SURE Act

Strengthening and Updating Resources and Equipment Act or the SURE Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to permit grants awarded under the State Homeland Security Grant Program or the Urban Area Security Initiative to be used for maintenance agreements, user fees, or sustainment costs for purchased equipment related to preventing, preparing for, protecting against, and responding to acts of terrorism.

Prohibits the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from imposing any time limitation, including any fiscal year limitation, on a grant recipient using a grant awarded under that Program or Initiative to maintain and sustain equipment that had been purchased with a prior fiscal year grant awarded under that Program or Initiative. Makes this Act applicable to grants under the Program or Initiative made on or after October 1, 2008.

Amends the Initiative to require a high-risk urban area, in its application for an Initiative grant, to include the amount of the award it plans to allocate to maintain and sustain target capabilities, including equipment, that have been supported with prior fiscal year funds awarded under the Program or Initiative. Requires the state, in its application for a Program grant, to include the amount of awards it plans to allocate to maintain and sustain target capabilities, including equipment, that have been supported with prior fiscal year funds awarded under the Program or Initiative.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) issue guidance defining costs eligible to be paid with grants under the Program or Initiative for equipment maintenance agreements, user fees, sustainment costs, and any other equipment-related costs, as the Administrator determines is appropriate; (2) review and update such guidance as necessary; and (3) brief the congressional homeland security committees before issuing any guidance, or announcing the award of any grant, under the Program or Initiative.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3837 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3837

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for clarification 
 on the use of funds relating to certain homeland security grants, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 15, 2009

Ms. Kilroy (for herself, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. 
  Pascrell, Ms. Clarke, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. Richardson, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
Sires, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. Cleaver, and Ms. Titus) 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 provide for clarification 
 on the use of funds relating to certain homeland security 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 ``Strengthening and Updating Resources 
and Equipment Act'' or the ``SURE Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION ON USE OF FUNDS RELATING TO CERTAIN HOMELAND 
              SECURITY GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2008 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 609) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(4), by inserting before the semicolon 
        at the end the following: ``, and any related maintenance 
        agreements, user fees, or sustainment costs'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(3), by adding at the end the 
        following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Equipment maintenance.--With respect to the 
                use of amounts awarded to a grant recipient under 
                section 2003 or 2004 for equipment purchase and 
                maintenance costs, the Administrator may not--
                            ``(i) impose a limit on the amount of any 
                        such award that may be used to pay for such 
                        purchase and maintenance costs, including any 
                        costs referred to in subsection (a)(4); or
                            ``(ii) impose any additional limitation, 
                        including any fiscal year limitation, beyond 
                        the limitations described in the matter 
                        preceding paragraph (1) and in paragraph (4) of 
                        subsection (a), on the amount of any such award 
                        that may be used for a specific type, purpose, 
                        or category of equipment purchase or 
                        maintenance cost.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date of the enactment of this section and shall 
apply to grants made under section 2003 or 2004 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604 and 605), in accordance with the 
provisions specified in section 2008 of such Act (6 U.S.C. 609), as 
amended by subsection (a) of this section, on or after October 1, 2008.
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