[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 296 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 296

To specify that the 100 most populous urban areas of the United States, 
as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall be eligible 
 for grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative of the Department 
             of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2007

  Ms. Matsui introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To specify that the 100 most populous urban areas of the United States, 
as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall be eligible 
 for grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative of the Department 
             of Homeland Security, 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 ``Urban Area Security Initiative 
Improvement Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS UNDER URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE.

    (a) Eligibility.--
            (1) In general.--Each of the 100 most populous urban areas 
        of the United States shall be eligible for a grant under the 
        Urban Area Security Initiative.
            (2) Determination.--For purposes of this subsection, the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine the urban areas 
        referred to in paragraph (1) in accordance with the data 
        collected in the most recent census of the United States.
    (b) Sensitivity Analysis.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
award grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative after considering 
a study of how the variation in the output of models (numerical or 
otherwise) used for such awards can be apportioned, qualitatively or 
quantitatively, to different sources of variation (commonly referred to 
as sensitivity analysis).
    (c) Urban Area Security Initiative Defined.--In this section the 
term ``Urban Area Security Initiative'' means the Urban Area Security 
Initiative grant program administered by the Department of Homeland 
Security from funds appropriated for discretionary grants to high-
threat, high-density urban areas.
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