HR 3598 · 114th Congress · Emergency Management

Fusion Center Enhancement Act of 2015

Introduced 2015-09-24· Sponsored by Rep. Barletta, Lou [R-PA-11]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
Committee
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.(2015-11-03)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Fusion Center Enhancement Act of 2015 This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to revise provisions concerning the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative. The bill renames it as the Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center Partnership Initiative and changes references to "participating state, local, or regional fusion centers" to references to the "National Network of Fusion Centers," which is defined as a decentralized arrangement of fusion centers intended to enhance individual state and urban area fusion centers' ability to leverage the capabilities and expertise of all fusion centers for the purpose of enhancing analysis and homeland security information sharing nationally. The duties of the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Initiative are revised to include: supporting the maturation and sustainment of the Network, reducing inefficiencies and maximizing the effectiveness of federal resource support to the Network, ensuring that support for the Network is included as a national priority in applicable homeland security grant guidance, ensuring that each fusion center in the Net…

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H.R. 3598, Fusion Center Enhancement Act of 2015

Oct 20, 2015

As ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on September 30, 2015

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Cosponsors (2)

2 Republicans