9/11 Commission Report Implementation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2774
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2004-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Advice and consent of the Senate
Afghanistan
Air cargo
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Aliens
Appropriations
Arab-Israeli conflict
Arabs
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arts, Culture, Religion
Border patrols
Building construction
Business education
Central Intelligence Agency
Chief information officers
Child health
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Classified defense information
Clergy
Coast guard
Commerce
Computer matching
Computer security measures
Congress
Congressional committee membership
Congressional committee staffing
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional joint committees
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional sessions
Construction costs
Consultants
Consumer credit
Counterfeiting
Counterintelligence
Covert operations
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Cultural relations
Customs unions
Data banks
Defense budgets
Democracy
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Detention of persons
Dictators
Diplomacy
Directories
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
District of Columbia
Diversification in industry
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
EBB Terrorism
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational exchanges
Educational technology
Election candidates
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Electronic surveillance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Exchange of persons programs
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Expedited congressional procedure
Explosives
Families
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Communications Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Federal installations
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Free enterprise
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Government contractors
Government ethics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grievance procedures
Health
Higher education
Hospitals
House Intelligence
House rules and procedure
Human engineering
Human rights
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Identity theft
Immigration
Independent regulatory commissions
Information networks
Information technology
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Inspectors general
Insurance companies
Intelligence community staff
Intelligence officers
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Intergovernmental relations
International Affairs
International agencies
International banking
International broadcasting
International cooperation
International education
Interstate compacts
Islamic countries
Islamic fundamentalism
Labor and Employment
Land mines
Language and languages
Law
Law enforcement officers
Legislation
Liability insurance
Libraries
Licenses
Literacy programs
Maryland
Medical personnel
Metropolitan areas
Middle East and North Africa
Military and naval offenses
Military assistance
Military intelligence
Military readiness
Military training
Minesweeping
Minorities
Minorities in government
Minority employment
Muslims
Native Americans
Nongovernmental organizations
Nontariff trade barriers
Nuclear nonproliferation
Office of Personnel Management
Official secrets
Opium
Pakistan
Paramedical personnel
Paramilitary forces
Passports
Peace negotiations
Peacekeeping forces
Performance measurement
Personnel management
Planning
Planning-programming-budgeting
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Police
Police training
Political participation
Polygraphs
Poor children
Presidential appointments
Presidential elections
Presidential inaugurations
Presidential transitions
Prisoners of war
Prisoners' rights
Promotions
Prosecution
Public demonstrations
Public health
Public records
Public schools
Public-private partnerships
Punishment
Radio broadcasting
Radio spectrum allocation
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Religious liberty
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rescue work
Research and development
Right of privacy
Risk
Rule of law
Russia
Salaries
Saudi Arabia
Scholarships
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Secondary education
Security classification (Government documents)
Security clearances
Security measures
Senate Intelligence
Senate rules and procedure
Smuggling
Social Security Administration
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
South Asia
Special forces (Military science)

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: 
9/11 Commission Report Implementation Act of 2004 - National Intelligence Authority Act of 2004 - Establishes as an independent executive entity the National Intelligence Authority (Authority), headed by a National Intelligence Director (Director), to, among other things: (1) unify and strengthen efforts of the intelligence community (IC); (2) operate the National Counterterrorism Center and national intelligence centers; and (3) establish clear responsibility and accountability for counterterrorism and other intelligence matters relating to U.S. national security. Requires the Director to: (1) serve as the head of the IC; (2) advise the President on intelligence related to national security; and (3) direct, manage, and oversee the execution of the National Intelligence Program (formerly the National Foreign Intelligence Program).
 
Establishes a National Intelligence Council (Council) to produce national intelligence estimates for the U.S. Government and evaluate the collection and production of intelligence by the IC.
 
Establishes a National Counterterrorism Center (Center) to: (1) unify strategy for U.S. civilian and military counterterrorism efforts; and (2) integrate counterterrorism intelligence and operations across agency boundaries, both inside and outside the United States.
 
