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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 321c. Department and Agency officials

Statutory text

(a)

Deputy Administrators

The President may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not more than 4 Deputy Administrators to assist the Administrator in carrying out this subchapter.

(b)

United States Fire Administration

The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration shall have a rank equivalent to an assistant secretary of the Department.

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. Homeland Security Act of 2002

    Pub. L. 107–296 title V § 514 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 321c

    Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 514, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(13), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1409

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 514, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(13), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1409

  2. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018

    Pub. L. 115–278 § 2(g)(4)(B) · 132 Stat. 4168

    1. Redesignated · 6 U.S.C. § 321c(b); 6 U.S.C. § 321c(c)

      Pub. L. 115–278 redesignated subsec. (c) as (b)

    2. Struck · 6 U.S.C. § 321c(b); 6 U.S.C. § 321c(c)

      Pub. L. 115–278 struck out former subsec. (b). Prior to amendment, text of subsec. (b) read as follows: “There is in the Department an Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 115–278 redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b). Prior to amendment, text of subsec. (b) read as follows: “There is in the Department an Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (B) in section 514 (6 U.S.C. 321c)— (i) by striking subsection (b); and (ii) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b); and

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 115–278 redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b). Prior to amendment, text of subsec. (b) read as follows: “There is in the Department an Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 614(b)(3) of Pub. L. 109–295, set out as a note under section 701 of this title.

Credits

2006–2018 · 2 acts
  1. 2006Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 514, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(13), , 120 Stat. 1409
  2. 2018amended Pub. L. 115–278, § 2(g)(4)(B), , 132 Stat. 4178.
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(Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 514, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(13), , 120 Stat. 1409; amended Pub. L. 115–278, § 2(g)(4)(B), , 132 Stat. 4178.)

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