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United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Amends the Federal criminal code with respect to trafficking in counterfeit goods or services to make a technical correction in the codification of title 36 (Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations) regarding the definition of a counterfeit mark.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Pipeline Infrastructure Protection to Enhance Security and Safety Act - Amends Federal transportation law "one-call notification system" provisions concerning notification to underground facility operators of excavations to: (1) require participation by government operators; and (2) encourage the adoption of the "Common Ground" report. Revises pipeline safety provisions to require the Secretary of Transportation: (1) when assessing the security and safety of pipeline facilities, to assess the vulnerabilities of such facilities to terrorist attacks; (2) when prescribing minimum safety standards for pipeline transportation and for pipeline facilities, to include in such standards a requirement that pipeline facility operators participate in a public safety program; and (3) to establish pipeline public education and safety standards. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy, to develop and implement a cooperative program of research, development, and demonstration to ensure the integrity of pipeline facilities. Requires the establishment of a Pipeline Integrity Technical Advisory Committee to develop a cooperative pipeline facility integrity program. Establishes a pipeline controller certification qualification program. Requires a pipeline facility operator to provide: (1) geospatial data appropriate for use in the National Pipeline Mapping System; (2) identification of the person with primary operational control; (3) develop and implement terrorism security programs; and (4) with a condition deemed potentially unsafe condition to take necessary corrective actions. Authorizes to pipelines: (1) technical assistance; and (2) security recommendations. Requires a coordinated environmental review process for pipeline repair and rehabilitation projects. Permits withholding from the public certain pipeline information that could reveal the systemic vulnerability of a pipeline to attack.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Provides for convening the second session of the 107th Congress at noon on January 23, 2002.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2025
Provides that, during FY 2002, the statute of limitations shall be deemed not to have run for any claim concerning losses to or mismanagement of tribal trust funds, solely for purposes of providing an opportunity to explore the settlement of tribal claims.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2001 - Directs the Attorney General, during each of FY 2002 through 2006, to increase the number of Immigration and Naturalization (INS) investigators and inspectors. Waives INS personnel limits. Authorizes appropriations for INS, Border Patrol, and consular personnel, training, facilities, and security-related technology. Provides for machine-readable visa fees. Directs U.S. law enforcement and intelligence entities to share alien admissibility- and deportation-related information with INS and the Department of State. Directs the President to develop a law enforcement and intelligence sharing plan for INS and the Department of State. Provides: (1) source and privacy protections; and (2) criminal penalties for information misuse. Directs: (1) INS to fully integrate its databases and data systems; and (2) the President to develop and implement an interoperable law enforcement and intelligence data system (with name-matching and linguistic capacity) for visa, admissibility, or deportation determination purposes. Directs the President to establish the Commission on Interoperable Data Sharing, which shall: (1) monitor information misuse protections under the alien screening plan; and (2) provide oversight of the interoperable data sharing system. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) to direct the Secretary of State (Secretary), upon issuance of an alien visa, to provide INS with an electronic version of the alien's visa file prior to the alien's U.S. entry. Sets forth technology standard and interoperability requirements respecting development and implementation of the integrated entry and exit data system and related tamper-resistant, machine-readable documents containing biometric identifiers. Requires visa waiver country certification that it has a program to issue to its nationals qualifying machine-readable passports that are tamper-proof and contain biometric identifiers. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a Terrorist Lookout Committee at each U.S. mission; and (2) provide consular staff with visa screening training. Prohibits the admission of an alien from a country designated to be a state sponsor of international terrorism unless the Secretary has determined that such individual does not pose a U.S. risk or security threat. Conditions participation in the visa waiver program upon a country's timely reporting to the United States of its stolen blank passports. Provides for data system entry of lost or stolen U.S. or foreign passport identification numbers. Directs the President to study the feasibility of establishing a North American National Security Program (United States, Canada, Mexico), including consideration of alien preclearance and preinspection. Amends the Act to: (1) require commercial aircraft or vessels arriving at, or departing from, the United States to provide immigration officers with specified passenger, other occupant, and crew manifest information; and (2) direct the President to conduct a feasibility study regarding such provisions' extension to commercial land carriers. Amends the Ports and Waterways Safety Act to revise and specify vessel prearrival message requirements. Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to direct the Attorney General to develop an electronic means of verifying and monitoring the foreign student and exchange visitor information program, including aspects of: (1) documentation and visa issuance; (2) U.S. admission; (3) institution notification; (4) documentation transmittal; and (5) registration and enrollment. Requires an institution to notify INS respecting student failure to enroll. Increases student data collection requirements. Specifies information required for foreign student visa applications. Provides for INS and Department of State review of institutions authorized to enroll or sponsor foreign students and exchange visitors. Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to extend the deadline for presentation of biometric border crossing identification cards. Directs the Secretary and INS to study alternative approaches to for encouraging or requiring Mexico, Canada, and visa waiver countries to develop an intergovernmental network of interoperable international electronic data systems. Directs the Department of State to retain every nonimmigrant visa application in judicially and administratively admissible form for a period of seven years from the date of application.