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Union Calendar No. 510 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2356 
[Report No. 112–665, Part I] 
To enhance homeland security by improving efforts to prevent, protect 
against, respond to, and recover from an attack with a weapon of 
mass destruction, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 24, 2011 
Mr. PASCRELL (for himself, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. THOMPSON of Mis-
sissippi, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, Ms. CLARKE of New 
York, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Ms. RICHARDSON, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. 
CLARKE of Michigan, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, and Mr. MEEHAN) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and 
Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Foreign Affairs, and Se-
lect Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 
Reported from the Committee on Homeland Security with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 
Referral to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and In-
frastructure, Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence extended for a period ending not later than November 30, 
2012 
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 
Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology for a period 
ending not later than November 30, 2012, for consideration of such pro-
visions of the bill and amendment as fall within the jurisdiction of that 
committee pursuant to clause 1(p), rule X 
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NOVEMBER 30, 2012 
The Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastruc-
ture, Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 
and Science, Space, and Technology discharged; committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be 
printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 24, 2011] 
A BILL 
To enhance homeland security by improving efforts to pre-
vent, protect against, respond to, and recover from an 
attack with a weapon of mass destruction, and for other 
purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2012’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—A NATIONAL BIODEFENSE ENTERPRISE 
Sec. 101. Special Assistant for Biodefense. 
Sec. 102. National Biodefense Plan. 
Sec. 103. National Biosurveillance Strategy. 
Sec. 104. Comprehensive cross-cutting biodefense budget analysis. 
TITLE II—INTELLIGENCE MATTERS 
Sec. 201. National Intelligence Strategy for Countering the Threat from Weapons 
of Mass Destruction. 
Sec. 202. National Intelligence Strategy for Countering Biological Threats. 
Sec. 203. State, local, and tribal defined. 
TITLE III—HOMELAND SECURITY MATTERS 
Sec. 301. Weapons of mass destruction prevention and preparedness. 
‘‘TITLE XXI—WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PREVENTION AND 
PREPAREDNESS 
‘‘Subtitle A—Prevention 
‘‘Sec. 2101. Weapons of mass destruction intelligence and information shar-
ing. 
‘‘Sec. 2102. Risk assessments. 
‘‘Sec. 2103. National Export Enforcement Coordination. 
‘‘Sec. 2104. Communication of threat information. 
‘‘Sec. 2105. Individual and community preparedness for chemical, biological, 
radiological, and nuclear attacks. 
‘‘Subtitle B—Protection 
‘‘Sec. 2121. Detection of biological attacks. 
‘‘Sec. 2122. Rapid biological threat detection and identification at ports of 
entry. 
‘‘Sec. 2123. Evaluating detection technology. 
‘‘Sec. 2124. Domestic implementation of the Global Nuclear Detection Archi-
tecture. 
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