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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 491. National Homeland Security Council

Statutory text

There is established within the Executive Office of the President a council to be known as the “Homeland Security Council” (in this subchapter referred to as the “Council”).

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 IX § 901 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 491

    (Pub. L. 107–296, title IX, § 901, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2258.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–296, title IX, § 901, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2258.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 901. NATIONAL HOMELAND SECURITY COUNCIL. There is established within the Executive Office of the President a council to be known as the “Homeland Security Council” (in this title referred to as the “Council”).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IX, § 901, , 116 Stat. 2258.)

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