Homeland Security Grant Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2041
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-05-02 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Advice and consent of the Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Biological warfare
Boundaries
Canada
Chemical warfare
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Evacuation of civilians
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publications
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health planning
Higher education
Hours of labor
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Medical education
Metropolitan areas
Mexico
Minorities
Municipal solid waste
Native Americans
Nuclear terrorism
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Planning
Planning-programming-budgeting
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Population
Presidential appointments
Public health
Regional planning
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Standards
State government-Indian relations
State-local relations
Telephone
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Trucking
Trucks
Urban affairs
Waste in government spending
Weapons of mass destruction
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-02
text: 
Homeland Security Grant Enhancement Act of 2005 - Establishes the Interagency Committee to Coordinate and Streamline Homeland Security Grant Programs.
 
Creates the position of Executive Director to head the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) Office for State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness (OSLGCP).
 
Reconstitutes the DHS Office for Domestic Preparedness as a component of the OSLGCP (currently, within the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security) and gives it responsibility for managing the Homeland Security Information Clearinghouse.
 
Establishes the Homeland Security Information Clearinghouse within the OSLGCP.
 
Preserves specified Federal grant programs for traditional first responder missions that existed prior to September 11, 2001.
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish: (1) clearly defined essential capabilities for State and local governments; and (2) a Task Force on Essential Capabilities for First Responders.
 
Establishes a Threat-Based Homeland Security Grant Program for States and local governments. Requires a State applying for a grant to have an approved three-year homeland security plan. 
 
Provides for the reallocation of funds received under the State Homeland Security Grant Program.
 
Directs the Secretary to promulgate national voluntary consensus standards for first responder equipment and training.
 
Requires the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to report to Congress: (1) on whether the methodologies and technologies used to screen municipal solid waste entering the United States for chemical, nuclear, biological, and radiological weapons are as effective as screening methods for other items of commerce; and (2) if not, on actions the Bureau will take to ensure comparable levels of screening. Requires the Secretary, if such actions are not taken within a specified period, to deny entry to commercial motor vehicles carrying municipal solid waste until the Secretary certifies to Congress that comparable screening levels have been achieved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-05-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Judiciary, 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: 2005-05-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Judiciary, 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: 2005-05-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Judiciary, 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: 2005-05-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Judiciary, 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: 2005-05-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Judiciary, 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: 2005-05-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-02
text: Introduced in House