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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2476 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide funding to secure 

nonprofit facilities from terrorist attacks, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 2, 2019 

Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. KING of New 

York, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. ROSE of New York, Mr. 

BALDERSON, Mr. COHEN, Ms. MOORE, Ms. NORTON, Mr. RUSH, Miss 

RICE of New York, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Ms. SPEIER, Mrs. WATSON

COLEMAN, Mr. TONKO, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. TITUS, Ms. CLARKE of New 

York, Ms. BASS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. SLOTKIN, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. 

HIGGINS of New York, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. WELCH, Ms. 

JACKSON LEE, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. 

LOWENTHAL, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. HOULAHAN, Ms. 

VELA ́ZQUEZ, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. ENGEL, Mrs. DEMINGS, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. EVANS, Mrs. DINGELL, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, 

Mr. TURNER, Mr. CORREA, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, 

Ms. MENG, Ms. BARRAGA ́N, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. COOPER, 

Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Ms. STEVENS, Mr. RYAN, Mr. 

CISNEROS, Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio, Mr. HURD of Texas, Ms. BONAMICI, 

Ms. GABBARD, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. LAMB, Mr. PETERS, Mr. HARDER

of California, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. DEFAZIO, 

Ms. FRANKEL, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. BERA, Ms. TORRES SMALL of New 

Mexico, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. HIMES, Mrs. AXNE, Mr. 

MCCAUL, Mr. BACON, Miss GONZA ́LEZ-COLO ́N of Puerto Rico, Ms. 

FUDGE, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Ms. HAALAND, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. DEAN, 

Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. COURTNEY, and Mr. CHABOT) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 

A BILL 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide 


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funding to secure nonprofit facilities from terrorist attacks, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Securing American 

5 Nonprofit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. NONPROFIT SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title XX of the 

8 Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) 

9 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 2009. NONPROFIT SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM. 

11 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 

12 Department a program to be known as the ‘Nonprofit Se13 curity Grant Program’ (in this section referred to as the 

14 ‘Program’). Under the Program, the Secretary, acting 

15 through the Administrator, shall make grants to eligible 

16 nonprofit organizations described in subsection (b), 

17 through the State in which such organizations are located, 

18 for target hardening and other security enhancements to 

19 protect against terrorist attacks. 

20 ‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS.—Eligible nonprofit or21 ganizations described in this subsection (a) are organiza22 tions that are— 


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1 ‘‘(1) described in section 501(c)(3) of the Inter2 nal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax 

3 under section 501(a) of such Code; and 

4 ‘‘(2) determined to be at risk of a terrorist at5 tack by the Administrator. 

6 ‘‘(c) PERMITTED USES.—The recipient of a grant 

7 under this section may use such grant for any of the fol8 lowing uses: 

9 ‘‘(1) Target hardening activities, including 

10 physical security enhancement equipment and in11 spection and screening systems. 

12 ‘‘(2) Fees for security training relating to phys13 ical security and cybersecurity, target hardening, 

14 terrorism awareness, and employee awareness. 

15 ‘‘(3) Any other appropriate activity, including 

16 cybersecurity resilience activities, as determined by 

17 the Administrator. 

18 ‘‘(d) PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE.—The Adminis19 trator shall make funds provided under this section avail20 able for use by a recipient of a grant for a period of not 

21 less than 36 months. 

22 ‘‘(e) REPORT.—The Administrator shall annually for 

23 each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024 submit to the 

24 Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Rep25 resentatives and the Committee on Homeland Security 


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1 and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report con2 taining information on the expenditure by each grant re3 cipient of grant funds made under this section. 

4 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

5 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 

6 appropriated $75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 

7 2020 through 2024 to carry out this section. 

8 ‘‘(2) SPECIFICATION.—Of the amounts author9 ized to be appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1)— 

10 ‘‘(A) $50,000,000 is authorized for eligible 

11 recipients located in jurisdictions that receive 

12 funding under section 2003; and 

13 ‘‘(B) $25,000,000 is authorized for eligible 

14 recipients in jurisdictions not receiving funding 

15 under section 2003.’’. 

16 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (a) of 

17 section 2002 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 

18 U.S.C. 603) is amended by striking ‘‘sections 2003 and 

19 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘sections 2003, 2004, and 2009’’. 

20 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

21 in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 

22 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

23 2008 the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 2009. Nonprofit security grant program.’’ 

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