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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 4034 (Introduced in House) — To enhance homeland security by improving efforts to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from an attack... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2014 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Title I—A National Biodefense Enterprise Sec. 101. Special Assistant for Biodefense. Sec. 102. National Biodefense Plan. Sec. 103. National Biosurveillance Strategy. Sec. 104. Comprehensive cross-cutting biodefense budget analysis. Title II—Intelligence Matters Sec. 201. National Intelligence Strategy for Countering the Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Sec. 202. National Intelligence Strategy for Countering Biological Threats. Sec. 203. State, local, and tribal defined. Title III—Homeland Security Matters Sec. 301. Weapons of mass destruction prevention and preparedness. Title XXI—WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS Subtitle A—Prevention Sec. 2101. Weapons of mass destruction intelligence and information sharing. Sec. 2102. Risk assessments. Sec. 2103. National Export Enforcement Coordination. Sec. 2104.
Communication of threat information. Sec. 2105. Individual and community preparedness for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear attacks. Subtitle B—Protection Sec. 2121. Detection of biological attacks. Sec. 2122. Rapid biological threat detection and identification at ports of entry. Sec. 2123. Evaluating detection technology. Sec. 2124. Domestic implementation of the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture. Subtitle C—Response Sec. 2131. First responder guidance concerning chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear attacks.
Sec. 2132. Integrated plume modeling for collective response. Sec. 2133. Establishment of the system assessment and validation for emergency responders (SAVER) program. Sec. 2134. Payment for laboratory response services. Sec. 2135. Bioforensics capabilities. Sec. 2136. Metropolitan Medical Response System Program. Subtitle D—Recovery Sec. 2141. Identifying and addressing gaps in recovery capabilities. Sec. 2142. Recovery from a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear attack or incident.
Sec. 2143. Exercises. Sec. 302. Enhancing laboratory biosecurity. Sec. 303. Definitions. Sec. 304. Dual-use terrorist risks from synthetic biology. Sec. 305. Dissemination of information analyzed by the Department to State, local, tribal, and private entities with responsibilities relating to homeland security. Title IV—Public Health Matters Sec. 401. Sense of Congress regarding Federal coordination on medical countermeasures. Sec. 402. National Medical Countermeasure Dispensing Strategy.
Sec. 319F–5. National Medical Countermeasure Dispensing Strategy. Sec. 403. National pre-event vaccination and antimicrobial dispensing policy review. Sec. 404. Management of short shelf life vaccine and antimicrobial stockpiles. Sec. 405. Material threat determinations reviews. Sec. 406. Background checks. Sec. 407. State, local, and tribal defined. Title V—Foreign Relations Matters Sec. 501. International engagement to enhance biodefense and laboratory biosecurity. Sec. 502.
International collaboration and information sharing relating to biosecurity. Sec. 503. Interagency task force on best practices for global biopreparedness. Sec. 504. Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
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