US Congress House Bill 2390 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Engrossed on June 24 2015 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-08-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Homeland Security University-Based Centers Review Act (Sec. 2) Directs the Government Accountability Office 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 and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 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 achieved by university-based centers in fulfilling DHS taskings and mechanisms for delivering and disseminating the research results of designated university-based centers within DHS and to other agencies; examine means by which academic institutions that are not designated or associated with the designated university-based centers can optimally contribute to the research mission of the Directorate of Science and Technology of DHS; and assess the interrelationship between the different university-based centers and the degree to which outreach and collaboration among a diverse array of academic institutions is encouraged by DHS. Requires the annual report from DHS on such centers to describe: research that has been tasked and completed by each center designated during the preceding year, funding provided by DHS for each such center for that year, and plans for utilization of such centers in the forthcoming year.

Homeland Security University-Based Centers Review Act

Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]

Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-08-18	Senate	Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
2015-06-24	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
2015-06-23	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2015-06-23	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4574)
2015-06-23	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2390.
2015-06-23	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4574-4576)
2015-06-23	House	Mr. Ratcliffe moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2015-06-18	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 123.
2015-06-18	House	Committee on Science, Space, and Technology discharged.
2015-06-18	House	Reported by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 114-168, Part I.
2015-05-20	House	Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
2015-05-20	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2015-05-20	House	Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies Discharged.
2015-05-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
2015-05-18	House	Referred to House Science, Space, and Technology
2015-05-18	House	Referred to House Homeland Security
2015-05-18	House	Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-05-18	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2390/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr2390/BILLS-114hr2390ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr2390/BILLS-114hr2390rh.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr2390/BILLS-114hr2390eh.pdf