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The bill improves support, feedback, and transparency for state, local, Tribal, and territorial grant recipients—likely making homeland security grants easier to access and more accountable—while increasing administrative burden and costs that could slightly reduce funds available for direct grants and limit program flexibility.
State, local, Tribal, and territorial officials will receive more ongoing outreach, education, and technical assistance to apply for and manage homeland security grants, improving their ability to secure and effectively use federal funds.
Stakeholders (state, local, Tribal, and territorial officials) will have a formal annual opportunity to give feedback on grant awarding and outreach, which can make programs more responsive and better aligned with local needs.
Taxpayers and Congress gain increased transparency and oversight through required GAO review and FEMA reporting on outreach effectiveness, helping identify weaknesses and inform improvements to grant programs.
State and local grant recipients and taxpayers could receive less funding for direct grant awards if additional outreach and reporting increase program administrative costs.
FEMA staff and federal employees will likely face increased administrative workload to implement surveys, summaries, and outreach, which could divert time and resources from other program activities.
Deadlines for GAO and FEMA reports create compliance timelines that could reduce program flexibility and, if missed, trigger additional oversight or consequences for state and local grant processes.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires FEMA to strengthen stakeholder outreach, education, and technical assistance for two preparedness grant programs (Urban Area Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program). It mandates annual surveys of State, local, Tribal, and territorial stakeholders, public summaries of feedback and how that feedback changed grant notices, and authorizes other feedback mechanisms. The Comptroller General must assess outreach effectiveness within two years and FEMA must report on implementation within three years.
Introduced June 20, 2025 by Daniel Goldman · Last progress November 20, 2025