An amendment numbered 14 printed in House Report 111-127 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to collect public comments from transit agencies to determine the extent to which current allowable uses of grant funds under the Transit Security Grant Program are sufficient to address security improvement priorities identified by transit agencies. Where security improvement priorities identified by local transit agencies are not met by the regulations implementing the grant program, the Secretary will report to Congress on how such regulations should be changed to accommodate them or why these are not appropriate priorities.

1. Adds SEC. __. PUBLIC HEARINGS ON SECURITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM AND THE RESTRICTION OF SECURITY IMPROVEMENT PRIORITIES at the end of title III

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. __. PUBLIC HEARINGS ON SECURITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM AND THE RESTRICTION OF SECURITY IMPROVEMENT PRIORITIES.

   Inserted: (a) Public Hearings.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall conduct public hearings on the administration of the security assistance grant program under section 1406 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135). The Assistant Secretary shall--

   Inserted: (1) solicit information and input from the 5 urban areas that receive the largest amount of grant funds under such section, including recipients providing mass transportation and passenger rail services; and

   Inserted: (2) solicit feedback from such recipients on whether current allowable uses of grant funds under the regulations or guidance implementing the grant program are sufficient to address security improvement priorities identified by transit agencies.

   Inserted: (b) Report to Congress.--The Assistant Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations and Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the findings of the public hearings conducted under paragraph (1). The report shall include--

   Inserted: (1) the Assistant Secretary's determinations with respect to the extent to which security improvement priorities identified by transit agencies are not met by the regulations or guidance implementing the grant program; and

   Inserted: (2) how such regulations or guidance should be changed to accommodate such priorities, or the Assistant Secretary's justification for not addressing such priorities with the grant program.

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   At the end of title III of the bill, insert the following:

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