To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to award Urban Area Security Initiative grants to nonprofit organizations not located in high-risk urban areas.

Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to award Urban Area Security Initiative grants to nonprofit organizations located in areas that are not designated as high-risk urban areas.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3891 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3891

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary 
of Homeland Security to award Urban Area Security Initiative grants to 
     nonprofit organizations not located in high-risk urban areas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2014

  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 authorize the Secretary 
of Homeland Security to award Urban Area Security Initiative grants to 
     nonprofit organizations not located in high-risk urban areas.

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

SECTION 1. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AUTHORITY TO AWARD URBAN 
              AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE GRANTS TO NONPROFIT 
              ORGANIZATIONS NOT LOCATED IN HIGH-RISK URBAN AREAS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2003 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 604) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
        subsection (e):
    ``(e) Special Rule for Grants to Nonprofit Organizations.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may award a 
grant under this section to an organization (as described under section 
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax 
section 501(a) of such code) located in an area that is not designated 
as a high-risk urban area.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) apply 
with respect to a grant made after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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