Title: Improving Fusion Centers' Access to Information Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Improving Fusion Centers' Access to Information Act
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Department of Homeland Security State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative to: (1) conduct outreach to state, local, and regional fusion centers to identify any gaps in information sharing and consult with other federal agencies to develop methods to address such gaps; and (2) identify federal databases and information systems that are appropriate for inclusion in the information sharing environment and coordinate with the appropriate federal agency to deploy or access such systems.
A fusion center serves as a focal point within the state and local environment for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between the federal government and state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2169 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2169

   To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance information 
   sharing in the Department of Homeland Security State, Local, and 
       Regional Fusion Center Initiative, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2017

  Mr. Katko (for himself, Mr. McCaul, and Mr. Keating) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance information 
   sharing in the Department of Homeland Security State, Local, and 
       Regional Fusion Center Initiative, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Improving Fusion Centers' Access to 
Information Act''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCED INFORMATION SHARING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 
              SECURITY STATE, LOCAL, AND REGIONAL FUSION CENTER 
              INITIATIVE.

    Subsection (b) of section 210A of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 124h) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting before the semicolon at 
        the end the following: ``and conduct outreach to such fusion 
        centers to identify any gaps in information sharing and consult 
        with other Federal agencies to develop methods to address such 
        gaps, as appropriate'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (12) as 
        paragraphs (4) through (13), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(3) identify Federal databases and information systems, 
        including systems used, operated, or managed by Department 
        components, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the 
        Department of the Treasury, that are appropriate for inclusion 
        in the information sharing environment and coordinate with the 
        appropriate Federal agency to deploy or access such systems;''.
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