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Extends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2002 through January 10, 2002. Provides that funds shall be available and obligations for mandatory payments due on or about January 1, 2002, may continue to be made.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified amount to satisfy the claims for compensation and damages of James D. Benoit and Wan Sook Benoit for the wrongful death of David Benoit in military family housing supplied by the Army in Seoul, Korea, in 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Nurse Reinvestment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop national public service announcements and make grants to support State and local broadcasts promoting the nursing profession. Expands eligibility for the nursing loan repayment program to include service in private hospitals, State or local departments of public health, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospice programs, and ambulatory surgical centers, subject to certain restrictions. Authorizes the Secretary to provide nursing scholarships in exchange for nursing services in designated health facilities. Treats such scholarships as equivalent to those made under the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program for repayment purposes, except as specified. Grants preference to applicants with the greatest financial need and/or a willingness to serve in geographic areas with nursing shortages and need. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on: (1) any differences in nurse hiring practices between profit and nonprofit private entities because of the inclusion of for-profit privates in the loan repayment program; and (2) whether a nursing school faculty shortage exists.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Extends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2002 through December 21, 2001.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Revises the boundaries of the George Washington Birthplace National Monument to include additional lands. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands within such boundaries from willing owners.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Response Act of 2001 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add provisions directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, building upon core public health capabilities, to carry out health-related activities to prepare for and respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies. Requires collaboration with States and local governments to ensure a national bioterrorism and public health emergency preparedness plan. Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services the position of Assistant Secretary for Emergency Preparedness. Expands the role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Directs the Secretary to provide for the establishment of a coordinated network of public health laboratories. Provides for: (1) the education of health care personnel regarding recognition and identification of bioweapons; and (2) grants to train health professionals and register volunteers. Requires the maintenance of a national stockpile or stockpiles of drugs, vaccines and other biological products, medical devices, and other supplies adequate to meet the health security needs of the United States in the event of a bioterrorist attack or other public health emergency. Provides for countermeasure research, development, and evaluation. Provides for the waiver of certain Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP requirements during national emergencies. Provides for enhanced regulatory control of dangerous biological agents and toxins. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the protection of the food and drug supply against intentional adulteration. Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect the water supply against terrorist and other intentional acts.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 - Revises various requirements relating to the Department of Veterans Affairs employee incentive scholarship program, including by reducing the period of employment required for eligibility and by increasing the years for which a scholarship may be paid. Makes permanent the education debt reduction program. Authorizes: (1) additional pay for Saturday duty for health care professionals in the Department's Veterans Health Administration (VHA); and (2) unused sick leave to be included in the annuity computation for VHA nurses. Establishes the National Commission on VA Nursing. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide service dogs to veterans enrolled in the veterans' patient enrollment system. Provides the basis for maintenance of the Department's capacity to provide for the specialized treatment and rehabilitative needs of disabled veterans who: (1) are seriously mentally ill; or (2) have spinal cord dysfunction, traumatic brain injury, blindness, or prosthetics and sensory aids. Directs the Secretary to provide chiropractic care and services to veterans enrolled in the veterans' patient enrollment system. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a major medical facility project at the Department's Medical Center in Miami, Florida. Urges the Secretary to assess the Department's provision of special telephone services for veterans. Directs the Secretary to provide consultation, counseling, training and mental health services to family members of a veteran receiving treatment for a service-connected disability and authorizes the Secretary to provide such services in connection with a veteran receiving treatment for a non-service-connected disability. Authorizes: (1) bereavement counseling to family members of veterans who die in the line of duty or were participating in a hospice program; and (2) humanitarian hospital or medical care in emergency cases.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
National Museum of African American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission Act of 2001 - Establishes the National Museum of African American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission to develop a plan of action for the establishment and maintenance of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 2025
Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2001 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to waive or modify certain requirements of student financial aid programs under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 as necessary in connection with the national emergency declared by the President with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, or any subsequent national emergency declared by reason of terrorist attacks (the emergency). Authorizes such waiver or modification of requirements in order to provide relief from certain financial and administrative burdens to affected individuals who: (1) are serving on active duty during the emergency; (2) are serving on National Guard duty during the emergency; (3) reside or are employed in a disaster area declared by any Federal, State, or local official in connection with the emergency; or (4) suffered direct economic hardship as a direct result of the emergency, as determined under a waiver or modification issued under this Act. Authorizes waiver or modification of certain reporting requirements for institutions of higher education, lenders, guarantee agencies, and other entities participating in such programs, if such entities are located in declared disaster areas connected to the emergency. Expresses the sense of Congress that institutions offering postsecondary education should provide refunds and waivers of certain requirements to students who are members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty during the national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the National Institutes of Health, to develop an annual list of approved drugs for which: (1) there is an approved or pending new drug application or no patent or market exclusivity protection; and (2) additional pediatric safety and effectiveness studies are needed. Directs the Secretary to award contracts to entities with appropriate experience for pediatric clinical trials of such drugs. Establishes a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contract process for related labeling changes. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to: (1) eliminate the user fee waiver for pediatric supplements to a human drug application; (2) provide priority status for pediatric supplements; (3) include neonates within the definition of pediatric studies; (4) provide for dissemination of pediatric supplement information; and (5) set forth requirements for the additional six-month exclusivity period for new or already-marketed pediatric drugs. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Pediatric Therapeutics within the Office of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, which shall coordinate all FDA pediatric activities. Includes within the purposes and activities of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health the collection of funds for pediatric pharmacological research. Directs the Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine to review Federal regulations, reports, and support for research involving children, with particular attention to issues of compensation, informed consent, and risk/ benefits assessments in terms of research versus therapeutic treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Extends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2002 through December 15, 2001.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 2025
Amends of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to set fixed interest rates for new loans to students or parents on or after July 1, 2006. Extends current interest rate provisions for loans with a first disbursement (or a consolidation loan application received) before such date. Extends provisions for special allowances for lenders, but limits payment of special allowances for PLUS loans on or after such date.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
California Five Mile Regional Learning Center Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) convey to the Clovis Unified School District of California a specified parcel of National Forest System (NFS) land which has been utilized as the Five Mile Regional Learning Center by such school district since 1989 pursuant to a special use permit to provide natural resource conservation education to California youth; and (2) negotiate with the school district to enter into a new permit for the approximately 100 acres of NFS land that the school district is using pursuant to the present permit but that is not included in such conveyance.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Cyber Security Research and Development Act - Authorizes appropriations, to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and to the Secretary of Commerce for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to establish new programs and to increase funding for certain current programs for computer and network security research and development and research fellowships. Requires the NSF Director to award grants for computer and network security through the following: (1) basic research in innovative approaches to the structure of their hardware and software; (2) multidisciplinary research centers, through institutions of higher education (IHEs) or their consortia which may partner with government laboratories or for-profit institutions; (3) undergraduate and master's degree programs, as well as education-related grants under the Scientific and Advanced Technology Act of 1992; (4) graduate traineeships; and (5) graduate research fellowships. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to include among NSF functions leading in supporting research and education activities to improve networked information systems' security. Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to require the NIST Director to establish a program of assistance to IHEs that enter into partnerships (which may include government laboratories) with for-profit entities to support research to improve the security of computer systems. Requires such program to include: (1) multidisciplinary, long-term, high-risk research; (2) research directed toward addressing needs identified through computer security review, public meeting, and information activities of the Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board (with special funds authorized by this Act); and (3) support for graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and senior researchers. Requires NIST to carry out specified types of intramural computer security research. Requires the NIST Director to arrange with the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to Congress on critical infrastructure weaknesses.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Designates the national cemetery in Saratoga, New York, as the Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide for the placement therein of a suitable memorial to honor Solomon's service to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
National Sea Grant College Program Act Amendments of 2001 - Amends the National Sea Grant College Act to include an emphasis on ocean and coastal resources conservation and management and collaboration between academia and the scientists and programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Excludes grants to assist coastal and ocean research from the two-thirds limitation otherwise applicable. Revises and expands the terms of membership for the sea grant review panel. Authorizes appropriations for zebra mussel, oyster, harmful algal bloom, and coastal ocean research.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines within the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that: (1) exist as of September 1, 2001; or (2) are proposed to be constructed across the Foothills Parkway, the Foothills Parkway Spur between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg (Tennessee), and the Gatlinburg Bypass.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Designates the United States Postal Service facility located at 375 Carlls Path in Deer Park, New York, as the Raymond M. Downey Post Office Building.