Homeland Security Climate Change Coordination Act
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1Short title
This section would let the Act be called the Homeland Security Climate Change Coordination Act.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Homeland Security Climate Change Coordination Act .
2DHS climate coordinating council
This section would add a new section 890E to the Homeland Security Act of 2002, establishing a council within the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate departmental efforts to identify, address, and mitigate cross-functional impacts of global climate change on the Department's programs, operations, missions, assets, and personnel. The council would have at least 20 members, including senior officials from these offices and components: the Office for Strategy, Policy, and Plans; the Office of Regulatory Affairs; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; the Federal Emergency Management Agency; the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers; the Office of Intelligence and Analysis; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the Management Directorate; the Office of Partnership and Engagement; the Office of Public Affairs; the Office of Operations Coordination; the Office of Privacy; the Science and Technology Directorate; the Transportation Security Administration; the United States Coast Guard; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; and the United States Secret Service, plus any other office or component of the Department that the Secretary of Homeland Security decides is appropriate. The Secretary would designate a senior official from among those listed entities to lead the council. The council would have to identify cross-functional impacts of global climate change on the Department's programs, operations, missions, assets, and personnel; address and mitigate those impacts, including by developing risk-based climate change strategies and frameworks; make recommendations for organizational and resource realignments needed to support those strategies and frameworks; and oversee the Department's implementation of actions required under Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, and other related or successor orders. Not later than one year after enactment, and then annually for ten years after that, the Secretary would have to submit to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs a report on the actions taken under this new section. This section would also add a new table-of-contents entry for section 890E to the table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, placed after the entry for section 890D.
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2. DHS climate coordinating council (a) In general Subtitle H of Title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 451 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 890E. Climate coordinating council. (a) Establishment There is established in the Department a council to coordinate departmental efforts to identify, address, and mitigate cross-functional impacts of global climate change with respect to the Department’s programs, operations, missions, assets, and personnel (in this section referred to as the council ). (b) Size; composition The council shall be comprised of not fewer than 20 members. Such members shall include senior officials from the following: (1) The Office for Strategy, Policy, and Plans. (2) The Office of Regulatory Affairs. (3) U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (4) The Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. (5) The Federal Emergency Management Agency. (6) The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. (7) The Office of Intelligence and Analysis. (8) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (9) The Management Directorate. (10) The Office of Partnership and Engagement. (11) The Office of Public Affairs. (12) The Office of Operations Coordination. (13) The Office of Privacy. (14) The Science and Technology Directorate. (15) The Transportation Security Administration. (16) The United States Coast Guard. (17) United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. (18) The United States Secret Service. (19) Any other office or component of the Department the Secretary determines appropriate. (c) Leadership The Secretary shall designate a senior official from among the entities specified in subsection (b) to lead the council. (d) Duties The council shall carry out the following: (1) Identify cross-functional impacts of global climate change with respect to the Department’s programs, operations, missions, assets, and personnel. (2) Address and mitigate cross-functional impacts of global climate change to the Department by, among other things, developing risk-based climate change strategies and frameworks. (3) Make recommendations, as appropriate, for organizational and resource realignments, as necessary, to support the Department’s risk-based climate change strategies and frameworks. (4) Oversee the implementation of departmental actions as required under Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, and other related or successor orders. (e) Reports Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this section and annually thereafter for ten years, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, a report regarding the actions taken pursuant to this section. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after item relating to section 890D the following new item: Sec. 890E. Climate coordinating council. .
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In the House.