I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5001 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance homeland security 
information sharing, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 16, 2006 
Mr. SIMMONS (for himself and Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance 
homeland security information sharing, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Homeland Security 
Information Sharing Enhancement Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS ON DISSEMINATION OF HOMELAND SE-
CURITY-RELATED INFORMATION. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Section 201(d)(1) of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 gives the Department of Homeland Se-
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curity authority to access, receive, and analyze law 
enforcement information, intelligence information, 
and other information from Federal, State, and local 
government agencies—including law enforcement 
agencies—and to integrate such information in order 
to detect, identify, and assess terrorist threats to the 
homeland. 
(2) Section 201(d)(4) of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 likewise gives the Department the power 
to ensure ‘‘timely and efficient access’’ to these cat-
egories of information in order to effectively dis-
charge its information sharing responsibilities. 
(3) Section 102A(f)(1)(B)(iii) of the National 
Security 
Act 
of 
1947 
(50 
U.S.C. 
403– 
1(f)(1)(B)(iii)), as amended by section 1011 of the 
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act 
of 2004, prohibits the Director of National Intel-
ligence from disseminating information directly to 
State and local government officials. 
(4) Under section 119(f)(1)(E) of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 404o(f)(1)(E)), as 
amended, 
the 
Director 
of 
the 
National 
Counterterrorism Center supports the responsibil-
ities of the Department of Homeland Security to dis-
seminate terrorism information. 
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(5) Section 201(d)(9) of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 gives the Department of Homeland Se-
curity the responsibility to disseminate information 
analyzed by the Department to other Federal, State, 
and local agencies with responsibilities relating to 
homeland security ‘‘in order to assist in the deter-
rence, prevention, preemption of, or response to, ter-
rorist attacks. . .’’. 
(6) Section 201(d)(11) of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121(d)(11)) explicitly 
gives the Department the responsibility to ensure 
‘‘appropriate exchanges of information, including law 
enforcement-related information, relating to threats 
of terrorism against the United States’’. 
(7) Section 201(d)(14) of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 gives the Department the responsi-
bility ‘‘to establish and utilize . . . a secure commu-
nications and information technology infrastructure 
. . . in order to access, receive, and analyze data’’ 
and to disseminate that data to State, local, and 
tribal law enforcement agencies as appropriate. 
SEC. 3. HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
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‘‘SEC. 203. HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY SYSTEM. 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Under Secretary for In-
formation and Analysis shall implement a Homeland Secu-
rity Advisory System in accordance with this section to 
provide public advisories and alerts regarding threats to 
homeland security, including national, regional, local, and 
economic sector advisories and alerts, as appropriate. 
‘‘(b) REQUIRED ELEMENTS.—The Under Secretary, 
under the System— 
‘‘(1) shall include, in each advisory and alert re-
garding a threat, information on appropriate protec-
tive measures and countermeasures that may be 
taken in response to the threat; 
‘‘(2) shall, whenever possible, limit the scope of 
each advisory and alert to a specific region, locality, 
or economic sector believed to be at risk; and 
‘‘(3) shall not, in issuing any advisory or alert, 
use color designations as the exclusive means of 
specifying the homeland security threat conditions 
that are the subject of the advisory or alert.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by adding at the 
end of the items relating to subtitle A of title II the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Sec. 203. Homeland Security Advisory System.’’. 
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SEC. 4. HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.), as 
amended by section 3, is further amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 204. HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING. 
‘‘(a) INFORMATION SHARING ENVIRONMENT.—Con-
sistent with section 1016 of the National Intelligence Re-
form and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 
485), the Secretary shall integrate and standardize the in-
formation of the intelligence components of the Depart-
ment into a Department information sharing environment, 
to be administered by the Under Secretary for Intelligence 
and Analysis. 
‘‘(b) INFORMATION
SHARING
AND
KNOWLEDGE 
MANAGEMENT OFFICERS.—For each intelligence compo-
nent of the Department, the Secretary shall designate an 
information sharing and knowledge management officer 
who shall report to the Under Secretary for Intelligence 
and Analysis with respect to coordinating the different 
systems used in the Department to gather and disseminate 
homeland security information. 
‘‘(c) STATE, LOCAL, AND PRIVATE-SECTOR SOURCES 
OF INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
BUSINESS
PROC-
ESSES.—The Under Secretary for Intelligence and 
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Analysis shall establish Department-wide procedures 
for the review and analysis of information gathered 
from State, local, tribal, and private-sector sources 
and, as appropriate, integrate such information into 
the information gathered by the Department and 
other department and agencies of the Federal Gov-
ernment. 
‘‘(2) FEEDBACK.—The Secretary shall develop 
mechanisms to provide analytical and operational 
feedback to any State, local, tribal, and private-sec-
tor entities that gather information and provide such 
information to the Secretary. 
‘‘(d) TRAINING AND EVALUATION OF EMPLOYEES.— 
‘‘(1) TRAINING.—The Under Secretary shall 
provide to employees of the Department opportuni-
ties for training and education to develop an under-
standing of the definition of homeland security infor-
mation, how information available to them as part of 
their duties might qualify as homeland security in-
formation, and how information available to them is 
relevant to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. 
‘‘(2) EVALUATIONS.—The Under Secretary 
shall, on an ongoing basis, evaluate how employees 
of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the in-
telligence components of the Department are uti-
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