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Native American Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Technical Amendment Act of 2001 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000, to include in the optional Medicaid eligibility category for such illnesses Indian women with breast or cervical cancer who are eligible for health services under a medical care program of the Indian Health Service or of a tribal organization.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to designate the National Foreign Affairs Training Center as the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require any person which is an eligible educational institution (current law requires any person which is an eligible educational institution which receives payments for qualified tuition and related expenses with respect to any individual for any calendar year or which makes reimbursements or refunds to any individual of qualified tuition and related expenses) which enrolls any individual for any academic period to meet specified return requirements. Revises requirements concerning the form and manner of such returns.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Allows certain eligible participants to make such additional contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan as are permitted by: (1) provisions of the Internal Revenue Code pertaining to catch-up contributions to pension, profit-sharing, and/or stock bonus plans for individuals age 50 and over; and (2) consistent with regulations of the Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to increase: (1) reimbursement payments made to active thorium site licensees for off-site disposal under the remedial action program; (2) authorization of appropriations for the remedial action program; and (3) the statutorily mandated amount in the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 2026
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2002 - Appropriates funds for FY 2002 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance (including for the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and environmental restoration); (3) procurement(including for shipbuilding and conversion); (4) research, development, test, and evaluation; (5) revolving and management funds; (6) the Defense Health Program; (7) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (8) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (9) the Office of the Inspector General; (10) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (11) the Intelligence Community Management Account; (12) payment to the Kaho'olawe Island Conveyance, Remediation, and Environmental Restoration Fund; (13) the National Security Education Trust Fund; (14) the Counter-Terrorism and Operational Response Transfer Fund to prosecute Operation Enduring Freedom; (15) former Soviet Union threat reduction; (16) the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization;(17) DOD chemical and biological weapon defense programs; and (18) the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Emergency Supplemental Act, 2002 - Appropriates funds for FY 2002 for emergency expenses to respond to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States for: (1) the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Justice, Commerce, State and related agencies, Defense, the Interior, Energy, Labor, Education and related agencies, Transportation and related agencies, the Treasury, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development; (2) the Judiciary; (3) the District of Columbia; (4) the Smithsonian Institution; (5) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (6) the National Capital Planning Commission; (7) the Legislative Branch; (8) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; (9) the General Services Administration; (10) the Environmental Protection Agency: (11) the Federal Emergency Management Agency; (12) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and (13) the National Science Foundation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Designates the headquarters and visitors center at Humboldt Bay National Wild Life Refuge located at 1020 Ranch Road in Loleta, California, as the Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitors Center.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Extends by one year the deadlines for compliance by health care providers, health plans other than small health plans, and health care clearinghouses with the standards for electronic health care transactions and code sets adopted under part C (Administrative Simplification) of title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) by the Secretary of Health and Human Services only if, before the current deadline, such entity submits to the Secretary a plan for compliance with such standards. Amends part C of SSA title XI to include the Medicare+Choice program as a health plan (thus applying administrative simplification requirements to Medicare+Choice organizations). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a specified administrative fee for the submission of a claim in a paper or non-electronic form for items or services for which payment is sought under Medicare.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Directs the United States Postmaster General to install a plaque to honor Dr. James Harvey Early in the Williamsburg, Kentucky, Post Office Building located at 1000 North Highway 23 West, Williamsburg, Kentucky.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Extends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2002 through December 7, 2001. Provides that funds shall be available and obligations for mandatory payments due on or about December 1, 2001, may continue to be made.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 2025
Help America Vote Act of 2001 - Directs the Administrator of General Services to establish programs under which the Administrator makes payments to each eligible State or local government to: (1) replace a punch card voting system with a voting system which does not use punch cards; or (2) make technical enhancements to the performance of its punch card voting system. Establishes: (1) an independent Election Assistance Commission to serve as a national clearinghouse and resource for the compilation of information and review of procedures with respect to the administration of Federal elections; and (2) the Election Assistance Commission Standards Board and the Election Assistance Commission Board of Advisors to review any of the voluntary standards for engineering and procedural performance, for maintenance and enhancement of the accessibility and privacy of registration facilities, polling places, and voting methods, and for election management practices recommended by the Commission. Establishes the Technical Standards Development Committee to assist the Executive Director of the Commission by recommending standards to ensure the usability, accuracy, security, accessibility, and integrity of voting systems and voting equipment. Directs the Commission to: (1) provide for the testing, certification, decertification, and recertification of voting system hardware and software by accredited laboratories; (2) make payments to States for voting system improvements, grants to entities for voting equipment and technology research and development, and grants for pilot programs to try out new voting systems and equipment technologies; and (3) develop the Help America Vote College Program to encourage college students to assist State and local governments in election administration. Amends Federal law to create the Help America Vote Foundation as a nonprofit charitable corporation to mobilize secondary school students to participate in the election process in a nonpartisan manner as poll workers or assistants. Outlines minimum standards for State election systems. Sets forth provisions regarding voting rights of military members and overseas citizens. Amends Federal postal service law to replace reduced rates for voter registration purposes with reduced rates for official election mail.