A bill to amend title 46 and 49, United States Code, to provide improved maritime, rail, and public transportation security, and for other purposes.
Latest action · May 12, 2006 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 430.
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.
- IntroducedMay 11, 2006
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Public Transportation Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006 - Requires the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration to submit all public transportation security assessments to the Secretary of Homeland Security to review and augment such assessments.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish and update annually security improvement priorities; (2) conduct security assessments of all public transportation agencies considered to be at greatest risk of a terrorist attack; (3) conduct security assessments to determine the specific needs of local bus-only public transportation systems and of selected rural transportation systems; and (4) use information collected to establish the process for developing security guidelines.
Directs the Secretary to award grants: (1) directly to public transportation agencies for allowable capital security improvements; and (2) to public or private entities to conduct research into, and demonstrate, methods to reduce and deter terrorist threats or mitigate damages resulting from terrorist attacks against public transportation systems.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) ensure that DOT receives timely notification of all credible terrorist threats against U.S. public transportation assets; and (2) award grants for research, development, and demonstration of technologies and methods to reduce and deter terrorist threats or mitigate damages resulting from such attacks.
Rail Security Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary to establish a task force to complete, and make prioritized recommendations regarding, a vulnerability and risk assessment of freight and passenger rail transportation for identification of: (1) critical assets and infrastructures, and vulnerabilities and risks, to such assets and infrastructures; (2) vulnerabilities and risks specific to the transportation of hazardous materials via railroad; and (3) security weaknesses in passenger and cargo security, transportation infrastructure, protection systems, procedural policies, communications systems, employee training, emergency response planning, and any other area.
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for certain system-wide Amtrak security upgrades.
Directs the Secretary to require rail carriers transporting high hazardous materials to develop high hazard material security threat mitigation plans containing appropriate measures (including alternative routing and temporary shipment suspension options) to address assessed risks to high consequence targets.
Maritime Security Improvement Act of 2006 - Establishes interagency operational centers to provide greater protection against terrorism at high priority ports.
Directs the Secretary to identify foreign assistance programs that could facilitate implementation of port security antiterrorism measures in foreign countries.
Cosponsors 42
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 11, 2006 to Jul 27, 2006, with 41 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-ND | Byron L. Dorgan | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| R-MT | Conrad R. Burns | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Inouye | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| R-LA | David Vitter | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| R-NC | Elizabeth Dole | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| R-VA | George Allen | Original | May 11, 2006 |
| R-OR | Gordon H. Smith | Original | May 11, 2006 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 12, 2006Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 430.
- May 11, 2006Introduced in Senate
- May 11, 2006Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
- May 11, 2006Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4473-4474)
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1052 | Transportation Security Improvement Act of 2005 | Related bill | Feb 27, 2006 |
| S 2032 | Public Transportation Terrorism Prevention Act of 2005 | Related bill | Nov 17, 2005 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Ammonia
- Animals
- Appropriations
- Authorization
- Automobile drivers
- Automobiles
- Biological warfare
- Boundaries
- Canada
- Caribbean area
- Chemical warfare
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Containerization
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Damages
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Transportation
- District of Columbia
- Dogs
- Drainage
- Economic assistance
- Emergency communication systems
- Emergency Management
- Employee training
- Environmental Protection
- Evacuation of civilians
- Explosives
- Families
- Family services
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to transportation
- Fire prevention
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Freight
- Government corporations
- Government liability
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Identification of criminals
- Imports
- Intermodal transportation
- International Affairs
- Labor and Employment
- Labor disputes
- Latin America
- Law
- Law enforcement officers
- Lighting
- Marine safety
- Marine terminals
- Maryland
- Mass rapid transit
- Merchant seamen
- Merchant ships
- Mexico
- Motor buses
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
- New York City
- Nuclear terrorism
- Passenger ships
- Performance measurement
- Poisons
- Police
- Railroad commuting traffic
- Railroad employees
- Railroad engineering
- Railroad equipment
- Railroad finance
- Railroad freight operations
- Railroad passenger traffic
- Railroad safety
- Railroad terminals
- Research and development
- Research grants
- Risk
- Sabotage
- Salvage
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Searches and seizures
- Security measures
- Standards
- Tariff
- Technological innovations
- Technology assessment
- Terrorism
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation of hazardous substances
- Transportation planning
- Transportation research
- Transportation safety
- Transportation workers
- Tunnels
- User charges
- Whistle blowing
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