[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5485 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5485

To expand the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium to include the 
          SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2010

  Mr. Tonko introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 expand the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium to include the 
          SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness.

    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 ``National Domestic Preparedness 
Consortium Enhancement Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the State University of New York (SUNY) is the Nation's 
        largest comprehensive system of public higher education, 
        comprising 64 campuses across the State of New York;
            (2) the SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness 
        oversees a coordinated strategy to leverage the resources of 
        all 64 SUNY campuses to develop homeland security training 
        programs and to apply SUNY's homeland security research 
        expertise;
            (3) the SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness 
        and the SUNY campuses provide extraordinary capabilities to 
        help the Nation in the areas of intelligence, preparedness, 
        protection analysis, information sharing, and critical 
        decisionmaking;
            (4) the SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness 
        is poised to create a program in the areas of intelligence, 
        preparedness, protection analysis, information sharing, and 
        critical decisionmaking;
            (5) the management team of the SUNY National Center for 
        Security and Preparedness has many years of experience with 
        working with the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium;
            (6) the SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness 
        has established partnerships that will allow the SUNY National 
        Center for Security and Preparedness immediately to identify 
        and certify instructors, pilot and certify courses, and set up 
        an infrastructure that is compatible with the reporting 
        requirements of the Department of Homeland Security; and
            (7) none of the member institutions of the National 
        Domestic Preparedness Consortium of the Department of Homeland 
        Security are currently focusing on providing training in the 
        areas of intelligence, protection analysis, information 
        sharing, and critical decisionmaking.

SEC. 3. ENHANCEMENT OF NATIONAL DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS CONSORTIUM.

    The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium of the Department of 
Homeland Security shall include the SUNY National Center for Security 
and Preparedness in order to train State, local, and tribal emergency 
response providers to prepare for and respond to acts of terrorism, 
including weapons of mass destruction.
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