To provide for additional responsibilities for the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security relating to geospatial information.

Bill: 108-hr-3367
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2003-10-21 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Executive reorganization
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Geodesy
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Grants-in-aid
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Law
Maps
Minorities
Photography
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Remote sensing
Science, Technology, Communications
Space activities
Standards
Surveying
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: 
Directs the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish and carry out a program to provide for the efficient use of geospatial information, which shall include: (1) providing such geospatial information as may be necessary to implement the critical infrastructure protection programs; (2) providing leadership in meeting the requirements of, and populating the databases used by, those responsible for planning, prevention, mitigation, assessment and response to emergencies, critical infrastructure and other DHS functions; and (3) assuring interoperability and preventing unnecessary duplication of geospatial information among all users.
 Includes among the Chief Information Officer's responsibilities: (1) managing DHS geospatial information needs and activities; (2) establishing standards to assure the interoperability of geospatial information pertaining to homeland security among all users of such information within DHS, other agencies, State and local government, and the private sector; (3) coordinating with and providing liaison to the Federal Geographic Data Committee and carrying out DHS's responsibilities pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-16 and Executive Order 12906; (4) providing grants to fund data creation and to execute information sharing agreements with State, local, and tribal governments; and (5) ensuring that DHS utilizes available commercial geospatial data and services by awarding contracts to entities in the private sector.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Introduced in House