Anti-Terrorism/Emergency Management/Military
Legislation/Information
Summary of SSL Anti-Terrorism Drafts/Docket Submissions
Suggested State Legislation Drafts
- Computer Contaminants -
2001 SSL
- Disaster Services
Volunteer Leave Act - 1994 SSL
- Field Crop Products:
Civil Liability - 2001 SSL
- Government Mutual Aid
Agreements - 1994 SSL
- International Terrorism -
1998 SSL
- Interstate Emergency
Management Assistance Compact - 1998 SSL
- Terrorism Prevention -
2001 SSL
Suggested State Legislation Docket Items - Status (include in volume, defer to next meeting, reject)
- Anti-Terrorism Act of
2001- SSL Docket 23A (New York S70002 - enacted into law in 2001)
- defer to next meeting
- Anti-Terrorism - SSL
Docket 23A (Indiana, Senate Enrolled Act No. 180) - include in
2003 volume, part 1.
- Biological Weapons - SSL
Docket 21B (Nevada, SB 18 - enacted as Chapter 4 of 1999) -
rejected
- Bioterrorism - SSL Docket
22B (Colorado, Chapter 31 of 2000) - rejected
- Bond Act: Antiterrorism
Safety - SSL Docket 23C (California SB1279)
- Cyber-Terrorism - SSL
Docket 23A (Hawaii SB1615 - carried over to 2002 session) -
rejected
- Discrimination:
California National Guard and State Military Reserve Personnel: Loans
and Financing - SSL Docket 23A (California, Chapter 299 of
2001) - rejected
- Health Insurance State
Employees Who are Called to Active Duty- SSL Docket 23A (OhioSB 173 as
introduced)
- Model State Emergency
Health Powers Act (Georgetown University/John Hopkins University for
the CDC) - defer to next meeting
Legislative specifications
Transmittal letter
Health Privacy Project Comments on Model State Emergency Health Powers Act - Public Disclosure -
Terrorism - SSL Docket 22C (Washington, Chapter 98 of 2001) -
rejected
- Statewide Infrastructure
Protection - SSL Docket 22C (Arizona HB 2324) - rejected
- Uniform Money Services
Act (Uniform Law Commissioners) - include in 2002 volume
Summary
Fact Sheet
Other Related State Legislation
- Adds Terrorism to the
List of Enumerated Aggravated Factors (New Jersey A30)
- Access to Public Records
- Public Security Documents (MD SB240)
- Agriculture - Infectious and Contagious Diseases - Administrative
Search Warrants (MD HB 304)
- Antiterrorism Safety Bond
Act (California SB1279, 2002)
- Antiterrorism Measures
(Indiana H1001)
- Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 (New
Jersey A25)
- Aerial Application of Pesticides: Regulations
(Florida S0014C, Chapter 2001-360)
- Assessing Risks and Prepardness
to Attacks Involving Chemical or Biological Agents (Kentucky BR 914 -
prefiled for 2002 session)
- Authorizing Governor to
Access Funds to Address Terrorism (North Carolina HB 1471)
- Biological Agents
Registry (North Carolina HB 1472)
- Catastrophic Health
Emergencies (MD SB 234)
- Chemical/Biological Weapons
(Michigan P.A. 135 of 2001)
- Compensation for Innocent
Victims of Crime (Delaware HB 343)
- Comprehensive Terrorism
Act (Virginia HB 453)
- Communications
Interception (Florida S 0012C, Chapter 2000-359)
- Cooperation by Institutions of Higher Education
with Federal Anti-Terrorism Measures (Colorado Chapter 265, 2002)
- Cooperative Anti-Terrorism,
Policies, Procedures (Virginia SJR 39)
- Crime of Biological
Terrorism (New York S 5811)
- Criminal Penalties -
Weapons of Mass Destruction (North Carolina SL2001 - 470 - HB1468)
- Database of Emergency
Contact Numbers for Public Officials/Employees (South Dakota SB 38 -
passed Senate, January 15, 02)
- Department of Health
Bioterrorism Unit (Virginia HB 882)
- Domestic Security & Counter-Terrorism
Intelligence Center (Florida S0026C, Chapter 2001-366)
- Domestic Security Preparedness
Act (New Jersey Chapter 246 of 2001)
- Domestic Terrorism
(Illinois HB 2299 - passed legislature, 11/29/01)
- Emergency Health Powers
Act - (Massachusetts SB 2194 pending in Legislature as of 11/26/01)
- Emergency Health Powers
Act - (Missouri SB 712)
- Emergency Management
Agency Act (Illinois P.A. 92-73 of 2001)
- Estates of Victims of September 11, 2001
Terrorist Attacks (Maryland Chapter 97 of 2002)
- Fraudulently Soliciting
or Receiving Disaster Assistance Funds Related to the Attack on the World
Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 (New Jersey A3821)
- Freedom of Information;
exemptions relating to terrorism (Virginia HB 700)
- Freedom to Report Terrorism (New York Chapter
651 of 2007)
- Freezing Certain Funds or
Assets Relating to Terrorism (New Jersey A3826 - introduced November 8,
2001)
- Governor's Emergency
Powers (MD HB 303)
- Individual Income Tax
Liability of Certain Persons Who Have Died as a Result of a Terrorist
Attack (Virginia SB 212)
- (Intrastate/Local)
Emergency Management Assistance Compact
- Life Insurance Benefits
for Death as a Result of War or Military Action, Exclusion Prohibited
(Kentucky SB 42)
- Liberty and Resurgence
Zone Program - New York City (New York A9466)
- Nuclear, Biological, or
Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction (North Carolina Session Law
2001-1470)
- Office of Preparedness
and Coordination (Virginia HB 800)
- Office for Security
Coordination in the Department of Military Affairs
- Open Records Exemptions
(Kentucky SB 136)
- Pathogens; Intent to
Injure or Cause Death (Virginia SB 421)
- Penalties - Harmful
Biological Substance, Harmful Biological Device (Michigan P.A. 136 of
2001)
- Poisoning (Florida S0010C, Chapter 2001-358)
- Prohibiting Insurance
Contracts from Exempting Claims Resulting from Terrorism (New York
S5798)
- Prohibiting Terrorism against Agricultural
Products or Equipment (Ohio Sub. S. B. No. 67, 2005)
- Prohibiting Terrorism
Exclusion in Insurance Policies (New Jersey A508)
- Public Records/Emergency-Management Plans of
Hospitals (Florida S0018C, Chapter 2001-362)
- Public Records/Law Enforcement (Florida S0022C,
Chapter 2001-364)
- Public Records/Pharmaceutical Records (Florida
S0020C, Chapter 2001-363)
- Public
Records/Security-System Plan (Florida S0016C, Chapter 2001-361)
- Resolution Urging Boards
of Directors of the Regional Biotechnology Research Centers to Make Their
Top Priority the Creation and Enhancement of Research and Development of
Commercially Useful Products or Intellectual Property to Mitigate
Biological Agents or Toxins (Pennsylvania HR 366)
- Regional Domestic Security Task Forces (Florida
S0024C, Chapter 2001-365)
- Restricting Property Uses
Near Air Force Bases (Oklahoma SB 658 of 2001)
- Revising the Governor's
Emergency Powers in the Event of a Terrorist or Bioterrorist Attack (South
Dakota HB 1303)
- Roving Interception of
Communication in Cases of Terrorism (New York S5793)
- School Crisis and
Emergency Management Plans (Virginia HB 46)
- Security Council
(Maryland SB242)
- Sentencing, Act of
Terrorism (Florida S0008C, Chapter 2001-357)
- September 11th, 2001
Anti-Terrorism Act (New Jersey A 3825 - introduced
November 8, 2001)
- Services to Victims of
Terrorism (California Chapter 346 of 2001)
- State Police Terrorism
