Homeland Security Trust Fund Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3989
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Afghanistan
Air cargo
Air defenses
Airline passenger traffic
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Aviation safety
Border patrols
Central Asia
Central Intelligence Agency
Chemical industries
Chemical warfare
Chemicals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Community policing
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Cultural relations
Customs administration
Democracy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Diplomacy
Director of National Intelligence
Disaster relief
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Electric power transmission
Emergency communication systems
Employee training
Energy
Environmental Protection
Exchange of persons programs
Explosives
Extremist movements in politics
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Human rights
Identification devices
Immigration
Income tax
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
International broadcasting
International cooperation
Islamic fundamentalism
Legislation
Libraries
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Merchant ships
Middle East and North Africa
Minorities
Muslims
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Pakistan
Passports
Police training
Prisoners' rights
Railroad freight operations
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Research and development
Right of privacy
Saudi Arabia
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Standards
Tax rates
Taxation
Terrorism
Transportation research
Transportation safety
Visas
Weapons of mass destruction
Women
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Homeland Security Trust Fund Act of 2006 - Establishes in the Treasury the Homeland Security and Neighborhood Safety Trust Fund. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Senate Finance Committee should report legislation that: (1) increases revenues by $53.3 billion during taxable years 2007-2011 by reducing income tax reductions for taxpayers with taxable incomes exceeding $1 million; and (2) appropriates such revenues to the Fund.
 
Makes amounts in the Fund available for and authorizes appropriations for specified expenditures for: (1) supporting law enforcement, including for hiring additional Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) field agents, customs agents, and rail police; (2) utilizing new technologies, including for consolidating terrorist watch lists and improving passport security, information sharing, and screening of airline passengers and ship and airline cargo; (3) protecting critical infrastructure and eliminating threats, including for hardening soft targets, reducing the risk of attack on dangerous chemicals, and responding to terrorist attacks and natural disasters; and (4) preventing the growth of radical Islamic fundamentalism.
 
Requires specified reports with respect to implementation of recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, including reports on: (1) creation of a national security workforce and a biometric entry-exit screening system; (2) improvements in cargo and passenger screening; (3) critical infrastructure risks and vulnerabilities; (4) efforts to secure weapons of mass destruction; (5) identifying and prioritizing terrorist sanctuaries; (6) progress toward engaging other countries in developing a comprehensive strategy for combating Islamist terrorism; (7) expansion of U.S. scholarship, exchange, and library programs in the Islamic world; (8) establishment of a unified Incident Command System and the National Counterterrorism Center; (9) the Director of National Intelligence; (10) homeland airspace defense; (11) the balance between security and civil liberties; (12) privacy guidelines for government sharing of personal information; (13) development of a common coalition approach toward the detention and humane treatment of captured terrorists; (14) development of economic policies to combat terrorism; (15) international collaboration on borders and document security; (16) standardization of secure identification; and (17) establishment of a national strategy for transportation security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10485-10486)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate