Smarter Funding for All of America's Homeland Security Act of 2009
Latest action · Mar 2, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 25, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Smarter Funding for All of America's Homeland Security Act of 2009 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a State and Regional First Responder Grant Program under which the Secretary may make grants to states and eligible regional entities on the basis of the threat to a state or region's population and critical infrastructure, as determined by the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary, to evaluate and prioritize grant applications, considering factors such as threats to the population, specific economic sectors, major communications nodes and transportation systems, specific elements of the food supply, the water and energy supplies, civic infrastructure and emergency response capabilities, and specific structures of symbolic national importance.
Bars the use of grant funds to supplant state or local funds that would otherwise be available for homeland security or first responder projects.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish the Advisory Council on First Responders, which shall report to the Secretary through the head of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination; and (2) revise the Homeland Security Advisory System to require that any designation of a threat level or other warning be accompanied by a designation of the geographic regions and economic sectors to which it applies.
Directs the Under Secretary for Science and Technology to conduct a study of whether there is a need to assign additional bands of frequencies of electromagnetic spectrum to assist first responders.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 2, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
- Feb 26, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
- Feb 26, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 25, 2009Introduced in House
- Feb 25, 2009Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- Feb 25, 2009Referred to House Homeland Security
- Feb 25, 2009Referred to House Judiciary
- Feb 25, 2009Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
- Feb 25, 2009Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 121 | Smarter Funding for All of America's Homeland Security Act of 2007 | Related bill | Feb 9, 2009 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
- Advisory bodies
- Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
- Computers and information technology
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Economic performance and conditions
- Emergency communications systems
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Food supply, safety, and labeling
- Government studies and investigations
- Homeland security
- Intergovernmental relations
- Monuments and memorials
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- Telephone and wireless communication
- Transportation safety and security
- Water use and supply
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 25, 2009Introduced in House
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