Smarter Funding for all of America's Homeland Security Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5430
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2004-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Capital budgets
Chemical warfare
Classified defense information
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Energy
Energy security
Energy supplies
Equipment and supplies
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire fighters
Food safety
Food supply
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Local officials
Monuments and memorials
Nuclear terrorism
Paramedical personnel
Planning
Police
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radio spectrum allocation
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Security clearances
Security measures
Standards
State officials
State-local relations
Telephone
Terrorism
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2004-12-07
text: 
Smarter Funding for All of America's Homeland Security Act of 2004 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a State and Regional First Responder Grant Program under which the Secretary may make grants to States and eligible regional entities on the basis of the threat to a State or region's population and critical infrastructure, as determined by the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection.
 
 Requires the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary, to evaluate and prioritize grant applications, considering factors such as threats to the population, specific economic sectors, major communications nodes and transportation systems, specific elements of the food supply, the water and energy supplies, civic infrastructure and emergency response capabilities, and specific structures of symbolic national importance.
 
Bars the use of grant funds to supplant State or local funds that would otherwise be available for homeland security or first responder projects.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish the Advisory Council on First Responders, which shall report to the Secretary through the head of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination; and (2) revise the Homeland Security Advisory System to require that any designation of a threat level or other warning be accompanied by a designation of the geographic regions and economic sectors to which it applies.
 
Directs the Under Secretary for Science and Technology to conduct a study of whether there is a need to assign additional bands of frequencies of electromagnetic spectrum to assist first responders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-12-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-12-07
text: Introduced in House