[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1282 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1282

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 27, 2011

Mr. Schumer (for himself and Mrs. Gillibrand) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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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 2011''.

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, infrastructure 
        protection analysis, information sharing, and critical 
        decision-making;
            (4) the SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness 
        is poised to create a program in the areas of intelligence, 
        infrastructure protection analysis, information sharing, and 
        critical decision-making with national training capabilities;
            (5) the management team of the SUNY National Center for 
        Security and Preparedness has many years of experience 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) of the member institutions of the National Domestic 
        Preparedness Consortium of the Department of Homeland Security, 
        none are currently focusing on providing training in the areas 
        of intelligence, infrastructure protection analysis, 
        information sharing, and critical decision-making.

SEC. 3. ENHANCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS CONSORTIUM.

    The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium shall include the 
SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness.
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