In an unusual rebuke of his hometown’s local elected officials, a senator from Boston wants to strip cities and towns of authority over some grants designed to support public health and safety.

Sen. Nick Collins, a Democrat, filed legislation with Republican Sen. Ryan Fattman of Sutton that would give the Legislature and governor — not a local board — the ability to accept funding from the federal government or charitable organizations “meant to aid the public health and safety of the commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof.” In those cases, the bill says, “no approval from the intended grant recipient shall be necessary.”

During remarks at Monday’s Senate session, Collins said he was responding to the Boston City Council, which last week blocked a $13.3 million US Department of Homeland Security grant that would fund anti-terrorism work in the metropolitan region. The Council voted 6-6, falling one vote short of the threshold needed to accept the federal funds.

“That just doesn’t affect the people of Boston— this grant was to support other municipalities, including Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Quincy, Revere, Somerville, and Winthrop,” Collins said. “Many communities across this region over the weekend had to shut down synagogues because of bomb threats, the rise of anti-semitism. We were a launching pad for 9/11 here in Boston and we all remember too well the pain of the marathon bombings in 2013.”

“This bill in front of us that we would like to move swiftly would no longer allow for such delay or blocking,” he added. “This Legislature has had to reauthorize funds time and again for the City Council in Boston, [which] has thwarted resources for those purposes.”

The Senate referred the bill to the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight, which Collins co-chairs, for further review. Fattman mentioned during Monday’s session that he cosponsored the bill, and no other senators spoke about it from the chamber floor.

Mayor Wu filed an order on Dec. 4 authorizing the city to accept the funding, writing that it would fund “planning, exercises, trainings, and operational needs, that will help prevent, respond to and recover from threats or acts of terrorism, including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive incidents.”

City Councillors Ricardo Arroyo, Liz Breadon, Kendra Lara, Ruthzee Louijeune, Julia Mejia, and Brian Worrell voted against the order, according to meeting minutes. Councillors Frank Baker, Gabriela Coletta, Sharon Durkan, Michael Flaherty and Erin Murphy voted in favor, as did Council President Ed Flynn. Councillor Tania Fernandes Anderson was absent and did not cast a vote.

Louijeune said during the council’s proceedings last week that she wanted to see more discussions take place about the available federal grant funding. “I know that the decision is not determined completely by the Office of Emergency Management, but rather by [Jurisdictional Points of Contact], representatives from each of the nine cities and towns that constitute the Metro Boston Homeland Security Region. Boston as the lead city has significant influence on the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and how these grant applications develop,” she said. “All of this is to say we need more community conversations on both of these grants.”

No other councillors spoke in opposition to the anti-terrorism grant funding before casting their votes against it.

Louijeune and four of her colleagues also voted against accepting a smaller $175,000 federal grant to fund police data analysts and community engagement work. The council accepted that grant on a 7-5 vote. 

Breadon told the Boston Herald that she opposed the measure because she wants more information on how the funds could respond to natural disasters that have struck the state in recent months.