S.1846: Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2016

About This Bill

  • Introduced July 23, 2015
  • Latest Major Action May 9, 2016

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Bill Summary

Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2016 or the CIPA (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to add as responsibilities of the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) relating to intelligence and analysis and infrastructure protection: (1) conducting an intelligence-based review and comparison of the risk and consequences to critical infrastructures of threats and hazards, including a geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) caused...

(Source: Library of Congress)

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Bill Actions

Date Description
May 9, 2016
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 457.
May 9, 2016
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-250.
July 29, 2015
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
July 23, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
July 23, 2015

Introduced in the Senate by Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)

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