Ready, Willing, and Able Act

Bill: 109-hr-3565
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Biological warfare
Citizen participation
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Planning
Public health
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Urban affairs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Ready, Willing, and Able Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting jointly, to establish a working group to assist their respective departments to: (1) promote the development of disaster plans that will protect the maximum number of citizens; (2) help state and local officials provide the necessary means and infrastructure for the American public to volunteer to assume a direct and influential role in community-based disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation planning efforts; and (3) develop standards to measure the success of a community's level of direct, participatory disaster planning efforts.
 

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the requirements for a state application for a grant to improve state, local, and hospital preparedness for and response to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies. Requires the application to include an assurance that the state will take specific steps to comply with any recommendations of the working group.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Homeland Security, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Homeland Security, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Homeland Security, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Homeland Security, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House