Unifying DHS Intelligence Components Act
Latest action · Nov 9, 2020 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 578.
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 8, 2019
- Passed HouseSep 26, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Unifying DHS Intelligence Components Act
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop and disseminate written DHS-wide intelligence doctrine for the intelligence components of DHS and develop specified DHS-wide policies, standards, and programs.
Specifically, DHS must develop department-wide (1) policies, standards, and programs for training regarding the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence information, intelligence-related information, and terrorism information by personnel within the DHS intelligence components; and (2) policies for gathering and developing lessons learned, disseminating the lessons learned to personnel within the intelligence components, and using the lessons learned to inform the further development of the intelligence doctrine.
The intelligence doctrine, policies, standards, and programs must include, among other things (1) a description of the fundamental principles guiding the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence information by, and oversight of the intelligence activities of, the intelligence components; and (2) a standardized terminology.
The Government Accountability Office must submit a report to the congressional intelligence and homeland security committees that
- assesses the degree to which the DHS intelligence doctrine, policies, standards, and programs are implemented across DHS;
- evaluates the extent to which such intelligence doctrine, policies, standards, and programs are carried out to protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties; and
- incorporates an in-depth analysis, including an assessment of the effectiveness and possible areas for improvement, of specified DHS intelligence-related training programs.
DHS must provide a staff with appropriate expertise and experience to the Office of the Chief Intelligence Officer to assist the office.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred May 8, 2019Markup May 15, 2019Reported May 30, 2019 |
| Senate | Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee | Referred Oct 15, 2019Markup Mar 11, 2020Reported Nov 9, 2020 |
Actions 15
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 9, 2020Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-286.
- Nov 9, 2020Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 578.
- Mar 11, 2020Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Oct 15, 2019Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- Sep 26, 2019Ms. Jackson Lee moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 26, 2019Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8015-8019)
- Sep 26, 2019DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2589.
- Sep 26, 2019Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8015-8016)
- Sep 26, 2019Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- May 30, 2019Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 116-94.
- May 30, 2019Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 69.
- May 15, 2019Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 15, 2019Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- May 8, 2019Introduced in House
- May 8, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H8015–H8019Text printed H8015 | Mark E. Green R-TN, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX | Sep 26, 2019 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee reports
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Oct 27, 2020H.R. 2589, Unifying DHS Intelligence Components ActAs ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 11, 2020
- May 23, 2019H.R. 2589, Unifying DHS Intelligence Enterprise ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on May 15, 2019
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 76, May 8, 2019, page H3502.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 8309 | Keep America Secure Act | Related bill | Sep 18, 2020 |
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a homeland intelligence doctrine for the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Unifying DHS Intelligence Enterprise Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Unifying DHS Intelligence Enterprise Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate
- Unifying DHS Intelligence Components Act
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Unifying DHS Intelligence Enterprise Act
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Unifying DHS Intelligence Enterprise Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
Text 5
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 9, 2020Reported to Senate
- Oct 15, 2019Referred in Senate
- Sep 26, 2019Engrossed in House
- May 30, 2019Reported in House
- May 8, 2019Introduced 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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
