HR 6098 EAS

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve the financial assistance provided to State, local, and tribal governments for information sharing activities, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

’, do pass with the followingAMENDMENT:Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

This Act may be cited as the ‘Personnel Reimbursement for Intelligence Cooperation and Enhancement of Homeland Security Act of 2008’ or the ‘PRICE of Homeland Security Act’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Section 2008 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 609) is amended--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) in subsection (a)--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘Grants’ and all that follows through ‘used’ and inserting the following: ‘The Administrator shall permit the recipient of a grant under section 2003 or 2004 to use grant funds’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(B) in paragraph (10), by inserting ‘, regardless of whether such analysts are current or new full-time employees or contract employees’ after ‘analysts’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) in subsection (b)--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(A) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(3) LIMITATIONS ON DISCRETION-CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(A) IN GENERAL- With respect to the use of amounts awarded to a grant recipient under section 2003 or 2004 for personnel costs in accordance with paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Administrator may not--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(i) impose a limit on the amount of the award that may be used to pay for personnel, or personnel-related, costs that is higher or lower than the percent limit imposed in paragraph (2)(A); orCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(ii) impose any additional limitation on the portion of the funds of a recipient that may be used for a specific type, purpose, or category of personnel, or personnel-related, costs.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(B) ANALYSTS- If amounts awarded to a grant recipient under section 2003 or 2004 are used for paying salary or benefits of a qualified intelligence analyst under subsection (a)(10), the Administrator shall make such amounts available without time limitations placed on the period of time that the analyst can serve under the grant.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Attest: Secretary.