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Union Calendar No. 10 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1589 

[Report No. 116–24] 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 7, 2019 

Mr. WALKER (for himself and Mr. KING of New York) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 

MARCH 28, 2019 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 7, 2019] 


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A BILL 

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 amended 

11 by inserting after section 210E the following new section: 

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

13 NUCLEAR INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION 

14 SHARING. 

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

16 Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security shall— 

17 ‘‘(1) support homeland security-focused intel18 ligence analysis of terrorist actors, their claims, and 

19 their plans to conduct attacks involving chemical, bio20 logical, radiological, or nuclear materials against the 

21 United States, including critical infrastructure; 

22 ‘‘(2) support homeland security-focused intel23 ligence analysis of global infectious disease, public 

24 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, nu5 clear, and radiological materials, by providing rel6 evant quantitative and nonquantitative threat infor7 mation; 

8 ‘‘(4) leverage existing and emerging homeland se9 curity intelligence capabilities and structures to en10 hance 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 ana14 lytical support on such threats to State, local, Tribal, 

15 and territorial authorities, and other Federal agen16 cies, as well as relevant national biosecurity and bio17 defense stakeholders, as appropriate; and 

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

19 by the Secretary. 

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

21 Intelligence and Analysis shall coordinate with other rel22 evant Department components, including the Countering 

23 Weapons of Mass Destruction Office and the National Bio24 surveillance Integration Center, agencies within the intel25 ligence community, including the National Counter ProVerDate Sep 11 2014 20:55 Mar 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6203 E:\BILLS\H1589.RH H1589

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1 liferation Center, and other Federal, State, local, Tribal, 

2 and territorial authorities, including officials from high3 threat urban areas, State and major urban area fusion cen4 ters, and local public health departments, as appropriate, 

5 and enable such entities to provide recommendations on op6 timal information sharing mechanisms, including expedi7 tious sharing of classified information, and on how such 

8 entities can provide information to the Department. 

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

10 ‘‘(1) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—The term ‘in11 telligence community’ has the meaning given such 

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

13 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 

14 ‘‘(2) NATIONAL BIOSECURITY AND BIODEFENSE

15 STAKEHOLDERS.—The term ‘national biosecurity and 

16 biodefense stakeholders’ means officials from Federal, 

17 State, local, Tribal, and territorial authorities and 

18 individuals from the private sector who are involved 

19 in efforts to prevent, protect against, respond to, and 

20 recover from a biological attack or other phenomena 

21 that may have serious health consequences for the 

22 United States, including infectious disease out23 breaks.’’. 

24 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 

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


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1 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

2 210E the following new item: 

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

3 (c) REPORT.— 

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

5 the date of the enactment of this Act and annually 

6 thereafter for each of the following four years, the Sec7 retary of Homeland Security shall report to the ap8 propriate congressional committees on the following: 

9 (A) The intelligence and information shar10 ing activities under section 210F of the Home11 land Security Act of 2002 (as added by sub12 section (a) of this section) and of all relevant en13 tities within the Department of Homeland Secu14 rity to counter the threat from attacks using 

15 chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear ma16 terials. 

17 (B) The Department’s activities in accord18 ance with relevant intelligence strategies. 

19 (2) ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION.—The re20 ports required under paragraph (1) shall include the 

21 following: 

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1 ment of Homeland Security in implementing 

2 such section 210F. 

3 (B) A description of the methods established 

4 to carry out such assessment. 

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

6 ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means the 

7 Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 

8 Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Se9 curity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and 

10 any committee of the House of Representatives or the 

11 Senate having legislative jurisdiction under the rules 

12 of the House of Representatives or Senate, respec13 tively, over the matter concerned. 

14 SEC. 3. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ANALYZED BY 

15 THE DEPARTMENT TO STATE, LOCAL, TRIBAL, 

16 TERRITORIAL, AND PRIVATE ENTITIES WITH 

17 RESPONSIBILITIES RELATING TO HOMELAND 

18 SECURITY. 

19 Paragraph (6) of section 201(d) of the Homeland Secu20 rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121(d)) is amended by striking 

21 ‘‘and to agencies of State’’ and all that follows through the 

22 period at the end and inserting ‘‘to State, local, tribal, ter23 ritorial, and private entities with such responsibilities, and, 

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1 venting, deterring, or responding to acts of terrorism 

2 against the United States.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 10 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1589 

[Report No. 116–24] 

A BILL 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 

other purposes. sibilities relating to homeland security, and for lyzed by the Department to entities with responand to require dissemination of information anaysis of the Department of Homeland Security functions of the Office of Intelligence and Analnuclear intelligence and information sharing establish chemical, biological, radiological, and 

MARCH 28, 2019 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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