United States S 3973: National Domestic Preparedness Consortium Reauthorization Act

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119TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION S. 3973
To reauthorize the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, and for
other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH 3, 2026
Mr. KENNEDY introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To reauthorize the National Domestic Preparedness
Consortium, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Domestic 4
Preparedness Consortium Reauthorization Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC 6
PREPAREDNESS CONSORTIUM. 7
Section 1204 of the Implementing Recommendations 8
of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (6 U.S.C. 1102) is 9
amended— 10
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(1) in subsection (b)— 1
(A) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘/Acad-2
emy of Counter-Terrorist Education’’ after 3
‘‘Training’’; 4
(B) in paragraph (4)— 5
(i) by striking ‘‘Rescue’’ and inserting 6
‘‘Recovery’’; and 7
(ii) by striking ‘‘University’’ and in-8
serting ‘‘Engineering Extension Service’’; 9
(C) by amending paragraphs (5) and (6) 10
to read as follows: 11
‘‘(5) Counterterrorism Operations Support/Ne-12
vada Nuclear Security Sites under the National Nu-13
clear Security Administration; 14
‘‘(6) MxV Learning Institute in Pueblo, Colo-15
rado;’’; 16
(D) in paragraph (7), by striking the pe-17
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 18
(E) by adding at the end the following: 19
‘‘(8) the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consor-20
tium of the Center for Rural Development, Som-21
erset, Kentucky.’’; 22
(2) in subsection (c)— 23
(A) by striking ‘‘and tribal’’ and inserting 24
‘‘tribal, and territorial public safety and’’; 25
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(B) by striking ‘‘at the performance and’’ 1
and inserting ‘‘through various modalities at 2
the performance,’’; and 3
(C) by inserting ‘‘and education’’ after ‘‘of 4
training’’; 5
(3) in subsection (d), by amending paragraph 6
(2) to read as follows: 7
‘‘(2) for the entities described in paragraphs (2) 8
through (8) of subsection (b)— 9
‘‘(A) $111,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; 10
‘‘(B) $114,000,000 for fiscal year 2028; 11
‘‘(C) $117,000,000 for fiscal year 2029; 12
‘‘(D) $120,000,000 for fiscal year 2030; 13
and 14
‘‘(E) $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2031.’’; 15
and 16
(4) by amending subsection (e) to read as fol-17
lows: 18
‘‘(e) SAVINGS PROVISION.— 19
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts appro-20
priated pursuant to this section, the Secretary shall 21
ensure that amounts provided to each of the entities 22
described in paragraphs (2) through (7) of sub-23
section (b) are not less than the amounts provided 24
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to each such entity for participation in the Consor-1
tium in fiscal year 2023. 2
‘‘(2) PROPORTIONAL ALLOCATION.— 3
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the event the total 4
amount appropriated, in the aggregate, for all 5
entities described in paragraphs (2) through (7) 6
of subsection (b) in a fiscal year under sub-7
section (d)(2) is less than the sum of the 8
amounts authorized to be appropriated in that 9
fiscal year, the Secretary shall allocate funds 10
proportionally to those entities in the same 11
manner as such funds were allocated in fiscal 12
year 2023. 13
‘‘(B) EQUAL DISTRIBUTION.—Unless oth-14
erwise directed, appropriation increases under 15
subparagraph (A) shall be equally distributed to 16
the entities described in paragraphs (2) through 17
(7) of subsection (b).’’. 18
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