Safe Communities Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3524
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Auditing
Building laws
Citizen participation
Commerce
Community development
Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal-state relations
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intergovernmental relations
Land use
Law enforcement officers
Local laws
Maps
Paramedical personnel
Planning
Police
Policy sciences
Public utilities
Regional planning
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Sewerage
State laws
State-local relations
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation planning
Urban affairs
Urban planning
Water Resources Development
Water treatment plants
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Safe Communities Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide cost-sharing grants to states and local governments for: (1) development or revision of land use planning statutes, and state or local comprehensive planning documents, in those states or local governments that have not adequately incorporated strategies to mitigate natural and human-caused hazards, including terrorism; (2) creation or revision of state land use statutes and local comprehensive land use plans in those states or local governments that have land use statutes that incorporate risk-reduction and natural and human-caused hazard mitigation; and (3) development or revision of multi-state land use plans.
 
Sets forth eligible grant purposes, including: (1) developing a comprehensive land use plan and integrating natural hazard mitigation and security plan elements into state and local comprehensive plans; (2) assessing, inventorying, or mapping critical public infrastructure; (3) developing geographical information systems; (4) acquiring scenario planning, or risk assessment technology; (5) reviewing building codes, zoning, land use regulations, and related state legislation; (6) implementing crime prevention through environmental design initiatives; (7) assessing land use risk; (8) incorporating mitigation and security elements in transportation plans, facilities, and operations; (9) encouraging interagency cooperation; particularly between first-responders and state and local planning agencies; and (10) identifying natural hazard areas and integrating them into comprehensive plan updates. 
 
Directs the Secretary to analyze comprehensive land use and community planning practices in order to reduce natural hazard and terrorism threats, including: (1) integration of federal facility security with local and regional plans; (2) examination of the impacts of security strategies, facilities, and design on a community's physical and social environment; and (3) integration of mapping and risk-assessment tools and strategies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1679)
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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