Port Security and Terrorism Prevention Act
Latest action · Mar 18, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Progress
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- IntroducedJan 23, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Secretary to develop standards and procedures for conducting initial security evaluations and port vulnerability assessments.
Requires the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project to assist the Port of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the development of a security assessment methodology (SAM), and a training program to implement it, in order to assess the ability of a port to detect and prevent terrorist or criminal activity.
Requires the establishment of local seaport security committees, among other things, to assist in the review of port vulnerability assessments and maritime security plans for each local port authority, waterfront facility operator, or operator of a public or commercial structure located within or adjacent to a marine environment.
Sets forth requirements calling for: (1) the issuance of regulations establishing requirements for submission of maritime facility security plans that are adequate to safeguard the public and improve the response to threats of crime and terrorism, including designation of controlled access areas in maritime facility plans for waterfront facilities and restrictions limiting access to security-sensitive information; (2) screening of and background checks for persons having access to such areas and information; (3) enhanced maritime domain awareness; (4) an assessment of the effectiveness of security measures maintained at foreign ports that serve U.S. vessels, from which foreign vessels serve the United States, or that pose a high risk of danger to U.S. ports, U.S. citizens, U.S. vessels, or other U.S. interests; (4) dissemination of port security program information to port authorities and marine terminal operators in other countries, including the development of measures to protect the security of U.S. ports from risks related to vessels that arrive from foreign ports that do not maintain an acceptable level of security; (5) the development of maritime security professional training standards (including the establishment of a Maritime Security Institute in Louisiana); (6) the provision of grants to public and private entities for certain construction or acquisition of security infrastructure projects; and (7) other specified maritime safety and security related measures, including penalties for the destruction of or interference with vessels or maritime facilities.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 18, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
- Jan 24, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
- Jan 23, 2002Introduced in House
- Jan 23, 2002Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Armed forces reserves
- Arson
- Assault
- Bombings
- Business records
- Cameras
- Canals
- Capital punishment
- Coast guard
- Commerce
- Common carriers
- Computer matching
- Computers and government
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Conspiracy
- Consumer education
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crime prevention
- Criminal justice information
- Criminal justice information systems
- Customs administration
- Dams
- Data banks
- Deep water ports
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Transportation
- Destruction of property
- Drug abuse
- Drug traffic
- EBB Terrorism
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic government information
- Employee selection
- Employee training
- Energy
- Energy transportation
- Environmental Protection
- Espionage
- Extortion
- Extraterritoriality
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federal employees
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fingerprints
- Flags of convenience
- Fraud
- Freight
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Harbors
- Identification devices
- Identification of criminals
- Infrastructure
- International Affairs
- Internet
- Jurisdiction
- Kidnapping
- Labor and Employment
- Larceny
- Law
- Licenses
- Life imprisonment
- Local employees
- Louisiana
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine safety
- Marine terminals
- Marine transportation
- Merchant seamen
- Merchant ships
- Military readiness
- Murder
- Natural gas
- Naval mines
- Navigational aids
- Obstruction of justice
- Oceanography
- Offshore structures
- Passenger ships
- Police dogs
- Police training
- Port authorities
- Presidential powers
- Private police
- Radioactive wastes
- Rape
- Risk assessment
- Robbery
- Sabotage
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Searches and seizures
- Security measures
- Sedition
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Smuggling
- State employees
- Surveying
- Territorial waters
- Terrorism
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation of hazardous substances
- Transportation workers
- Travel
- Treason
- Violence
- Water Resources Development
- Waterfronts
- Waterways
- Women
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