant to the office of the agency head) must notify within 24 hours the Executive Office of the President, the Comptroller General, the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
In the event that such notifications are not made, the bill requires a report containing certain information related to the medical incapacitation, the individual who served in an acting capacity, and an explanation of why the required notifications were not made.

Securing Chain of Command Continuity Act
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To amend title 5, United States Code, to require an Executive agency whose head is a member of the National Security Council to notify the Executive Office of the President, the Comptroller General of the United States, and congressional leadership of such head becoming medically incapacitated within 24 hours, and for other purposes.
2024-03-18T22:06:12Z
Introduced in House
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- Reported to Senate
2024-12-17T05:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr6972rs/xml/BILLS-118hr6972rs.xml
- Referred in Senate
2024-05-07T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr6972rfs/xml/BILLS-118hr6972rfs.xml
- Engrossed in House
2024-05-06T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr6972eh/xml/BILLS-118hr6972eh.xml
- Introduced in House
2024-01-11T05:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr6972ih/xml/BILLS-118hr6972ih.xml
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 711.
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