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Union Calendar No. 616 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5460 

[Report No. 114–788] 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a review process 

to review applications for certain grants to purchase equipment or systems that do not meet or exceed any applicable national voluntary consensus standards, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 13, 2016 

Mr. PAYNE (for himself and Mr. DONOVAN) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 13, 2016] 


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A BILL 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 

a review process to review applications for certain grants 

to purchase equipment or systems that do not meet 

or exceed any applicable national voluntary consensus 

standards, and for other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘First Responder Access 

5 to Innovative Technologies Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. APPROVAL OF CERTAIN EQUIPMENT. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (f) of section 2008 of the 

8 Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 609) is amend9 ed— 

10 (1) by striking ‘‘If an applicant’’ and inserting 

11 the following: 

12 ‘‘(1) APPLICATION REQUIREMENT.—If an appli13 cant’’; and 

14 (2) by adding at the end the following new para15 graphs: 

16 ‘‘(2) REVIEW PROCESS.—The Administrator 

17 shall implement a uniform process for reviewing ap18 plications that, in accordance with paragraph (1), 

19 contain explanations to use grants provided under 

20 section 2003 or 2004 to purchase equipment or sys21 tems that do not meet or exceed any applicable na22 tional voluntary consensus standards developed under 

23 section 647 of the Post-Katrina Emergency Manage24 ment Reform Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 747). 


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1 ‘‘(3) FACTORS.—In carrying out the review proc2 ess under paragraph (2), the Administrator shall con3 sider the following: 

4 ‘‘(A) Current or past use of proposed equip5 ment or systems by Federal agencies or the 

6 Armed Forces. 

7 ‘‘(B) The absence of a national voluntary 

8 consensus standard for such equipment or sys9 tems. 

10 ‘‘(C) The existence of an international con11 sensus standard for such equipment or systems, 

12 and whether such equipment or systems meets 

13 such standard. 

14 ‘‘(D) The nature of the capability gap iden15 tified by the applicant and how such equipment 

16 or systems will address such gap. 

17 ‘‘(E) The degree to which such equipment or 

18 systems will serve the needs of the applicant bet19 ter than equipment or systems that meet or ex20 ceed existing consensus standards. 

21 ‘‘(F) Any other factor determined appro22 priate by the Administrator.’’. 

23 (b) INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT.—Not later than 

24 three years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

25 Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security 


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1 shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the 

2 House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 

3 Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report 

4 assessing the implementation of the review process estab5 lished under paragraph (2) of subsection (f) of section 2008 

6 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (as added by sub7 section (a) of this section), including information on the 

8 following: 

9 (1) The number of requests to purchase equip10 ment or systems that do not meet or exceed any appli11 cable consensus standard evaluated under such review 

12 process. 

13 (2) The capability gaps identified by applicants 

14 and the number of such requests granted or denied. 

15 (3) The processing time for the review of such re16 quests. 


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Union Calendar No. 616 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5460 

[Report No. 114–788] 

A BILL 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 

other purposes. national voluntary consensus standards, and for tems that do not meet or exceed any applicable for certain grants to purchase equipment or sysestablish a review process to review applications 

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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