HR 2390 · 114th Congress · Emergency Management

Homeland Security University-Based Centers Review Act

Introduced 2015-05-18· Sponsored by Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]· House

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Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.(2015-08-18)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Homeland Security University-based Centers Review Act Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to initiate a study to assess the university-based centers for homeland security program authorized by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and provide recommendations to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate for appropriate improvements. Requires the study to: review the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) efforts to identify key areas of study needed to support the homeland security mission and criteria that DHS utilized to determine those key areas for which it should maintain, establish, or eliminate university-based centers; review the method by which university-based centers, federally funded research and development centers, and Department of Energy national laboratories receive tasking from DHS; review and weight selection criteria for designating university-based centers; examine best practices from other agencies' efforts to organize and use university-based research to support their missions; review DHS's criteria and metrics to measure demonstrable progress…

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H.R. 2390, Homeland Security University-based Centers Review Act

May 29, 2015

As ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on May 20, 2015

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Cosponsors (1)

1 Democrat