Comprehensive Homeland Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-6
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Admission of nonimmigrants
Advice and consent of the Senate
Airline passenger traffic
Airspace (Law)
Aliens
Animals
Arrest
Arson
Biological warfare
Border patrols
Boundaries
Bridges
Canada
Capital investments
Central Intelligence Agency
Chemical warfare
Chemicals
Churches
Citizenship
Civil service retirement
Coast guard
Commerce
Community organization
Community policing
Computer crimes
Computer literacy
Computer security measures
Computer software
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Crimes against the elderly
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Crisis management
Customs administration
DNA
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of the Treasury
Deportation
Directories
Disaster relief
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs and youth
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Educational statistics
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Electronic mail systems
Electronic surveillance
Electronics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee selection
Employee training
Employment tests
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Equipment and supplies
Exchange of persons programs
Explosions
Explosives
Export controls
Families
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire departments
Firearms
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Forensic medicine
Forfeiture
Former Soviet states
Gangs
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health surveys
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Immigration
Independent regulatory commissions
Infrastructure
Intelligence community staff
International Affairs
International agencies
International cooperation
Internet
Interstate commerce
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Libraries
Licenses
Lighting
Maintenance and repair
Maps
Medical personnel
Minorities
Minority employment
National Guard
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Officer personnel
Passenger ships
Passports
Personnel records
Photography
Plutonium
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Police-community relations
Prosecution
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public prosecutors
Radiation victims
Radio
Radioactive wastes
Radioactivity
Railroad employees
Railroad engineering
Railroad finance
Railroad freight operations
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Railroad terminals
Railroads
Rating of employees
Recruiting of employees
Recycling of waste products
Religion
Remote sensing
Rescue work
Research and development
Research grants
Right of privacy
Russia
Sabotage
Salaries
School administration
School discipline
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Security clearances
Security measures
September 11, 2001
Sewage treatment
Smallpox
Social Welfare
Social science research
Social security numbers
Special forces (Military science)
Speed limits
State-sponsored terrorism
Storage
Student aid
Students
Suicide
Supervisors
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Telephone
Term limits
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation planning
Uranium
Uranium enrichment
Urban affairs
Urban areas
User charges
Vaccination
Vaccines
Video tape recording
Visas
Voiceprints
Wages
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water storage
Water supply
Water treatment plants
Weapons
Weapons of mass destruction
Web sites
Whistle blowing
Women
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Comprehensive Homeland Security Act of 2003 - First Responders Partnership Grant Act of 2003 - Sets forth a grants program to support homeland security activities of States, local governments, and Indian tribes public safety officers, including terrorism prevention and response.
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Act of 2003, or the "SAFER Act of 2003" - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Labor to make grants to eligible entities to pay for the Federal share of hiring career firefighters.
Nuclear Security Act of 2003 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to establish a Task Force on Nuclear Infrastructure Security (Task Force) to examine the protection of sensitive nuclear facilities from potential terrorist threats. Instructs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to promulgate regulations based upon task force recommendations.
Directs the President to establish the Nuclear Infrastructure Antiterrorism Team to protect the perimeter of sensitive nuclear facilities against threats .
Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to established in the (NRC) the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response.
Establishes within such Office the Security Response Unit.
Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize employees of NRC licensees to carry weapons.
Instructs the Task Force to: (1) evaluate the security of sensitive radioactive material against security threats; and (2) recommend actions for the maximum practicable security against security threats.
Rail Security Act of 2003 - Authorizes appropriations for Amtrak, conditioned upon Secretary of Transportation approval of an Amtrak plan that targets security, rehabilitation and upgrades, and engineering and financial considerations.
Sets forth criteria governing a mandatory assessment of rail transportation security risks.
Wastewater Treatment Works Security and Safety Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to mandate that vulnerability assessments and attendant emergency response plans be submitted to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to address immediate and urgent security needs.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to implement the National Smallpox Vaccination Program.
Establishes in the Treasury an Information Technology Fund to provide expenditures for information technology and related services for Federal agencies.
Prescribes guidelines under which a record pertaining to the vulnerability of and threats to critical infrastructure that is furnished voluntarily to the Department of Homeland Security shall not be made available either to the public or to other Federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act.
Prescribes responsibilities of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security for the interoperability of information systems.
Instructs the Secretary of State to implement a program to secure, consolidate, or eliminate, radiological and nuclear materials and waste located outside the United States that are determined to present a potential threat.
Instructs the President to implement a program to improve border security and strengthen export controls in Russia and other designated areas in order to decrease the potential for the spread of weapons of mass destruction and related materiel.
Intelligence Community Leadership Act of 2003 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish an Office of the Director of National Intelligence to assist the Director of National Intelligence.
Confers responsibility upon the Directorate for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (Department of Homeland Security) for consolidating law enforcement information with assessments and warnings relating to foreign intelligence from the Director of Central Intelligence's Counterterrorist Center.
Chemical Security Act of 2003 - Instructs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations designating certain combinations of chemical sources and substances of concern as high priority categories based on the severity of the threat posed by an unauthorized release from the chemical sources.
Subjects violations of such regulations to civil and criminal penalties.
Providing Reliable Officers, Technology, Education, Community Prosecutors, and Training in Our Neighborhoods Act of 2003, or "PROTECTION Act" - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize financial and technical assistance to designated law enforcement programs, including religiously-affiliated organizations and rural law enforcement programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 1/9/2003 S134)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate