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Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act of 2008
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to make full and efficient use of open source information to develop and disseminate open source homeland security information products, and for other purposes.
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- Short: Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act of 2008 as passed house.
- Short: Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act of 2008 as reported to house.
- Official: To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to make full and efficient use of open source information to develop and disseminate open source homeland security information products, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Short: Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act of 2007 as introduced.
10/10/2007--Introduced.
Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components responsible for information sharing and infSee Full Bill Text
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| October 10, 2007 | July 30, 2008 | | | |
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- Added to calendar on Sep 24, 2008: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1051..
- Sep 24, 2008: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Sep 23, 2008: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Sep 23, 2008: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Sep 17, 2008: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Date of scheduled consideration. SD-342. 10:00 a.m.
- Jul 31, 2008: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- Passed by voice vote in the House on Jul 30, 2008. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 7/29/2008 H7189-7190)
- Jul 30, 2008: Considered as unfinished business.
- Passed by voice vote in the House on Jul 30, 2008. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Jul 29, 2008: At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Bilirakis objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.
- Jul 29, 2008: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3815.
- Jul 29, 2008: Considered under suspension of the rules.
- Jul 29, 2008: Ms. Harman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Added to calendar on Jul 21, 2008: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 486..
- Jul 21, 2008: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 110-763.
- Added to calendar on Jun 26, 2008: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote..
- Jun 26, 2008: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jun 11, 2008: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Unanimous Consent .
- Jun 11, 2008: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Oct 12, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.
- Oct 10, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
- Introduced on Oct 10, 2007.
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The final bill ( HR 3815 ), sponsored by Ed Perlmutter , D-Colo., would require DHS to use all available information to analyze national critical ...
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... including the Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act of 2007 (HR 3815), the Reducing Over-Classification Act of 2007 (HR 4806), ...
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HR 3815, Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act: Requires DHS to use publicly available information to analyze US critical infrastructure nodes from the perspective of terrorists and other attackers, and share [...]
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Congress is taking on a number of bills concerning Homeland Security today, one of them is being sponsored by Colorado's Ed Perlmutter. HR 3815 : Homeland Security Open Source...
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