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility (Brentwood Processing and Distribution Center) located at 900 Brentwood Road, N.E., in Washington, D.C., as the Joseph Curseen, Jr., and Thomas Morris, Jr. Processing and Distribution Center.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Designates the Federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 400 North Main Street in Butte, Montana, as the Mike Mansfield Federal Building and United States Courthouse.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Terrorist Bombings Convention Implementation Act of 2001 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit unlawfully detonating an explosive in or against a place of public use, a State or Government facility, a public transportation system, or an infrastructure facility with intent to cause: (1) death or serious bodily injury; or (2) extensive destruction likely to result in major economic loss. Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Convention Implementation Act of 2001 - Prohibits unlawfully and willfully providing or collecting funds with the intention or knowledge that such funds are to be used to carry out: (1) an act which constitutes an offense within the scope of specified treaties, including conventions against terrorist bombings and crimes against aviation, internationally protected persons, or nuclear material; or (2) any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to intimidate a population or to compel a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act. Prohibits knowingly concealing or disguising the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of material support or resources to terrorists, of any funds provided or collected, or of any proceeds of such funds. Sets forth ancillary measures, including making "bombing of public places and facilities" a predicate offense to violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
National Medical Emergency Preparedness Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a least four medical emergency preparedness centers within Department medical centers to research diagnosis and treatment for, respond to, and train and advise health-care professionals about chemical, biological, and radiological threats to public health and safety. Sets forth criteria for selecting center sites. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance requested by Federal, State, and local civil and criminal authorities in investigations and data analyses as necessary to protect the public safety and prevent or obviate such threats.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify specified routes in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico as part of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor of the National Highway System.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 65 North Main Street in Cranbury, New Jersey, as the Todd Beamer Post Office Building.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Amends the Federal charter for the AMVETS organization to: (1) change the meaning of AMVETS to American Veterans (currently, American Veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam); (2) revise the composition of its governing body; and (3) provide for its headquarters and principal place of business to be in Maryland (currently, the District of Columbia).
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Terrorism Risk Protection Act - Sets a deadline for the President to designate an Administrator (or Administrators) to implement this Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that, in determining the Administrator responsible for making determinations as to whether a loss was caused by an act of terrorism, the President should consider the appropriate role of the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. Prescribes procedural guidelines under which such Administrator shall provide financial assistance (up to $100 billion) to commercial insurers to cover insured losses resulting from an act of terrorism. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a terrorism reserve for commercial lines of insurance business. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) should develop appropriate definitions for acts of terrorism and appropriate standards for making determinations regarding such acts; (2) each State should adopt those definitions and standards for purposes of regulating insurance coverage in that State; (3) the appropriate Administrator should advocate and promote the development of definitions and standards appropriate for purposes of this Act; and (4) after such consultation, the appropriate Administrator should adopt definitions for acts of terrorism and standards for determinations appropriate for this Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the NAIC should develop appropriate guidelines for commercial insurers and pools regarding maintenance of reserves against the risks of acts of terrorism; and (2) each State should adopt such guidelines for commercial insurers doing business in that State. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States should require that the price of terrorism insurance coverage, including the costs of any terrorism related assessments or surcharges, be separately disclosed. Instructs the President to establish a commission to study and report to Congress on the potential effects of an act of terrorism on the life insurance industry in the United States and the markets served by such industry.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Gives the consent of Congress to certain amendments to the New Hampshire-Vermont Interstate School Compact.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Afghan Women and Children Relief Act of 2001 - Authorizes the President, subject to specified conditions, to provide educational and health care assistance for the women and children living in Afghanistan and as refugees in neighboring countries. Directs the President to report biennially to specified congressional committees on the condition and status of women and children in Afghanistan and the persons in refugee camps while U.S. aid is given to displaced Afghans.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Designates September 11 as Patriot Day. Requests the President to issue a proclamation each year regarding the observation of Patriot Day and the display of the U.S. flag at half staff in honor of individuals who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001..
