Congress 109 - HR 5000 - 9/11 Commission Civil Liberties Board Act

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Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Advice and consent of the Senate Appropriations Armed Forces and National Security Central Intelligence Agency Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Congress Congressional reporting requirements Crime and Law Enforcement Department of Defense Department of Health and Human Services Department of Homeland Security Department of Justice Department of State Department of the Treasury Economics and Public Finance Executive Office of the President Executive reorganization Federal budgets Federal employees Federal officials Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Grievance procedures Health Human experimentation in medicine Inspectors general Intelligence community staff Law Public meetings Right of privacy Subpoena Terrorism Whistle blowing

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9/11 Commission Civil Liberties Board Act - Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to make the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (Board) an independent agency within the Executive branch. (Currently, such Board is established within the Executive Office of the President.) Requires the Board to be composed of a full-time chairman and four additional members, all to be confirmed by the Senate. Prohibits Board members, while so serving, from being an elected official, officer, or employee of the Federal Government. Provides six-year terms. Gives the Board subpoena power.

Requires the Board to: (1) receive and review reports from privacy and civil liberties officers; and (2) report at least semiannually to specified congressional committees on Board activities and other appropriate matters.

Directs the heads of specified Federal agencies to designate at least one senior officer for appropriate assistance with respect to privacy and civil liberties concerns as they relate to terrorism prevention.

Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that the Department of Homeland Security complies with the protections for human research subjects in research conducted or supported by such Department.

Requires within the President's annual budget submission to Congress a separate statement of the amount of appropriations requested for the Board.

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Mar 23, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight.
Mar 16, 2006

Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Intelligence (Permanent 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.
Mar 16, 2006

Introduced in House

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