I 
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 Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in 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. 
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 ‘‘National Domestic 
Preparedness Consortium Enhancement Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
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(1) the State University of New York (SUNY) 
is the Nation’s largest comprehensive system of pub-
lic higher education, comprising 64 campuses across 
the State of New York; 
(2) the SUNY National Center for Security and 
Preparedness oversees a coordinated strategy to le-
verage the resources of all 64 SUNY campuses to 
develop homeland security training programs and to 
apply SUNY’s homeland security research expertise; 
(3) the SUNY National Center for Security and 
Preparedness and the SUNY campuses provide ex-
traordinary capabilities to help the Nation in the 
areas of intelligence, preparedness, protection anal-
ysis, information sharing, and critical decision-
making; 
(4) the SUNY National Center for Security and 
Preparedness is poised to create a program in the 
areas of intelligence, preparedness, protection anal-
ysis, information sharing, and critical decision-
making; 
(5) the management team of the SUNY Na-
tional Center for Security and Preparedness has 
many years of experience with working with the Na-
tional Domestic Preparedness Consortium; 
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(6) the SUNY National Center for Security and 
Preparedness has established partnerships that will 
allow the SUNY National Center for Security and 
Preparedness immediately to identify and certify in-
structors, pilot and certify courses, and set up an in-
frastructure that is compatible with the reporting re-
quirements of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity; and 
(7) none of the member institutions of the Na-
tional Domestic Preparedness Consortium of the De-
partment of Homeland Security are currently focus-
ing on providing training in the areas of intelligence, 
protection analysis, information sharing, and critical 
decisionmaking. 
SEC. 3. ENHANCEMENT OF NATIONAL DOMESTIC PRE-
PAREDNESS CONSORTIUM. 
The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium of 
the Department of Homeland Security shall include the 
SUNY National Center for Security and Preparedness in 
order to train State, local, and tribal emergency response 
providers to prepare for and respond to acts of terrorism, 
including weapons of mass destruction. 
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