Title: Transit Security Grant Program Flexibility Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Transit Security Grant Program Flexibility Act
This bill amends the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 to permit the use of public transportation security assistance grant funds for backfill associated with security training.
Funds provided pursuant to such a grant for a specified authorized use shall, with two exceptions, remain available for use by a grant recipient for at least 36 months.
Any such funds used for security improvements for public transportation systems or security improvements for stations and other public transportation infrastructure, including those owned by state or local governments, shall remain available for at least 55 months.
The Government Accountability Office shall review the public transportation security assistance grant program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 549 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 549

To amend the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 
      2007 to clarify certain allowable uses of funds for public 
  transportation security assistance grants and establish periods of 
          performance for such grants, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2017

Mr. Donovan (for himself, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Katko, Miss Rice of 
  New York, Mr. Payne, and Mr. McCaul) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 
      2007 to clarify certain allowable uses of funds for public 
  transportation security assistance grants and establish periods of 
          performance for such grants, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transit Security Grant Program 
Flexibility Act''.

SEC. 2. ALLOWABLE USES OF FUNDS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SECURITY 
              ASSISTANCE GRANTS.

    Subparagraph (A) of section 1406(b)(2) of the Implementing 
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (6 U.S.C. 
1135(b)(2); Public Law 110-53) is amended by inserting ``and associated 
backfill'' after ``security training''.

SEC. 3. PERIODS OF PERFORMANCE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SECURITY 
              ASSISTANCE GRANTS.

    Section 1406 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 
Commission Act of 2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135; Public Law 110-53) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (m) as subsection (n); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (l) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(m) Periods of Performance.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), 
        funds provided pursuant to a grant awarded under this section 
        for a use specified in subsection (b) shall remain available 
        for use by a grant recipient for a period of not fewer than 36 
        months.
            ``(2) Exception.--Funds provided pursuant to a grant 
        awarded under this section for a use specified in subparagraph 
        (M) or (N) of subsection (b)(1) shall remain available for use 
        by a grant recipient for a period of not fewer than 55 
        months.''.

SEC. 4. GAO REVIEW.

    (a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
conduct a review of the transit security grant program under section 
1406 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 
2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135; Public Law 110-53).
    (b) Scope.--The review required under paragraph (1) shall include 
the following:
            (1) An assessment of the type of projects funded under the 
        transit security grant program referred to in such paragraph.
            (2) An assessment of the manner in which such projects 
        address threats to transportation infrastructure.
            (3) An assessment of the impact, if any, of this Act 
        (including the amendments made by this Act) on types of 
        projects funded under the transit security grant program.
            (4) An assessment of the management and administration of 
        transit security grant program funds by grantees.
            (5) Recommendations to improve the manner in which transit 
        security grant program funds address vulnerabilities in 
        transportation infrastructure.
            (6) Recommendations to improve the management and 
        administration of the transit security grant program.
    (c) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and again not later than five years after such 
date of enactment, the Comptroller General shall submit to the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a 
report on the review required under this section.
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