I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6339 
To establish the Homeland Security Community Mobilization Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 5, 2006 
Mr. OWENS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Transportation and Infrastructure and Energy and Commerce, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish the Homeland Security Community Mobilization 
Program. 
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 
Community Mobilization Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) There has been a substantial increase in 
poverty within the United States during the past five 
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years. The greatest concentration of poverty exists 
in large metropolitan areas. 
(2) The plight of the poor in New Orleans, 
Louisiana, as revealed during the Katrina hurricane 
and the flood it caused poses a considerable threat 
to health and life and creates conditions that foster 
a total breakdown of civil society. 
(3) The rescue and survival effort during the 
Katrina disaster was greatly impeded by the lack of 
engagement and contact with institutions and proce-
dures of the mainstream world. 
(4) The lack of employment is at the center of 
problems impacting on the poor and the primary 
antidote to alleviation would be jobs. 
(5) Within the Community Service Agency 
(CSA) there is a structure in place presently capable 
of rapidly implementing programs geared to help the 
poor. Through this Act, in alignment with the Com-
munity Services Block Grant’s purpose to provide 
members of the community with meaningful employ-
ment, low-income residents of metropolitan areas 
can be engaged in a beneficially meaningful way 
while providing a vital service to their communities. 
(6) The structure established to implement the 
Faith Based Initiative project is also immediately 
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adoptable for the implementation of programs to em-
ploy, train, counsel and place low-income residents 
in permanent jobs. 
(7) The shamefully slow pace of disaster recov-
ery in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area dem-
onstrates a need for emergency action by the Con-
gress. 
(8) Circumstances require the launching of pilot 
projects in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans and at 
least nine other at-risk cities where recently released 
surveys and studies have shown significant increases 
in poverty. 
SEC. 3. HOMELAND SECURITY COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION 
PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—There is hereby 
established the Homeland Security Community Mobiliza-
tion Program (hereafter in this Act referred to as the 
‘‘Program’’, which shall be administered under the author-
ity of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (here-
after in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’). 
(b) PILOT PROJECTS.—To implement the Program, 
the Secretary may make grants to local entities in 10 met-
ropolitan areas (including the city of New Orleans, Lou-
isiana) to carry out pilot projects that— 
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(1) provide emergency response training to low- 
income adults and youth to prepare them to provide 
emergency assistance in metropolitan areas during 
disasters (These individuals will provide neighbor-
hood response to natural disasters and terrorist at-
tacks and shall be trained to work as Neighborhood 
Emergency Response Operators.), 
(2) provide job training and financial assistance 
to families with children in school. Families with in-
comes under the poverty line with children in school 
shall receive priority for support (Stipends shall be 
made available for travel costs and other expenses 
incurred for attendance in school-related meetings. 
Cash award incentives shall also be made available 
for improved student performance. Participants shall 
be trained to work as Informed Parent Program 
Specialists.), 
(3) provide community education and school 
support (Programs shall be established that organize 
parents and volunteers to assist schools in such 
areas as school safety, student discipline, after- 
school and weekend extracurricular activities, phys-
ical education and sports activities, and assistance 
with truant and delinquent children. Entry level job 
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training shall be developed for School Community 
Coordinators.), 
(4) provide juvenile delinquency prevention pro-
grams and youth counseling (Programs shall be es-
tablished which focus on at-risk youth and are 
geared primarily to youth with identified problems. 
Such programs shall work with family courts and ju-
venile detention centers as well as work with school 
counselors. Individuals shall be trained to work as 
Youth Ombudsman and Child Advocates.), 
(5) provide entrepreneurial business develop-
ment training for youth (Programs shall be estab-
lished which place low-income youth in local business 
internship positions for the purpose of teaching 
them the fundamentals of small business operations 
and preparing them to establish and operate small 
concessions and other entrepreneurial enterprises. 
Individuals shall be trained to work as Young Com-
munity Leader Trainees.), and 
(6) provide family health care information and 
solutions (Programs shall be established to train citi-
zens to monitor areas of potential terrorist attacks 
and low-level germ warfare and to be first respond-
ers to such situations. Trainees shall also make 
available to citizens of the community greater 
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