Requires the President to publicly disclose certain intelligence funding information for fiscal years after 2005.
 
Merges the Homeland Security Council into the Council.
 
Maintains within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) the direction and execution of clandestine and covert operations. 
 
Makes the Secretary of Defense responsible for directing and executing paramilitary operations, whether clandestine or covert. 
 
Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to develop and maintain within the FBI a national security workforce of agents, analysts, linguists, and surveillance specialists.
 
Directs the President to: (1) establish an information sharing network to promote the sharing of terrorism information among all relevant Federal departments and agencies, State, tribal, and local authorities, and private sector entities in a manner consistent with national security and the protection of privacy and civil liberties; and (2) submit to Congress a network system design and implementation plan. Establishes an Advisory Council on Information Sharing.
 
Prohibits the 108th Congress from adjourning until jurisdiction over proposed legislation and other matters relating to: (1) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is consolidated into a single committee in each House with a nonpartisan staff; and (2) intelligence resides in a joint committee or a committee with combined authorization and appropriations authority, with a subcommittee devoted solely to oversight.
 
Requires the President-elect to be provided detailed, classified summaries by relevant outgoing executive officials of specific operational threats to national security, major military or covert operations, and pending decisions on possible use of military force. Outlines procedures for the President-elect to designate, the FBI to investigate, and the Senate to expeditiously consider nominees for high-level national security positions.
 
Requires specified reports from the President to Congress concerning, among other things: (1) terrorist sanctuaries; (2) efforts to support Pakistan; (3) aid to Afghanistan; (4) the U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship; (5) a strategy to help win the struggle of ideas within the Islamic world; (6) proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and (7) efforts to curtail the international financing of terrorism.
 
Provides, through specified activities of the Secretary of State, for the expansion of international educational and cultural exchange programs between the United States and countries with sizable Muslim populations.
 
Directs the President to establish an International Youth Opportunity Fund to provide financial assistance for the improvement of public education in the Middle East.
 
Authorizes the President to establish an international counterterrorism policy contact group with leaders of governments of other countries to develop a comprehensive coalition strategy to fight Islamist terrorism.
 
States U.S. policy concerning the humane treatment of prisoners.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to submit to Congress a: (1) strategy for combining terrorist travel intelligence, operations, and law enforcement into a cohesive effort to intercept terrorists, find terrorist travel facilitators, and constrain terrorist mobility domestically and internationally; and (2) plan describing how DHS and the State Department can acquire and deploy, to all consulates, ports of entry, and immigration benefits offices, technologies that facilitate document authentication and the detection of potential terrorist indicators on travel documents.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop plans: (1) for a comprehensive integrated screening system; (2) to accelerate the full implementation of an automated biometric entry and exit data system for preventing the entry of terrorists; (3) to expedite the processing of registered travelers who enter and exit the United States through a single registered traveler program; and (4) to require biometric passports and other secure identification for all travel into the United States by U.S. citizens and individuals for whom immigration and nationality documentation requirements have previously been waived.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop, implement, and revise as necessary a National Strategy for Transportation Security for the protection from terrorist or other hostile acts of all transportation infrastructure assets.
 
Directs the Secretary to allocate homeland security assistance grants to communities based on threat levels, presence of critical infrastructure, population density, and other criteria.
 
Calls for adoption by all appropriate entities of the Incident Command System (a national, coordinated emergency response system developed by the National Incident Management System).
 
Authorizes specified officials of the National Capital Region to enter into, provide, or request from other Region entities mutual aid assistance for emergency services related to a terrorist or other hostile act.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage and support the establishment of consistent and effective communications capabilities in high risk urban areas; (2) establish a program to promote private sector preparedness; (3) undertake certain critical infrastructure readiness assessments; and (4) regularly assess the adequacy of the United States Northern Command to respond to all military and paramilitary threats within the United States.
 
Establishes within the Executive Office of the President a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 692.
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8884-8915)
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8864-8866)
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate