Bills Introduced – 1-21-21

Yesterday, with both the House and Senate in session, there were 81 bills introduced. Of those, one bill will receive additional coverage in this blog:

HR 397 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear intelligence and information sharing functions of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security and to require dissemination of information analyzed by the Department to entities with responsibilities relating to homeland security, and for other purposes. Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A. [R-FL-26]

While Gimenez is a first term Representative, this bill sounds very much like HR 1589 from last session. That bill was introduced by Rep. Walker (R,NC) who is no longer in Congress. That bill was passed in the House in 2019 and amended/adopted by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, but it was never taken up by the full Senate.