Anti-Terrorism and Port Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-173
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alien labor
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Arson
Assault
Bombings
Business records
Canals
Capital punishment
Coast guard
Commerce
Common carriers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Containerization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Criminal negligence
Customs administration
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of Transportation
Destruction of property
Driver licenses
Electronic data interchange
Embezzlement
Emergency Management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Explosives
Federal aid to transportation
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Harbors
Identification devices
Immigration
Informers
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Larceny
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Licenses
Liens
Lighting
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Merchant seamen
Merchant ships
Motor vehicle registration
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear terrorism
Obstruction of justice
Oil pollution
Passenger ships
Prosecution
Radiation
Radioactive wastes
Receiving stolen goods
Rescue work
Sabotage
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Security measures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
Ships
St. Lawrence Seaway
Standards
Territorial waters
Terrorism
Transportation of hazardous substances
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violence
Waste disposal in the ocean
Weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Anti-Terrorism and Port Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it unlawful to: (1) destroy or interfere with vessels or maritime facilities; (2) put destructive devices in U.S. waters; (3) use a dangerous weapon or explosive to try to kill someone on board a passenger vessel; (4) fail to heave to a vessel at the direction of an authorized Federal law enforcement official; (5) destroy an aid to maritime navigation maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation or the Coast Guard if this would endanger safe navigation; or (6) knowingly discharge or release a hazardous substance into U.S. navigable waters or the adjoining shoreline with intent to endanger human life, health, or welfare.
 
 Revises piracy and privateering laws, increasing penalties.
 
Requires the Attorney General to coordinate port-related crime data collection.
 
Designates the Captain-of-the-Port as the primary authority for seaport security at each port.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to establish criminal penalties for violations of prohibitions against falsity or lack of a cargo manifest, and increases civil penalties.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) develop a shipment profiling plan to track containers and shipments of merchandise to be imported; (2) submit to Congress a plan for inspecting merchandise and their transportation containers at foreign facilities before importation; (3) issue final regulations prescribing seaport security requirements; and (4) approve minimum standards for high security container seals and award grants to seal developers.
 
Requires Captains-of-the-Port to secure and protect all sensitive information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House