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2005 SESSION


CHAPTER 164
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 52 a chapter numbered 11, consisting of a section numbered 52-47, relating to the Department of State Police; fusion intelligence center.
[H 1966]
Approved March 20, 2005

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Title 52 a chapter numbered 11, consisting of a section numbered 52-47, as follows:

CHAPTER 11.
VIRGINIA FUSION INTELLIGENCE CENTER.

§ 52-47. Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center established.

The Governor shall establish, organize, equip, staff, and maintain a multiagency intelligence fusion center to receive and integrate 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, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from any possible or actual terrorist attack.