Homeland Security Capabilities Preservation Reporting Act (HR8874)

Current understanding

HR8874 would require FEMA to submit triennial reports to Congress identifying urban-area security capabilities built with Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) grant funds that are at risk of degradation after a jurisdiction loses UASI eligibility, and to propose at least three years of transitional financial assistance to preserve those capabilities. The bill extends an existing reporting requirement rather than creating new grant authority or programs. Status: introduced in the 119th Congress; no fiscal outlays attached, though any resulting transitional assistance would require future appropriations.

Evidence log

• 2013-03-27 — Mass Transit Intelligence Prioritization Act: cross-connection with mass-transit-intelligence-prioritization-act: Both address preservation and allocation of DHS homeland security capabilities, with the transit bill locking in fusion-center staffing for a specified threat vector. (novelty: 2)

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