Special Unit (Virginia HB 876)
- Terrorism Offenses
(Virginia HB1120)
- Terrorism - Pretrial
Detention (Florida S0006C, Chapter 2001-356)
- Terroristic Threatening
(Kentucky HB 1 of 2001)
- Volunteer in Public Service
Negligence Standard (Pennsylvania HB 910)
- Vulnerability Reports
(Texas HB 249)
State Policies Concerning Employees Serving in the Military
- State Employees and the
U.S. Military Reserves: Heeding the Call - 2001
- Ohio - Military
Leave: A Consolidation of Information for State Employees and Agency
Personnel
- Wyoming Executive Order supporting state employees
called to active duty
- West Virginia - HB 605:
Personal Income Tax Exemptions
State Anti-Terrorism/Security Task Forces/Commissions/Directors/Homeland Security Links
- Alabama - Director of Homeland
Security (Brigadier Gen. Mike Sumrall)
- Alaska - Homeland Security Information
- American Samoa - Territorial
Preparedness Task Force
- Arizona - Operation Vigilance
(includes Domestic Operations Center, Dept. of Public Safety)/Homeland Security
- Colorado - Office of
Preparedness and Security
- Delaware - Anti-Terrorism
Coordinator (Sean Mulhern)
- Florida - Domestic Security (Steve
Lauer, Chief)
- Georgia - Homeland Security
Task Force (Robert C. Hightower)
- Idaho - State Domestic
Preparedness Council (Adjutant General Jack Kane, Director)/America United
- Illinois - Terrorism Task
Force/Homeland Security Coordinator (Matt Bentenhausen)/Emergency Management Agency
- Indiana - Counter-Terrorism and Security Council (Director,
Clifford Ong)
- Iowa - Homeland Security Advisor (Ellen Gordon)
- Kentucky - Homeland Security Team (Adjutant General D. Allen
Youngman)
- Louisiana -Terrorism Advisory
Group/Office of Emergency Preparedness
- Massachusetts - Director of Commonwealth
Security (Cabinet level)
- Minnesota - Office of Homeland
Security
- Mississippi - Emergency Management Agency
- Missouri - Special Advisor for
Homeland Security (Col. Timothy Daniel)
- Montana - Homeland Security
Task Force (Administrator, Jim Greene)/Disaster and Emergency
Services
- Nebraska - Bioterrorism Health
Alert Network/Domestic Preparedness Task Force/Emergency Response
Commission
- New Hampshire - Commission on
Preparedness and Security/Office of Emergency
Management
- New Jersey- Domestic Security
Preparedness Task Force (Attorney General John Farmer)
- New York - Office of Public
Security (James Kallstrom)
- North Dakota - Homeland Security (Coordinator, Doug Friez)
- North Carolina - Safety And Security Website
Ohio - Interagency Security Task Force - Oklahoma - Joint Homeland
Security Task Force (Ken Levit)
- Pennsylvania - Homeland Security Web Site
- South Carolina - Governor's
Security Council, Homeland Security Office
(Director, Maj. Gen Steve Siegfried)
- Tennessee - Office of Homeland Security (Brigadier
Gen. Wendell Gilbert)
- Texas - Governor's Task Force on
Homeland Security (David Dewhurst)
- Utah - Department of Public Safety
- Vermont - Emergency Management Agency
- Virginia - Preparedness and
Security Panel (M. Wayne Huggins)/Department of Emergency Management
- West Virginia - Homeland
Security Commission (Joe Martin)
- Wisconsin - Task Force to
Review Terrorism Preparedness/Domestic Preparedness
- Wyoming - Counter Terrorism
Commission (Chair, Attorney General, Hoke MacMillan)
Other Information/Links
- Jurist, The Legal Education Network
- OJP Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness
Support
- Transportation Security System Links (ASHTO)