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Freedom Consolidation Act of 2001 - Reaffirms support for continued enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Alliance. Designates Slovakia for participation in the Partnership for Peace and eligible to receive certain security assistance under the NATO Participation Act of 1994. Authorizes specified amounts of security assistance for FY 2002 for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Romania.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Extends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2002 through November 16, 2001.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 - Establishes a counterterrorism fund. Condemns discrimination against Arab and Muslim Americans. Increases funding for the technical support center at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Authorizes the Attorney General to request military assistance to enforce laws related to any weapon of mass destruction. Requires the Director of the U.S. Secret Service to develop a national electronic crime task force. Grants the President authority to confiscate any property of any foreign person, country, or organization involved with an attack on or armed hostilities with the United States. Amends Federal criminal law to provide for authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses. Permits disclosure to specified Federal personnel of Federal grand jury matters pertaining to intelligence or counterintelligence. Allows sharing of electronic, wire, and oral interception information by Federal law enforcement and other specified Federal officials. Permits the similar sharing of foreign intelligence information. Requires the FBI Director to expedite the hiring of translators to support counterterrorism investigations and operations. Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 with respect to roving surveillance authority and duration of surveillance of non-U.S. persons who are agents of a foreign power. Permits the seizure of voice mail messages pursuant to search warrants. Allows subpoenas for records of electronic communications to include temporarily assigned network addresses. Permits electronic communication and remote computing service providers to make emergency disclosures to a governmental entity of customer electronic communications to protect life and limb. Authorizes Federal district courts to allow a delay of required notices of the execution of a warrant if immediate notice may have an adverse result. Prohibits use of a pen register or trap and trace devices in any investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities that is conducted solely on the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (or designee) to apply for an court order requiring production of certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations. Amends Federal criminal law to: (1) require a trap and trace device to restrict recording or decoding so as not to include the contents of a wire or electronic communication; (2) apply a court order for a pen register or trap and trace devices to any person or entity providing wire or electronic communication service in the United States whose assistance may facilitate execution of the order; (3) allow a trap and trace device to identify the source (but not the contents) of a wire or electronic communication; and (4) provide for nationwide service of search warrants for electronic evidence. Amends the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 to extend trade sanctions to the territory of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban. Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for administrative discipline of Federal officers or employees who violate prohibitions against unauthorized disclosures of information gathered under this Act. Provides for civil actions against the United States for damages by any person aggrieved by such violations. Terminates specified provisions of this Act on December 31, 2005. International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 - Sunsets this Act after the first day of FY2005 if Congress enacts specified legislation to that effect. Prescribes special measures for jurisdictions, financial institutions, or international transactions of primary money laundering concern, including a proscription against United States correspondent accounts with foreign shell banks. Establishes Federal jurisdiction over foreign money launderers, money that is laundered through a foreign bank, and foreign and domestic bank records related to anti-money laundering programs. Provides for forfeiture of money laundering funds in U.S. interbank accounts. Authorizes Federal application for restraining orders to preserve the availability of property subject to a foreign forfeiture or confiscation judgment. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations to ensure that concentration accounts of financial institutions are not used to prevent association of the identity of an individual customer with the movement of funds of which the customer is the direct or beneficial owner. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations prescribing minimum standards for financial institutions regarding customer identity in connection with the opening of accounts. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require consideration of the effectiveness of a company or companies in combating money laundering during reviews of proposed bank shares acquisitions or mergers. Urges U.S. negotiations for international cooperation in investigations of money laundering, financial crimes, and the finances of terrorist groups. Establishes civil liability immunity for disclosures by a financial institution that reports suspicious activities. Mandates that financial institutions institute anti-money laundering programs. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize the inclusion of suspicions of illegal activity in written employment references . Mandates that securities brokers and dealers report suspicious financial transactions. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to share monetary instruments transactions records with any U.S. intelligence agency upon request. Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require a consumer reporting agency to furnish all information in a consumer's file to a government agency authorized to conduct investigations of or intelligence activities related to international terrorism. Places within the ambit of mandatory records and reports on monetary instruments transactions any person who engages as a business in the transmission of funds, including through an informal value transfer banking system or network (e.g., hawala) of people facilitating the transfer of value domestically or internationally outside of the conventional financial institutions system. Makes the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network a bureau in the Department of the Treasury. Directs the Secretary to establish a highly secure network in the Network that allows financial institutions to file certain reports and receive alerts and other information regarding suspicious activities warranting immediate and enhanced scrutiny. Increases the civil and criminal penalties for money laundering. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to provide for uniform protection authority for Federal Reserve facilities, including law enforcement officers authorized to carry firearms and make warrantless arrests. Amends Federal law to require reports relating to coins and currency of more than $10,000 received in a nonfinancial trade or business. Establishes as a bulk cash smuggling offense the knowing concealment and attempted transport (or transfer) across U.S. borders of currency and monetary instruments in excess of $10,000, with intent to evade specified currency reporting requirements. Requires courts to order, as part of a criminal sentence, forfeiture of all property involved in certain currency reporting offenses. Amends the Federal criminal code to revise the prohibition of unlicensed (currently, illegal) money transmitting businesses. Increases the criminal penalties for counterfeiting domestic and foreign currency and obligations. Authorizes: (1) the Attorney General to waive certain Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) personnel caps with respect to ensuring security needs on the Northern U.S. border; and (2) appropriations for increased Border Patrol, Customs Service, and INS personnel along such border. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the Attorney General and the FBI to provide the Department of State and the INS with access to specified criminal history extracts in order to determine whether or not a visa or admissions applicant has a criminal history. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to develop a technology standard to identify visa and admissions applicants. Broadens the scope of aliens ineligible for admission and deportable for terrorist activities. Defines "terrorist organization" as: (1) a designated foreign or other terrorist organization; or (2) a group of two or more individuals which engage in specified terrorist-related activities. Provides for mandatory detention until removal from the United States (regardless of any relief from removal) of an alien certified by the Attorney General as a suspected terrorist or threat to national security. Requires release of such alien after seven days if removal proceedings have not commenced, or the alien has not been charged with a criminal offense. Authorizes detention for additional periods of up to six months of an alien not likely to be deported in the reasonably foreseeable future only if release will threaten U.S. national security or the safety of the community or any person. Limits judicial review to habeas corpus proceedings in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Requires the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, in developing the integrated entry and exit data system, to focus on the use of biometric technology and the development of tamper-resistant documents readable at ports of entry. Directs the Attorney General to implement fully and expand the foreign student monitoring program. Requires audits and reports on implementation of the mandate for machine readable passports. Provides for: (1) special immigrant status for certain alien victims of terrorist activities; and (2) humanitarian relief for certain surviving alien spouses and children of U.S. citizens killed by such activities. (Excludes terrorists or family members from such benefits.) Authorizes the Attorney General and revises the Secretary of State's authority to pay rewards to combat terrorism. Qualifies a Federal terrorism offense for collection of DNA for identification Authorizes consultation among Federal law enforcement officers regarding information acquired from an electronic surveillance or physical search in terrorism and related investigations or protective measures. Allows the FBI to request telephone toll and transactional records, financial records, and consumer reports in any investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities only if the investigation is not conducted solely on the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Revises U.S. Secret Service jurisdiction with respect to fraud and related activity in connection with computers. Amends the General Education Provisions Act and the National Education Statistics Act of 1994 to provide for disclosure of educational records to the Attorney General in a terrorism investigation or prosecution. Provides for expedited payments for: (1) public safety officers involved in the prevention, investigation, rescue, or recovery efforts related to a terrorist attack; and (2) heroic public safety officers. Increases Public Safety Officers Benefit Program payments. Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to establish an antiterrorism emergency reserve in the Victims of Crime Fund. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Victims of Crime to make supplemental grants for victims of terrorism to States, victim service organizations, public agencies, and nongovernmental organizations the provide assistance to crime victims. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend Bureau of Justice Assistance regional information sharing system grants to systems that enhance the investigation and prosecution abilities of participating Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies in addressing multi-jurisdictional terrorist conspiracies and activities. Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties for terrorist attacks and other acts of violence against mass transportation systems. Prescribes penalties for harboring any person known to have committed or to be about to commit a terrorism offense. Establishes Federal jurisdiction over crimes committed at U.S. facilities abroad. Subjects to civil forfeiture all assets, foreign or domestic, of terrorist organizations. Extends the statute of limitations for certain terrorism offenses without limit. Provides for alternative maximum penalties for terrorism crimes. Makes the penalties for attempts and conspiracies the same as the penalties for terrorism offenses. Makes any term of years or life the supervised release terms for offenses with terrorism predicates. Makes specified terrorism crimes Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute predicates. Revises prohibitions and penalties with regard to fraud and related activity in connection with computers to include specified cyberterrorism offenses. Directs the Attorney General to establish regional computer forensic laboratories, and support existing laboratories, to develop specified cybersecurity capabilities. Prescribes penalties for knowing possession in certain circumstances of biological agents, toxins, or delivery systems, especially by certain restricted persons. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to establish requirements and priorities for foreign intelligence collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and to provide assistance to the Attorney General to ensure that information derived from electronic surveillance or physical searches is disseminated for efficient and effective foreign intelligence purposes. Requires the inclusion of international terrorist activities within the scope of foreign intelligence under such Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that officers and employees of the intelligence community should establish and maintain intelligence relationships to acquire information on terrorists and terrorist organizations. Provides temporary authority to defer the submission to Congress of certain reports on intelligence and intelligence-related matters. Requires the Attorney General or head of any other Federal department or agency to disclose expeditiously to the DCI any foreign intelligence acquired in the course of a criminal investigation. Requires the Attorney General, DCI, and Secretary of the Treasury to report jointly to Congress on the feasibility and desirability of reconfiguring the Foreign Asset Tracking Center and the Office of Foreign Assets Control to provide for the analysis and dissemination of foreign intelligence relating to the financial capabilities and resources of international terrorist organizations. Requires the DCI to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the establishment and maintenance of the National Virtual Translation Center for timely and accurate translations of foreign intelligence for elements of the intelligence community. Requires the Attorney General to provide a program of training to Government officials regarding the identification and use of foreign intelligence. Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Justice to designate one official to review allegations of abuse of civil rights, civil liberties, and racial and ethnic profiling by government employees and officials. Expresses the sense of Congress condemning acts of violence or discrimination against any American, including Sikh-Americans. Amends the Federal criminal code with respect to venue in money laundering cases. First Responders Assistance Act - Directs the Attorney General to make grants to State and local governments to improve the ability of State and local law enforcement, fire department, and first responders to respond to and prevent acts of terrorism. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make inadmissible to the United States any alien engaged in money laundering. Authorizes funds for Drug Enforcement Administration police training in South and Central Asia. Directs the Attorney General to conduct a feasibility study on the use of a biometric identifier scanning system with access to the FBI integrated automated fingerprint identification system at overseas consular posts and points of entry to the United States. Authorizes the use of Department of Defense funds to contract with local and State governments, during the period of Operation Enduring Freedom, for the performance of security functions at U.S. military installations. Crimes Against Charitable Americans Act of 2001 - Amends the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act to cover fraudulent charitable solicitations. Amends the Federal transportation code to prohibit States from licensing any individual to operate a motor vehicle transporting hazardous material unless the Secretary of Transportation determines that such individual does not pose a security risk warranting denial of the license. Requires background checks of such license applicants by the Attorney General upon State request. Expresses the sense of the Senate on substantial new U.S. investment in bioterrorism preparedness and response. Directs the Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support of the Office of Justice Programs to make grants to enhance State and local capability to prepare for and respond to terrorist acts. Amends the Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998 to extend it through FY 2007 and provide for antiterrorism grants to States and localities. Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 - Establishes the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center to serve as a source of national competence to address critical infrastructure protection and continuity through support for activities related to counterterrorism, threat assessment, and risk mitigation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Provides for the appointment of Patricia Q. Stonesifer as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Extends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2002 through October 31, 2001.