Community Security Act

Bill: 108-s-2459
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the Senate
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: 2004-05-20
text: 
Community Security Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a volunteer first responder employee tax credit. Allows a deduction for a volunteer first responder for training expenses.
 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct: (1) the Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response to establish a standard of basic preparedness for local first responders and to provide for the award of need-based, competitive grants to States and local governments for basic personal equipment and communications enhancement needed to perform disaster response, mitigation, and recovery missions; and (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a Homeland Security Competitive Research Grant Program and to award research grants to colleges and universities for purposes including understanding how the Homeland Security Advisory System operates as a useful communication tool for citizens.
 
Amends: (1) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible entities to pay the Federal share of the cost of carrying out activities including training elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators to identify and prevent avoidable disasters, and to assist children in dealing with the aftermath of terrorism and disasters; and (2) the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide for financial assistance to affected State and local governments for school-based community mental health counseling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5958-5961)
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5956-5958)
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate