[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1292 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1292

   To require the President to develop and implement a strategy for 
                           homeland security.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2001

 Mr. Skelton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Intelligence 
 (Permanent Select), 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the President to develop and implement a strategy for 
                           homeland security.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Homeland Security Strategy Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The United States needs to enhance activities to 
        improve homeland security for its citizens and territory in 
        providing protection from the threat of terrorist or strategic 
        attacks, including cyber attacks and attacks involving the use 
        of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.
            (2) The two key aspects of homeland security are--
                    (A) antiterrorism activities, including activities 
                relating to force protection, prevention and detection 
                of attack, law enforcement, public health, reporting, 
                and other activities that precede a domestic attack 
                against the United States; and
                    (B) consequence management, including activities 
                carried out by government entities that are designed to 
                respond to and mitigate the effects of a domestic 
                attack against the United States.
            (3) There is currently no well-publicized, widely 
        understood, comprehensive, governmentwide strategy concerning 
        the role of the United States Government in homeland security 
        crisis and consequence management.
            (4) Development and implementation of a homeland security 
        strategy will necessarily involve several executive departments 
        and agencies and will only succeed if the heads of those 
        departments and agencies agree to fully support implementation 
        of the strategy within and across those departments and 
        agencies, including implementation of all aspects of the 
        strategy relating to resourcing and funding of personnel and 
        equipment.
            (5) The United States Government does not currently have an 
        adequate strategic sense of the unconventional threats to the 
        United States. Due to the significant conventional military 
        superiority of the United States, future adversaries are 
        unlikely to risk a direct head-to-head military confrontation 
        with the United States, but rather are likely to seek to 
        exploit weaknesses in the domestic preparedness and 
        counterterrorism preparedness of the United States.
            (6) A United States homeland security strategy should 
        reflect a layered approach to homeland security that provides 
        for activities relating to each of the following: prevention of 
        an attack, protection from an attack, and response to an 
        attack.
            (7) The Department of Defense has assets that could be used 
        to provide and enhance homeland security, but those assets 
        should only be used for that purpose in appropriate 
        circumstances.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT TO DEVELOP HOMELAND SECURITY STRATEGY.

    (a) Requirement To Develop Strategy.--The President shall develop a 
comprehensive strategy for homeland security under which Federal, 
State, and local government organizations coordinate and cooperate to 
meet homeland security objectives.
    (b) Components of Strategy.--The homeland security strategy 
required to be developed under subsection (a) shall include the 
following components:
            (1) Identification of specific homeland security threats 
        based upon the results of the assessment under subsection (c).
            (2) Development of a specific strategy with respect to 
        antiterrorism activities and consequence management that 
        includes specific, measurable objectives by which the efficacy 
        of the execution of the strategy may be determined.
            (3) Identification of the Federal executive departments, 
        agencies, and other organizations that should play a role in 
        protecting homeland security and specification of the role of 
        each such organization.
            (4) Providing for the selective use of personnel and assets 
        of the Armed Forces in circumstances in which those personnel 
        and assets would provide unique capability and could be used 
        without infringing on the civil liberties of the people of the 
        United States.
            (5) Optimization of the use of intelligence assets and 
        capabilities, including improvement of the processes by which 
        intelligence information is provided to State and local 
        governments.
            (6) Providing for augmentation of existing medical response 
        capability and equipment stockpiles at the Federal, State, and 
        local levels.
            (7) Development of a multiyear plan for phased 
        implementation of the strategy and a comprehensive projected 
        budget.
    (c) Risk Assessment.--The President shall conduct a comprehensive 
threat and risk assessment with respect to homeland security to be used 
as the basis for the identification of specific homeland security 
threats for purposes of subsection (b)(1).

SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGY.

    (a) In General.--The President shall implement the homeland 
security strategy developed under section 3. The President shall begin 
to implement the strategy as soon as practicable and shall carry out 
such implementation in accordance with the plan developed under section 
3(b)(7).
    (b) Designation of Responsible Official.--The President shall 
designate a single official in the United States Government to be 
responsible for, and to report to the President on, homeland security.
    (c) Participation of Agency Heads.--The President shall ensure that 
the homeland security strategy, including any organizational changes 
within the executive branch required for the implementation of that 
strategy, is carried out through the heads of the appropriate executive 
departments and agencies.
    (d) Restructuring of Appropriations Accounts as Necessary.--The 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall restructure 
appropriations accounts as necessary to carry out the organizational 
and operational changes made in implementing the homeland security 
strategy.

SEC. 5. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    (a) Report Required.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to Congress a report 
describing--
            (1) the process by which the homeland security strategy 
        required by this Act will be developed;
            (2) the time line for developing such strategy; and
            (3) the anticipated funding and any legislative changes 
        necessary to carry out the strategy.
    (b) Classified Annex.--The report required under subsection (a) 
shall be in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex as 
necessary.

SEC. 6. HOMELAND SECURITY DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``homeland security'' means the protection of 
the territory, critical infrastructures, and citizens of the United 
States by Federal, State, and local government entities from the threat 
or use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, cyber, or 
conventional weapons by military or other means.
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