Homeland Emergency Response Operations Act

Bill: 109-s-3456
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Afghanistan
Air defenses
Air piracy
Airline passenger traffic
Alliances
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Arms control negotiations
Arms control verification
Arts, Culture, Religion
Aviation safety
Biological warfare
Bombings
Border patrols
Boundaries
Cabinet officers
Central Asia
Central Intelligence Agency
Charitable contributions
Chemical warfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Computer crimes
Computer security measures
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional committee membership
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cultural relations
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of State
Detention of persons
Diplomacy
Director of National Intelligence
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Energy
Energy research
English language
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Equipment and supplies
Europe
Exchange of persons programs
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Explosives
Export controls
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal preemption
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fingerprints
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Fissionable materials
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign service
Former Soviet states
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Higher education
House Appropriations
House Homeland Security
House Intelligence
Human rights
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Immigration
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intelligence officers
International Affairs
International broadcasting
International cooperation
Islamic fundamentalism
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability (Law)
Libraries
Medical research
Middle East and North Africa
Military strategy
Military technology
Minorities
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Pakistan
Paramedical personnel
Passports
Planning
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
President and foreign policy
Prisoners of war
Prisoners' rights
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Radio spectrum allocation
Religion
Rescue work
Research and development
Restoration ecology
Right of privacy
Risk
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Security clearances
Security measures
Senate Intelligence
September 11, 2001
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
South Asia
Standards
State laws
State-local relations
Tactical nuclear weapons
Technology transfer
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety
Travel
United Nations
Volunteer workers
Weapons of mass destruction
Women
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-06
text: 
Ensuring Implementation of the 9/11 Commission Report Act - Homeland Emergency Response Operations Act or the HERO Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to complete assignment of the electromagnetic spectrum for public safety services to permit operation by January 1, 2007.
 
Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant program to assist state and local governments in achieving essential capabilities for terrorism preparedness. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an Office of the Comptroller within the Office for Domestic Preparedness, a First Responder Grants Board, and a Task Force on Terrorism Preparedness for First Responders; and (2) promulgate national voluntary standards for first responder equipment.
 
Requires reports by: (1) DHS on a unified incident command system, a national critical infrastructure risk and vulnerabilities assessment, the comprehensive screening system, a biometric entry and exit data system, international collaboration on border and document security, and standardization of secure identification; (2) the Comptroller General on private sector preparedness, federal first responder training programs, and terrorist watch list consolidation; (3) the Secretary of Transportation on a national strategy for transportation security and on airline passenger screening; (4) the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center on collection and analysis of intelligence on terrorist travel; and (5) the Commissioner of Social Security on social security card security enhancements.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require fingerprints in passports.
 
Requires specified reports on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and the policy goals of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. 
 
Requires certification by the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense as to whether the federal government has implemented the policy goals and the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States regarding homeland and airspace defense.
 
Requires semiannual reports by the Secretary of Defense describing the plans and strategies of the U.S. Northern Command. 
 
9/11 Commission Civil Liberties Board Act - Revises provisions concerning the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Provides for the designation of privacy and civil liberties officers. 
 
Revises provisions concerning the House and Senate intelligence committees.
 
Requires public disclosure by the President of certain intelligence funding.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress respecting: (1) Afghanistan; (2) Pakistan; (3) Saudi Arabia; (4) coalition strategy against Islamic terrorism; (5) the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI); (6) the Proliferation Security Initiative; and (7) nuclear weapons and materials security standards.
 
Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) terrorist sanctuary elimination; (2) standards for detention and humane treatment of captured terrorists; (3) economic policies to combat terrorism; (4) terrorist financing; and (5) public diplomacy, scholarship, exchange, and library programs in the Islamic world, and international broadcasting;
 
Omnibus Nonproliferation and Anti-Nuclear Terrorism Act of 2006 - Establishes the Office of Nonproliferation Programs in the Executive Office of the President. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) removal of certain restrictions on cooperative threat reduction and energy nonproliferation programs, and modification of such programs' fund use outside the former Soviet Union; (2) the Global Threat Reduction Initiative; (3) Russia's nuclear weapons; (4) research and development of alternative use of weapons of mass destruction expertise; and (5) strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2006-06-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5505-5506)
action_date: 2006-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate