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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 84 — Department of Energy

§ 7144a. Establishment of security, counterintelligence, and intelligence policies

Statutory text

The Secretary shall be responsible for developing and promulgating the security, counterintelligence, and intelligence policies of the Department. The Secretary may use the immediate staff of the Secretary to assist in developing and promulgating those policies.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Department of Energy Organization Act

    Pub. L. 95–91 title II § 214 · 91 Stat. 565

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7144a

    Pub. L. 95–91, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3204(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 955

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 95–91, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3204(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 955

  2. John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007

    Pub. L. 109–364 div. C title XXXI § 3117(g) · 120 Stat. 2083

    1. Amended · 42 U.S.C. § 7144a

      Pub. L. 109–364 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)

    2. Added · 42 U.S.C. § 7144a

      Pub. L. 109–364 added subsecs. (b) and (c)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 109–364 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (g) Intelligence Executive Committee; Budget for Intelligence and Counterintelligence.— Section 214 of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7144a) is amended— (1) by inserting “(a)” before “The Secretary shall be responsible”; and (2) by adding at the end the following: “(b) (1) Establishment. There is within the Department an Intelligence Executive Committee. The Committee shall consist of the Deputy Secretary of Energy, who shall chair the Committee, and each Under Secretary of Energy. “(2) The Committee shall be staffed by the Director of the Office of Intelligence and the Director of the Office of Counterintelligence. “(3) The Secretary shall use the Committee to assist in developing and promulgating the counterintelligence and intelligence policies, requirements, and priorities of the Department. “(c) In the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of each budget submitted by the President to Congress under title 31, United States Code, the amounts requested for the Department for intelligence functions and the amounts requested for the Department for counterintelligence functions shall each be specified in appropriately classified individual, dedicated program elements. Within the amounts requested for counterintelligence functions, the amounts requested for the National Nuclear Security Administration shall be specified separately from the amounts requested for other elements of the Department.” .

  3. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020

    Pub. L. 116–92 div. E title LXIV § 6422 · 133 Stat. 1198

    Struck · 42 U.S.C. § 7144a

    Pub. L. 116–92 struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsecs. (b) and (c), which, respectively, established the Intelligence Executive Committee and provided for budget justification materials

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 116–92 struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsecs. (b) and (c), which, respectively, established the Intelligence Executive Committee and provided for budget justification materials.

2 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments2006–2019 · 2 rounds

2019

Pub. L. 116–92 struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsecs. (b) and (c), which, respectively, established the Intelligence Executive Committee and provided for budget justification materials.

2006

Pub. L. 109–364 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 3299 of Pub. L. 106–65, set out as a note under section 2401 of Title 50, War and National Defense.

Credits

1999–2019 · 3 acts
  1. 1999Pub. L. 95–91, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3204(a), , 113 Stat. 955
  2. 2006amended Pub. L. 109–364, div. C, title XXXI, § 3117(g), , 120 Stat. 2508
  3. 2019Pub. L. 116–92, div. E, title LXIV, § 6422, , 133 Stat. 2200.
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(Pub. L. 95–91, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3204(a), , 113 Stat. 955; amended Pub. L. 109–364, div. C, title XXXI, § 3117(g), , 120 Stat. 2508; Pub. L. 116–92, div. E, title LXIV, § 6422, , 133 Stat. 2200.)

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