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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5485 

To expand the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium to include the 

SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness. 

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 

A BILL 

To expand the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium 

to include the SUNY National Center for Security and 

Preparedness. 

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 ‘‘National Domestic 

5 Preparedness Consortium Enhancement Act of 2010’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds that— 


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1 (1) the State University of New York (SUNY) 

2 is the Nation’s largest comprehensive system of pub3 lic higher education, comprising 64 campuses across 

4 the State of New York; 

5 (2) the SUNY National Center for Security and 

6 Preparedness oversees a coordinated strategy to le7 verage the resources of all 64 SUNY campuses to 

8 develop homeland security training programs and to 

9 apply SUNY’s homeland security research expertise; 

10 (3) the SUNY National Center for Security and 

11 Preparedness and the SUNY campuses provide ex12 traordinary capabilities to help the Nation in the 

13 areas of intelligence, preparedness, protection anal14 ysis, information sharing, and critical decision15 making; 

16 (4) the SUNY National Center for Security and 

17 Preparedness is poised to create a program in the 

18 areas of intelligence, preparedness, protection anal19 ysis, information sharing, and critical decision20 making; 

21 (5) the management team of the SUNY Na22 tional Center for Security and Preparedness has 

23 many years of experience with working with the Na24 tional Domestic Preparedness Consortium; 


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1 (6) the SUNY National Center for Security and 

2 Preparedness has established partnerships that will 

3 allow the SUNY National Center for Security and 

4 Preparedness immediately to identify and certify in5 structors, pilot and certify courses, and set up an in6 frastructure that is compatible with the reporting re7 quirements of the Department of Homeland Secu8 rity; and 

9 (7) none of the member institutions of the Na10 tional Domestic Preparedness Consortium of the De11 partment of Homeland Security are currently focus12 ing on providing training in the areas of intelligence, 

13 protection analysis, information sharing, and critical 

14 decisionmaking. 

15 SEC. 3. ENHANCEMENT OF NATIONAL DOMESTIC PRE16 PAREDNESS CONSORTIUM. 

17 The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium of 

18 the Department of Homeland Security shall include the 

19 SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness in 

20 order to train State, local, and tribal emergency response 

21 providers to prepare for and respond to acts of terrorism, 

22 including weapons of mass destruction. 

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