SB918: Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; receive & integrate criminal-related intelligence information.

SENATE BILL NO. 918
Offered January 12, 2011
Prefiled January 10, 2011
A BILL to amend and reenact § 52-47 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center.
Patron-- McDougle

Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 52-47 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 52-47. Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center established.

The Governor shall establish, organize, equip, staff, and maintain a multiagency fusion intelligence center to receive and integrate criminal-related and terrorist-related intelligence and information. The Department of State Police shall operate the facility, as directed by the Governor and in cooperation with the Department of Emergency Management and other such state and local agencies and private organizations as the Governor may deem appropriate. The fusion center shall collect, analyze, disseminate, and maintain such information to support local, state, and federal law-enforcement agencies, and other governmental agencies and private organizations in preventing and deterring criminal activity and preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from any possible or actual terrorist attack.