Homeland Security Transparency Act of 2006

Homeland Security Transparency Act of 2006 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) require homeland security grant recipients to submit quarterly reports on each expenditure made using grant funds; and (2) publish and make publicly available on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Internet website a description of each such expenditure.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5191 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5191

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of 
 Homeland Security to require, as a condition of receiving a homeland 
     security grant, that a grant recipient submit reports on each 
                  expenditure made using grant funds.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2006

  Mr. Weiner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of 
 Homeland Security to require, as a condition of receiving a homeland 
     security grant, that a grant recipient submit reports on each 
                  expenditure made using grant funds.

    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 ``Homeland Security Transparency Act 
of 2006''.

SEC. 2. EXPENDITURE REPORTS AS A CONDITION OF HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle H of title VIII of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

``SEC. 890A. EXPENDITURE REPORTS AS A CONDITION OF HOMELAND SECURITY 
              GRANTS.

    ``(a) Quarterly Reports Required as a Condition of Homeland 
Security Grants.--
            ``(1) Expenditure reports required.--As a condition of 
        receiving a grant administered by the Secretary, the Secretary 
        shall require the grant recipient to submit quarterly reports 
        to the Secretary that describe each expenditure made by the 
        recipient using grant funds.
            ``(2) Deadline for reports.--Each report required under 
        paragraph (1) shall be submitted not later than 30 days after 
        the last day of a fiscal quarter and shall describe 
        expenditures made during that fiscal quarter.
    ``(b) Publication of Expenditures.--Not later than one week after 
receiving a report under subsection (a), the Secretary shall publish 
and make publicly available on the Internet website of the Department a 
description of each expenditure described in the report.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
such Act is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to such 
subtitle the following:

``Sec. 890A. Expenditure reports as a condition of homeland security 
                            grants''.
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