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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Part I · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 486. Limitation of liability

Statutory text

A person who has completed a security awareness training course approved by or operated under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Homeland Security using funds made available in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter or in any prior appropriations Acts, who is enrolled in a program recognized or acknowledged by an Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and who reports a situation, activity or incident pursuant to that program to an appropriate authority, shall not be liable for damages in any action brought in a Federal or State court which result from any act or omission unless such person is guilty of gross negligence or willful misconduct.

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 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2006

    Pub. L. 109–90 title V § 541 · 119 Stat. 2064

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 486

    (Pub. L. 109–90, title V, § 541, Oct. 18, 2005, 119 Stat. 2089.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 109–90, title V, § 541, Oct. 18, 2005, 119 Stat. 2089.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 541. A person who has completed a security awareness training course approved by or operated under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Homeland Security using funds made available in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter or in any prior appropriations Acts, who is enrolled in a program recognized or acknowledged by an Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and who reports a situation, activity or incident pursuant to that program to an appropriate authority, shall not be liable for damages in any action brought in a Federal or State court which result from any act or omission unless such person is guilty of gross negligence or willful misconduct.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2006, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 109–90, title V, § 541, , 119 Stat. 2089.)

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