IIB 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1589 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 2, 2019 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs 

AN ACT 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 

chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear intelligence 

and information sharing functions of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland 

Security and to require dissemination of information analyzed by the Department to entities with responsibilities 

relating to homeland security, and for other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘CBRN Intelligence and 

5 Information Sharing Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, AND NU7 CLEAR INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION 

8 SHARING. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home10 land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.) is amend11 ed by inserting after section 210E the following new sec12 tion: 

13 ‘‘SEC. 210F. CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, AND 

14 NUCLEAR INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION 

15 SHARING. 

16 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Office of Intelligence and 

17 Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security shall— 

18 ‘‘(1) support homeland security-focused intel19 ligence analysis of terrorist actors, their claims, and 

20 their plans to conduct attacks involving chemical, bi21 ological, radiological, or nuclear materials against 

22 the United States, including critical infrastructure; 

23 ‘‘(2) support homeland security-focused intel24 ligence analysis of global infectious disease, public 

25 health, food, agricultural, and veterinary issues; 


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1 ‘‘(3) support homeland security-focused risk 

2 analysis and risk assessments of the homeland secu3 rity hazards described in paragraphs (1) and (2), in4 cluding the transportation of chemical, biological, 

5 nuclear, and radiological materials, by providing rel6 evant quantitative and nonquantitative threat infor7 mation; 

8 ‘‘(4) leverage existing and emerging homeland 

9 security intelligence capabilities and structures to 

10 enhance early detection, prevention, protection, re11 sponse, and recovery efforts with respect to a chem12 ical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack; 

13 ‘‘(5) share information and provide tailored an14 alytical support on such threats to State, local, Trib15 al, and territorial authorities, and other Federal 

16 agencies, as well as relevant national biosecurity and 

17 biodefense stakeholders, as appropriate; and 

18 ‘‘(6) perform other responsibilities, as assigned 

19 by the Secretary. 

20 ‘‘(b) COORDINATION.—Where appropriate, the Office 

21 of Intelligence and Analysis shall coordinate with other 

22 relevant Department components, including the Coun23 tering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office and the Na24 tional Biosurveillance Integration Center, agencies within 

25 the intelligence community, including the National 


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1 Counter Proliferation Center, and other Federal, State, 

2 local, Tribal, and territorial authorities, including officials 

3 from high-threat urban areas, State and major urban area 

4 fusion centers, and local public health departments, as ap5 propriate, and enable such entities to provide rec6 ommendations on optimal information sharing mecha7 nisms, including expeditious sharing of classified informa8 tion, and on how such entities can provide information to 

9 the Department. 

10 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

11 ‘‘(1) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—The term 

12 ‘intelligence community’ has the meaning given such 

13 term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 

14 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 

15 ‘‘(2) NATIONAL BIOSECURITY AND BIODEFENSE

16 STAKEHOLDERS.—The term ‘national biosecurity 

17 and biodefense stakeholders’ means officials from 

18 Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial authori19 ties and individuals from the private sector who are 

20 involved in efforts to prevent, protect against, re21 spond to, and recover from a biological attack or 

22 other phenomena that may have serious health con23 sequences for the United States, including infectious 

24 disease outbreaks.’’. 


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1 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

2 in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 

3 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

4 201E the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 210F. Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear intelligence and information sharing.’’. 

5 (c) REPORT.— 

6 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year 

7 after the date of the enactment of this Act and an8 nually thereafter for each of the following four years, 

9 the Secretary of Homeland Security shall report to 

10 the appropriate congressional committees on the fol11 lowing: 

12 (A) The intelligence and information shar13 ing activities under section 210F of the Home14 land Security Act of 2002 (as added by sub15 section (a) of this section) and of all relevant 

16 entities within the Department of Homeland 

17 Security to counter the threat from attacks 

18 using chemical, biological, radiological, or nu19 clear materials. 

20 (B) The Department’s activities in accord21 ance with relevant intelligence strategies. 

22 (2) ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION.—The 

23 reports required under paragraph (1) shall include 

24 the following: 


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1 (A) An assessment of the progress of the 

2 Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the De3 partment of Homeland Security in imple4 menting such section 210F. 

5 (B) A description of the methods estab6 lished to carry out such assessment. 

7 (3) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 

8 ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means the 

9 Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 

10 Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 

11 Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate 

12 and any committee of the House of Representatives 

13 or the Senate having legislative jurisdiction under 

14 the rules of the House of Representatives or Senate, 

15 respectively, over the matter concerned. 

16 SEC. 3. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ANALYZED BY 

17 THE DEPARTMENT TO STATE, LOCAL, TRIB18 AL, TERRITORIAL, AND PRIVATE ENTITIES 

19 WITH RESPONSIBILITIES RELATING TO 

20 HOMELAND SECURITY. 

21 Paragraph (6) of section 201(d) of the Homeland Se22 curity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121(d)) is amended by strik23 ing ‘‘and to agencies of State’’ and all that follows through 

24 the period at the end and inserting ‘‘to State, local, Tribal, 

25 territorial, and private entities with such responsibilities, 


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1 and, as appropriate, to the public, in order to assist in 

2 preventing, deterring, or responding to acts of terrorism 

3 against the United States.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives April 1, 2019. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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