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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2674
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Under Secretary
for Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security
to research and develop approaches to mitigate identified or potential
negative effects of climate change on homeland security, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL7, 2025
Ms. C
LARKEof New York (for herself, Mr. THOMPSONof Mississippi, Mr.
K
ENNEDYof New York, and Mr. CARTERof Louisiana) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security
A BILL
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require
the Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the
Department of Homeland Security to research and de-
velop approaches to mitigate identified or potential nega-
tive effects of climate change on homeland security, 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 ‘‘Department of Home-4
land Security Climate Change Research Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. 1
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Title III of the Homeland Secu-2
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is amended by 3
adding at the end the following new section: 4
‘‘SEC. 324. CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH AND DEVELOP-5
MENT. 6
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Under Secretary for Science 7
and Technology— 8
‘‘(1) shall evaluate existing Federal research re-9
garding approaches to mitigate identified or poten-10
tial negative effects of climate change on homeland 11
security that includes consideration of— 12
‘‘(A) the degree to which such identified or 13
potential negative effects affect preparedness 14
and emergency planning and policies, including 15
with respect to preparedness, response to, and 16
recovery from natural disasters; 17
‘‘(B) the degree to which the Federal fund-18
ing structure to respond to major disaster dec-19
larations and emergency declarations is appro-20
priately structured to address such identified or 21
potential negative effects; and 22
‘‘(C) such other matters as the Under Sec-23
retary determines appropriate; and 24
‘‘(2) may, subject to the availability of appro-25
priations, conduct research and development on ap-26
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proaches to mitigate such identified or potential neg-1
ative effects of climate change on homeland security 2
in response to the evaluation under paragraph (1). 3
‘‘(b) S
COPE.—The scope of the research and develop-4
ment under paragraph (2) of subsection (a)— 5
‘‘(1) shall prioritize mitigating identified or po-6
tential negative effects that impact the ability of the 7
Department to carry out operations; and 8
‘‘(2) may address the matters described in 9
paragraph (1) of such subsection (a). 10
‘‘(c) C
ONSULTATION AND COORDINATION.—In car-11
rying out this section, the Under Secretary for Science and 12
Technology shall consult, and may, as appropriate, coordi-13
nate, with— 14
‘‘(1) the heads of— 15
‘‘(A) other relevant Federal agencies and 16
departments; and 17
‘‘(B) State, local, Tribal, and territorial 18
governments; and 19
‘‘(2) relevant owners and operators of critical 20
infrastructure. 21
‘‘(d) C
LIMATECHANGEDEFINED.—The term ‘cli-22
mate change’ refers to detectable changes in one or more 23
climate system components that is directly or indirectly 24
attributed to— 25
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‘‘(1) human activity; and 1
‘‘(2) altering the composition of the global at-2
mosphere.’’. 3
(b) R
EPORT TOCONGRESS.— Not later than one year 4
after the date of the enactment of this section and annu-5
ally thereafter for three years, the Under Secretary for 6
Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland 7
Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Se-8
curity and the Committee on Science, Space, and Tech-9
nology of the House of Representatives and the Committee 10
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 11
Senate a report on any research and development activi-12
ties carried out pursuant to section 324 of the Homeland 13
Security Act of 2002, as added by subsection (a). 14
(c) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 15
in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 16
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 17
323 the following new item: 18
‘‘Sec. 324. Climate change research and development.’’.
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