• 2011: Congressman Trent Franks and 24 Co-Sponsors introduce HR 668 – The SHIELD Act – status: now in committee. For more information, visit www.SHIELDAct.com.
• 2010: Energy and Commerce Committee introduces HR 5026 – The Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense Act a/k/a the ‘‘GRID Act” – status, passed U.S. House of Representatives unanimously, now with U.S Senate
• 2010: Homeland Security Committee recommends setting up new committee to pick-up where EMP Commission left off – recommends adding to its appropriations bill (add Title VII to HR 4842) - now with Science & Technology Committee
• 2009: Sub. Comms. of House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees hold hearings and introduce draft legislation (HR 2195 and HR 2165 respectively – neither is pending now)
• 2008: Final Report Released
• 2004: Executive Report Released
• 2001: EMP Commission Formed
• Multiple municipal organizations in New York State, including county and state wide organizations, have passed resolutions requesting immediate action to protect their citizens against EMP.
• Examples, the Erie County Association of Governments, the Village Officials Association of Erie County, NY, and the New York State Association of Towns (representing 932 towns across the state) all recently passed resolutions asking for action to be taken.
• NYS Legislation Introduced: Title of Bill: An act to create a commission to be known as the New York State EMP Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission.
• S. 7699
• A. 10953
• PURPOSE OF THE BILL: To create the New York State EMP Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission charged with identifying any necessary steps that it believes should be taken by New York State to protect its civilian systems from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event.
The NYS Commission would:• educate itself about EMP and EMP threats to New York State’s infrastructures
• gather facts as needed
• make recommendations
• inform local agencies and governments about the hazards of natural and man-made EMP events
• assess the dangers from all EMP threats
• develop a plan to protect the state from an EMP event, as well as responding to the aftermath and recovery after such an event
Assoc. of Erie County, New York
Download: <06 Resolution - Assoc of Erie County Gov - EMP - 10-22-09 - certified.pdf>
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Village Officials Assoc. of Erie County, New York
Download: <07 Resolution - Village Officials Assoc of Erie County NY - EMP - 01-21-2010 - certified.pdf>
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Assoc. of Towns, State of New York
Download: <08 Resolution - Assoc of Towns State of NY - EMP - 02-17- 2010 - statewide - passed unanimous.pdf>
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