United States-Israel Homeland Security Foundation Act
Latest action · Mar 4, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 2, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
United States-Israel Homeland Security Foundation Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a United States-Israel Homeland Security Foundation for awarding conditional grants to joint business ventures between U.S. and Israeli private corporate entities to develop, manufacture, sell, or otherwise provide products and services with applications related to homeland security. Limits grant amounts to 50 percent of proposed costs. Requires grant recipients to repay the Foundation up to 150 percent of the grant awarded. Directs the Foundation to include an advisory board. Provides Foundation funding through the Acceleration Fund for Research and Development of Homeland Security Technologies.
Directs the Secretary, if not establishing the Foundation, to use a specified amount from such Fund to support the efforts of the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation to make grants to joint U.S.-Israeli business ventures for projects relating to homeland security.
Cosponsors 29
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 2, 2004 to Jul 22, 2004, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-PA | Curt Weldon | Original | Mar 2, 2004 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Dennis A. Cardoza | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-RI | James R. Langevin | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-TN | Jim Cooper | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| R-NJ | Jim Saxton | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-GU | Madeleine Z. Bordallo | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| R-IN | Mark E. Souder | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Martin Frost | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-LA | Rodney Alexander | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-NV | Shelley Berkley | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-NC | Bob Etheridge | Apr 27, 2004 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 4, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development.
- Mar 2, 2004Introduced in House
- Mar 2, 2004Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), 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: Science, Technology, Communications.
- Capital budgets
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- EBB Terrorism
- Economics and Public Finance
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Foundations
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Israel
- Joint ventures
- Middle East and North Africa
- Product development
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Subsidies
- Technological innovations
- Terrorism
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 2, 2004Introduced in House
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