Community Security Act

Bill: 108-hr-5159
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2004-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Colleges
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Decision making
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Disasters
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Equipment and supplies
Evacuation of civilians
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to research
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health counseling
Higher education
Human engineering
Income tax
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Mental health services
Paramedical personnel
Police
Problem children
Rescue work
Research grants
Safety appliances
School administration
School health programs
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
Standards
Stress (Psychology)
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Teachers
Technological innovations
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation research
Travel costs
Volunteer workers
Wages
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
Community Security Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to give business tax credits to employers of volunteer first responders. Provides individual tax deductions for travel and training expenses of such volunteers.
 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a local critical need homeland security grant program for first responders. Requires the Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response to establish a standard of basic preparedness for local first responders. Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to award grants to States and localities for basic personal equipment and communications enhancement for disaster response, mitigation, and recovery missions.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a safe schools through mental health grant program to: (1) train school personnel to identify and prevent avoidable disasters and to assist children in dealing with the aftermath; (2) provide school-based mental health services; and (3) provide such services to students who face or have faced disciplinary action.
 
Establishes a school-based disaster mitigation refund program.
 
Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide financial assistance to affected State and local governments for school-based community mental health counseling.
 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a Homeland Security Competitive Research Grant Program to award grants to universities and colleges for homeland security-related research.
 
Establishes a program to award research grants to colleges and universities to examine the social dimensions of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2004-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2004-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2004-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2004-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in House