To make certain amendments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

Bill: 108-hr-484
Sponsor: Rep. Ose, Doug [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Commerce
Computer security measures
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate mergers
Corporation taxes
Drug industry
Education
Engineering
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Information technology
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislation
Liability (Law)
Nuclear terrorism
Physicians
Products liability
Research and development
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Stockholders
Tax evasion
Taxation
Terrorism
Unemployment
Vaccination
Vaccines
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, to designate one or more university-based centers for homeland security. (Currently, the Secretary is required to establish one or more centers within one year after enactment of the Act.) Includes diagnostic medical services and information engineering as criteria for such designation. Authorizes the Secretary to except certain criteria and to consider additional criteria with respect to such designation in order to further homeland security interests.
Repeals provisions of the Act which amend the Public Health Service Act to revise definitions of vaccine, vaccine manufacturer, and vaccine-related injury or death.
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Committee on Energy and Commerce should report a bill addressing: (1) revitalizing immunization efforts by ensuring an adequate supply of vaccines and encouraging the development of new vaccines; and (2) ensuring that patients who have suffered vaccine-related injuries have an opportunity for fair redress and that vaccine manufacturers, physicians, and other administrators have adequate protections.
Removes the authority of the Secretary to waive a prohibition on contracts with corporate expatriates when the Secretary determines that the waiver will prevent either the loss of jobs in the United States or costs that the Government otherwise would not occur.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, and Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, and Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, and Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, and Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, and Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House