Winning the War on Terror Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5291
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Jim [D-TX-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative law judges
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Advice and consent of the Senate
Afghanistan
Air cargo
Air travel
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Alien labor
Aliens
Alliances
Americans in foreign countries
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Arms control
Arms sales
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Aviation safety
Biological warfare
Biotechnology
Border patrols
Boundaries
Bridges
Broadband
Building construction
Business education
Cameras
Canada
Chemical industries
Chemical warfare
Chemicals
Child health
China
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Clinical trials
Closed-circuit television
Coast guard
Commemorations
Commerce
Common carriers
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Computer matching
Computer security measures
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Containerization
Continuing education
Cost accounting
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Cultural relations
Customs administration
Damages
Data banks
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Democracy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Deportation
Detention of persons
Developing countries
Dictators
Directories
Disasters
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Dissenters
Diversification in industry
Dogs
Driver licenses
Drone aircraft
Drug abuse
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs
EBB Terrorism
East Asia
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Educational technology
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Electronic surveillance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Embassies
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Encryption
Energy
Environmental Protection
Evacuation of civilians
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Explosives
Families
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Flight crews
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign service
Foreign students
Foreign trade promotion
Fraud
Free enterprise
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government statistics
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grievance procedures
Harbors
Health
Health information systems
Higher education
Homicide
Human experimentation in medicine
Human rights
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Immigration
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Information networks
Information technology
Informers
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Injunctions
Inspectors general
Intellectual property
Intermodal transportation
International Affairs
International agencies
International broadcasting
International cooperation
International cooperation in science
Internet
Ionizing radiation
Islamic countries
Islamic fundamentalism
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Laboratory animals
Language and languages
Latin America
Law
Leases
Legal fees
Legislation
Libraries
Light rail transit
Literacy programs
Mandatory sentences
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Marine transportation
Mass rapid transit
Medical research
Mexicans
Mexico
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military education
Military intelligence
Military personnel
Military research
Military training
Minesweeping
Minorities
Motor buses
Muslims
Names
Native Americans
Nontariff trade barriers
North Korea
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Office of Management and Budget
Ombudsman
Opium
Opposition (Political science)
Pakistan
Paramedical personnel
Passports
Patrol aircraft
Patrol ships
Peacekeeping forces
Pedestrians
Performance measurement
Personnel management
Pharmaceutical research
Pipelines
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Poisons
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Political participation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: 
Winning the War on Terror Act of 2004 - Provides for increases in the numbers of U.S. special operations forces.
 
Provides counter-proliferation measures, including a Global Threat Reduction Initiative (to secure nuclear and radiological materials outside the United States) and radiological material threat assessments. Requires elimination of the U.S. chemical stockpile no later than the end of 2012.
 
Establishes a Terrorist Screening Center in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
 
Secure Borders Act - Institutes, or modifies, measures related to: (1) border infrastructure and monitoring, transportation workers and cargo containers, and public and tribal lands; (2) identification document standards; (3) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement staffing, detention and removal operations, informant aliens, and alien smuggling penalties; (4) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) foreign coordination, visa security, and the visa waiver program; and (5) immigration benefit functions, including identification techniques.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (the Secretary) to make grants for public transportation security. Directs the Secretary to develop public transportation best practices, public awareness, and security plans.
 
Requires a Memorandum of Agreement between the Secretaries of Homeland Security and of Transportation concerning their respective roles in public transportation security matters.
 
Secure Containers from Overseas and Seaports from Terrorism Act or Secure COAST Act - Requires establishment of security standards and verification procedures for maritime cargo containers moving within the intermodal transportation system. Imposes validation and inspection requirements, including deployment of radiation detection portal equipment at all ports of entry and a staffing assessment.
 
Authorizes appropriations for port security grants and requires funding for an information sharing and analysis capability within the maritime industry.
 
Increases funding for Coast Guard components associated with the Integrated Deepwater System. Increases authorized Coast Guard active duty personnel levels.
 
Requires aviation security measures that include provision of checked baggage screening for explosives, phaseout of passenger &quot;bag-matching&quot; programs, technology assessment, a shipping companies database, wireless flight crew communications, a national transportation security strategy, and passenger watchlists.
 
Private Sector Preparedness Act of 2004 - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and implement a private sector emergency preparedness program.
 
Sets forth requirements for promoting the sharing of intelligence and homeland security information.
 
Requires the Secretary to develop: (1) a plan for security critical infrastructure; and (2) a national biodefense strategy.
 
Rapid Pathogen Identification to Delivery of Cures Act - Requires a strategy and research programs to expedite the development and approval of countermeasures against novel or unknown pathogens or toxins.
 
Chemical Security Improvement Act of 2004 - Establishes procedures for assessment of the vulnerability of chemical sources to terrorist release and planning to address security concerns.
 
Authorizes establishment of a program to fund cybersecurity professional development programs. Creates a National Cybersecurity Office in DHS.
 
Connecting the Operations of National Networks of Emergency Communications Technologies for First Responders Act of 2004 - Establishes an Office of Wireless Public Safety Interoperable Communications and a program to fund communications interoperability improvements.
 
Strengthening Homeland Innovation to Emphasize Liberty, Democracy, and Privacy Act or the SHIELD Privacy Act - Requires designation of a Chief Privacy Officer within the Office of Management and Budget and of an official primarily responsible for privacy policy in each executive branch agency.
 
Establishes a Commission on Privacy, Freedom, and Homeland Security and a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
 
Homeland Security Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2004 - Revises DHS organizational provisions to institute certain civil rights and civil liberties safeguards.
 
Sets forth policies (and measures) regarding prevention of future international terrorism, including concerning: (1) the role of Pakistan; (2) the future of Afghanistan; (3) the U.S.-Saudi relationship; (4) politics, culture, and education in the Islamic world; and (5) the use of economic and trade policies as part of a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy.
 
Urges a comprehensive coalition strategy to fight Islamist terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, International Relations, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Science, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in House