Homeland Security Technology Advancement Act
Latest action · Jan 31, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.
Progress
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- IntroducedDec 5, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Homeland Security Technology Advancement Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to extend (for five additional years) specified authority of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to carry out certain basic, applied, and advanced research and development projects and prototype projects.
Directs the Under Secretary for Science and Technology to: (1) make available to any person or entity, for an appropriate fee, the services of any DHS owned and operated center or other facility for the testing of materials, equipment, models, computer software, and other items designed to advance the homeland security mission; and (2) ensure that the testing of materiel not owned by the government shall not cause government resources to be diverted from scheduled tests of government materiel or otherwise interfere with government mission requirements. Prohibits: (1) the disclosure outside the federal government of the test results and associated data that are trade secrets or privileged or confidential commercial or financial information without the consent of the person or entity for whom the tests are performed; and (2) fees from exceeding the amount necessary to recoup the costs involved.
Directs the Under Secretary to submit to Congress: (1) a report detailing a plan for operating such program; and (2) an annual report on the facilities that have collected fees, the partnerships formed, and the testing conducted.
Directs the Comptroller General to submit to Congress an assessment of such program.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 31, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.
- Dec 26, 2007Provisions of Measure Incorporated into H.R. 2764.
- Dec 5, 2007Introduced in House
- Dec 5, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
- Commerce
- Computer software
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency Management
- Equipment and supplies
- Laboratories
- Research
- Research and development
- Research and development facilities
- Research centers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Technological innovations
- Technology assessment
- Terrorism
- Trade secrets
- User charges
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 5, 2007Introduced in House
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