[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 625 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 625

 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

                            January 21, 2009

  Mr. Weiner (for himself, Mr. Flake, Mr. Burton of Indiana, and Mr. 
  Gonzalez) 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 2009''.

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 describing the nature and amount of 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 cover 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 the nature and amount of each expenditure covered by 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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