SWIC Enhancement Act
Latest action · Dec 1, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.
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.
- IntroducedNov 19, 2014
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
State Wide Interoperable Communications Enhancement Act or the SWIC Enhancement Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require a state to include in its application for State Homeland Security Grant Program funding a certification: (1) that the governor of the state has designated a Statewide Interoperability Coordinator, or (2) indicating that the state is performing the functions of such a Coordinator in another manner and identifying the primary point of contact for performance of such functions.
Sets forth as such Coordinator's functions:
- overseeing the daily operations of the state's interoperability efforts;
- coordinating state interoperability and communications projects and grant applications for such projects;
- establishing and maintaining working groups to develop and implement key interoperability initiatives; and
- implementing and updating a Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan that specifies the current status of state efforts to enhance communications interoperability within the state, including future goals for communications interoperability among emergency response agencies in the state.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 19, 2014.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Original | Nov 19, 2014 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 1, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.
- Nov 19, 2014Introduced in House
- Nov 19, 2014Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 19, 2014Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.