I 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4930
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance homeland security 
information sharing and analysis, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 22, 2004
Mr. COX (for himself and Mr. GIBBONS) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 
and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform and Select 
Homeland Security, 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 amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance 
homeland security information sharing and analysis, 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 and Analysis Enhancement Act of 
2004’’.
SEC. 2. INFORMATION COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS AND 
PRIORITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 102 of the Homeland Se-
curity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 112) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and 
(g), as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing new subsection (e): 
‘‘(e) PARTICIPATION IN FOREIGN COLLECTION RE-
QUIREMENTS AND MANAGEMENT PROCESSES.—The Sec-
retary shall be a member of any Federal Government 
interagency board, established by executive order or any 
other binding interagency directive, that is responsible for 
establishing foreign collection information requirements 
and priorities for estimative analysis.’’. 
(b) HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION REQUIRE-
MENTS BOARD.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Title I of such Act (6 U.S.C. 
111 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 104. HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION REQUIRE-
MENTS BOARD. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF BOARD.—There is estab-
lished an interagency Homeland Security Information Re-
quirements Board (hereinafter in this section referred to 
as the ‘Information Requirements Board’).
‘‘(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The following officials are mem-
bers of the Information Requirements Board: 
‘‘(1) The Secretary of Homeland Security, who 
shall serve as the chairman of the Information Re-
quirements Board. 
‘‘(2) The Attorney General. 
‘‘(3) The Secretary of Commerce. 
‘‘(4) The Secretary of the Treasury. 
‘‘(5) The Secretary of Defense. 
‘‘(6) The Secretary of Energy. 
‘‘(7) The Secretary of State. 
‘‘(8) The Director of Central Intelligence. 
‘‘(9) The Director of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation. 
‘‘(10) The Director of the Terrorist Threat In-
tegration Center or any successor entity. 
‘‘(11) The Chief Privacy Officer of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(c) FUNCTIONS.—
‘‘(1) OVERSIGHT OF HOMELAND SECURITY RE-
QUIREMENTS.—The 
Information 
Requirements 
Board shall oversee the process for establishing 
homeland security requirements and collection man-
agement for all terrorism-related information and all
other homeland security information (as defined in 
section 892(g)) collected within the United States. 
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION OF COLLECTION PRIOR-
ITIES.—The 
Information 
Requirements 
Board 
shall—
‘‘(A) determine the domestic information 
collection requirements for information relevant 
to the homeland security mission; and 
‘‘(B) prioritize the collection and use of 
such information. 
‘‘(3) COORDINATION OF COLLECTION REQUIRE-
MENTS AND MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.—
‘‘(A) COORDINATION WITH COUNTERPART 
AGENCIES.—The Chairman shall ensure that 
the Information Requirements Board carries 
out its activities in a manner that is fully co-
ordinated with Board’s counterpart entities. 
‘‘(B) PARTICIPATION
OF
COUNTERPART 
ENTITIES.—The Chairman and the Director of 
Central Intelligence shall ensure that each 
counterpart entity—
‘‘(i) has at least one representative on 
the Information Requirement Board and 
on every sub-component of the Board; and