Promoting Antiterrorism Capabilities Through International Cooperation Act

Bill: 109-hr-4942
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2006-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Africa
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Agriculture and Food
Animal diseases
Animals
Australia
Biological warfare
Canada
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
East Asia
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Engineers
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
International Affairs
International cooperation
International cooperation in science
Israel
Joint ventures
Laboratories
Middle East and North Africa
Oceania
Plant diseases
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientific exchanges
Scientists
Singapore
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Terrorism
United Kingdom
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: 
Promoting Antiterrorism Capabilities Through International Cooperation Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Under Secretary for Science and Technology to establish the Science and Technology Homeland Security International Cooperative Programs Office, headed by a Director who shall be responsible for developing mechanisms, legal frameworks, and strategic priorities for international cooperative activity in support of homeland security research.
 
Requires the Director to facilitate: (1) the planning, development, and implementation of such activity; and (2) the matching of U.S. entities with non-U.S. entities that may partner in homeland security research activities.
 
Requires the Director periodically to hold international homeland security technology workshops and conferences.
 
Provides for the allocation of specified research, development, testing, and evaluation funds of the Directorate of Science and Technology for activities under this Act. Requires the Director to: (1) ensure that funding and resources expended in international cooperative activity will be equitably matched by the foreign partner organization; and (2) work to facilitate development of information sharing and other types of cooperative mechanisms for situational awareness of the genomics and proteomics of exotic animal disease, including with African nations. Provides that partners shall include Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and other allies in the global war on terrorism.
 
 

action_date: 2006-09-26
text: 
Promoting Antiterrorism Capabilities Through International Cooperation Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to carry out international cooperative activities and, in carrying out such activities, to: (1) conduct such activities jointly with other agencies; (2) award grants and enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with U.S. governmental organizations, businesses, federally funded research and development centers, institutions of higher education, and foreign public or private entities; (3) form partnerships with U.S. allies in the global war on terrorism; and (4) facilitate the development of information sharing and other cooperative mechanisms with foreign countries to strengthen American preparedness against threats to the nation's agricultural and public health sectors from exotic diseases. Directs the Under Secretary to ensure that funding and resources expended in international cooperative activities will be equitably matched by the foreign partner organization.
 
Directs the Under Secretary to establish the Science and Technology Homeland Security International Cooperative Program to facilitate international cooperative activities throughout the Science and Technology Directorate. Provides that the Program shall be headed by a Director, who shall be responsible for developing mechanisms and legal frameworks to allow and to support international cooperative activities in support of homeland security research. Requires the Director to: (1) facilitate the matching of U.S. entities with non-U.S. entities that may partner in homeland security research activities; (2) ensure that activities are coordinated with those of other DHS components and other relevant research agencies; and (3) periodically support the planning and execution of international homeland security technology workshops and conferences.
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary, to be derived from amounts otherwise authorized for the Directorate, for international cooperative activities for each of FY2007-FY2010. 
 
Requires the Under Secretary, acting through the Director, to report to Congress every five years on partnerships formed and international cooperative activities underway.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7433-7434)
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7433-7434)
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4942.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7433-7437)
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Mr. King (NY) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 407.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 109-674.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 109-674.
action_date: 2006-06-14
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
action_date: 2006-06-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: Introduced in House