Tsunami Forecasting and Warning Improvement Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1110
Sponsor: full_name: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-03-13
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Caribbean area

Emergency communications systems

Emergency planning and evacuation

Natural disasters

Puerto Rico

U.S. territories and protectorates
Latest action: action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-03-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Tsunami Forecasting and Warning Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Tsunami Warning and Education Act to direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), through the National Weather Service, to establish or maintain a Caribbean Tsunami Warning Center in Puerto Rico. (The responsibilities of tsunami warning centers include monitoring and evaluating earthquakes, disseminating forecasts and tsunami warning bulletins to federal, state, and local governments as well as the public, and ensuring information sharing between forecasters and emergency management officials.)</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1110 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 13, 2013 Mr. Pierluisi (for himself, Mrs. Christensen , Mr. Serrano , Mr. Faleomavaega , and Ms. Bordallo ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology A BILL To amend the Tsunami Warning and Education Act to direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, through the National Weather Service, to establish, maintain, and operate an additional tsunami forecast and warning center for the improvement of the evaluation of tsunami risk to, and the dissemination of forecasts and tsunami warning bulletins for, the public in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Tsunami Forecasting and Warning Improvement Act of 2013 . 2. Improvement of Tsunami Forecasting and Warning Program (a) In general Section 4(d)(1) of the Tsunami Warning and Education Act ( 33 U.S.C. 3203(d)(1) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (B) by striking and after the semicolon; (2) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D); and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following: (C) a Caribbean Tsunami Warning Center in Puerto Rico; and . (b) Effective date The amendments in subsection (a) shall apply 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.