U.S. Congress - H.R.5498 WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2010
H.R.5498 - WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2010
To enhance homeland security by improving efforts to prevent, deter, prepare for, detect, attribute, respond to, and recover from an attack with a weapon of mass destruction, and for other purposes. view all titles (4)
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- Popular: WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2010 as introduced.
- Official: To enhance homeland security by improving efforts to prevent, deter, prepare for, detect, attribute, respond to, and recover from an attack with a weapon of mass destruction, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Short: WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2010 as introduced.
- Short: `WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2010 as reported to house.
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Official Summary
6/10/2010--Introduced.WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2010 - Requires the Director of National Intelligence to develop and implement: (1) a National Intelligence Strategy for Countering the Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); and (2) a National Intelligence Strategy for COfficial Summary
6/10/2010--Introduced.WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2010 - Requires the Director of National Intelligence to develop and implement:(1) a National Intelligence Strategy for Countering the Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); and
(2) a National Intelligence Strategy for Countering Biological Threats. Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a unit for WMD intelligence and information sharing. Directs the DHS Secretary to:
(1) produce biennial Bioterrorism Risk Assessments to identify and assess the evolving terrorist risk of a biological attack or other phenomena that may have serious health consequences for the United States; and
(2) establish enhanced biosecurity measures for persons or laboratories that possess, use, or transfer Tier I Material Threat Agents (agents and toxins that are determined by the Secretary to present a material threat to the population). Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to:
(1) award grants based on risk to academic and nonprofit organizations and to state, local, and tribal governments that possess, use, or transfer Tier I Material Threat Agents to enhance security at laboratories; and
(2) assist such entities in improving and promoting individual and community preparedness and collective response to WMD and terrorist attacks involving biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear weapons against the United States. Directs the Secretary to:
(1) establish procedures, with appropriate controls on access, for the sharing of homeland security information with state, local, and tribal government officials;
(2) periodically review and recommend updates to criminal laws that relate to the evolving risks of misuse of life sciences by terrorists and others and conduct investigations and enforce criminal violations of customs and export laws;
(3) ensure that homeland security information concerning terrorist threats is provided to state, local, and tribal authorities and the public;
(4) examine the state of domestic and global biosurveillance and submit to appropriate congressional committees a national strategy for biosurveillance;
(5) carry out a program in DHS to detect a biological attack or event; and
(6) carry out a program for system assessment and validation of emergency response equipment at DHS (SAVER Program). Establishes in DHS:
(1) a National Export Enforcement Coordination Network;
(2) an Integrated Consortium of Laboratory Networks; and
(3) a National Bioforensics Analysis Center. Requires the Secretary to:
(1) develop voluntary guidance for responding to a release of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear material for police, fire, emergency medical services, emergency management, and public health personnel and make such guidance available to state, local, and tribal governments, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and the public;
(2) acquire, use, and disseminate timely integrated plume models (assessments of the location and prediction of the spread of pathogens resulting from an explosion or release of nuclear, radioactive, chemical, or biological substances) to enable rapid response activities following a chemical, biological, nuclear, or radiological release;
(3) develop and issue guidance for clean-up and restoration of indoor and outdoor areas that have been affected by the release of a biological agent; and
(4) complete within 90 days after the enactment of this Act methods to rapidly screen travelers at ports of entry. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to:
(1) periodically update a National Medical Countermeasure Dispensing Strategy to enhance preparedness and collective response to an attack with any chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear material; and
(2) review the adequacy of domestic vaccination and antimicrobial dispensing policy, guidance, and information provided to the public in light of any known terrorist risk of a biological attack or other phenomena that may have serious health consequences for the United States. Directs the Secretary of State to:
(1) support efforts in other countries to develop mechanisms and capabilities for reporting to United Nations organizations validated data on biological attacks or other phenomena that may have serious health consequences for the United States;
(2) establish and build capacity to effectively implement legislation criminalizing the development or use of biological weapons or acts of bioterrorism;
(3) convene and lead an interagency task force on best practices for global biopreparedness; and
(4) promote implementation of and compliance with the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
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