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2+Union Calendar No. 95
13 118THCONGRESS
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35 STSESSION H. R. 4367
4-AN ACT
6+[Report No. 118–123]
7+Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the
8+fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
9+IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10+JUNE27, 2023
11+Mr. J
12+OYCEof Ohio from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the fol-
13+lowing bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House
14+on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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18+A BILL
519 Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Se-
620 curity for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024,
721 and for other purposes.
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825 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
9-tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 2
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11-That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 1
12-money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 2
13-Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year end-3
14-ing September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, namely: 4
15-TITLE I 5
16-DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT, INTEL-6
17-LIGENCE, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, AND 7
18-OVERSIGHT 8
26+tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
27+That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
28+money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4
29+Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year end-5
30+ing September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, namely: 6
31+TITLE I 7
32+DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT, INTEL-8
33+LIGENCE, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, AND 9
34+OVERSIGHT 10
1935 O
20-FFICE OF THESECRETARY ANDEXECUTIVE 9
36+FFICE OF THESECRETARY ANDEXECUTIVE 11
2137 M
22-ANAGEMENT 10
23-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 11
24-For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary 12
25-and for executive management for operations and support, 13
26-$279,606,000 (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 14
27-$3,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by 15
28-$3,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 16
29-$1,000,000) (reduced by $27,500,000) (reduced by 17
30-$39,860,000); of which $5,000,000 shall remain available 18
31-until September 30, 2025: Provided, That $5,000,000 19
32-shall be withheld from obligation until the Secretary sub-20
33-mits, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 21
34-of Representatives and the Senate, responses to all ques-22
35-tions for the record for each hearing on the fiscal year 23
36-2025 budget submission for the Department of Homeland 24
37-Security held by such Committees prior to July 1: Pro-25 3
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39-vided further, That $25,000,000 (increased by 1
40-$10,000,000) shall be withheld from obligation until the 2
41-Secretary submits the reports required by subsection (g) 3
42-of section 1092 of the National Defense Authorization Act 4
43-for Fiscal Year 2017 (6 U.S.C. 223) and subsection (b) 5
44-of section 386 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Im-6
45-migrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1368). 7
38+ANAGEMENT 12
39+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 13
40+For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary 14
41+and for executive management for operations and support, 15
42+$279,606,000; of which $5,000,000 shall remain available 16
43+until September 30, 2025: Provided, That $5,000,000 17
44+shall be withheld from obligation until the Secretary sub-18
45+mits, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 19
46+of Representatives and the Senate, responses to all ques-20
47+tions for the record for each hearing on the fiscal year 21
48+2025 budget submission for the Department of Homeland 22
49+Security held by such Committees prior to July 1: Pro-23
50+vided further, That $25,000,000 shall be withheld from ob-24
51+ligation until the Secretary submits the reports required 25
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55+by subsection (g) of section 1092 of the National Defense 1
56+Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (6 U.S.C. 223) 2
57+and subsection (b) of section 386 of the Illegal Immigra-3
58+tion Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 4
59+(8 U.S.C. 1368). 5
4660 M
47-ANAGEMENTDIRECTORATE 8
48-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 9
49-For necessary expenses of the Management Direc-10
50-torate for operations and support, $1,695,326,000 (re-11
51-duced by $5,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (in-12
52-creased by $10,000,000): Provided, That not to exceed 13
53-$2,000 shall be for official reception and representation 14
54-expenses. 15
55-PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 16
56-For necessary expenses of the Management Direc-17
57-torate for procurement, construction, and improvements, 18
58-$127,758,000, to remain available until September 30, 19
59-2026. 20
60-FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE 21
61-The revenues and collections of security fees credited 22
62-to this account shall be available until expended for nec-23
63-essary expenses related to the protection of federally 24 4
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65-owned and leased buildings and for the operations of the 1
66-Federal Protective Service. 2
67-I
68-NTELLIGENCE, ANALYSIS, ANDSITUATIONAL 3
61+ANAGEMENTDIRECTORATE 6
62+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 7
63+For necessary expenses of the Management Direc-8
64+torate for operations and support, $1,695,326,000: Pro-9
65+vided, That not to exceed $2,000 shall be for official recep-10
66+tion and representation expenses. 11
67+PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 12
68+For necessary expenses of the Management Direc-13
69+torate for procurement, construction, and improvements, 14
70+$127,758,000, to remain available until September 30, 15
71+2026. 16
72+FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE 17
73+The revenues and collections of security fees credited 18
74+to this account shall be available until expended for nec-19
75+essary expenses related to the protection of federally 20
76+owned and leased buildings and for the operations of the 21
77+Federal Protective Service. 22
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81+INTELLIGENCE, ANALYSIS, ANDSITUATIONAL 1
6982 A
70-WARENESS 4
71-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 5
72-For necessary expenses of the Office of Intelligence 6
73-and Analysis and the Office of Homeland Security Situa-7
74-tional Awareness for operations and support, 8
75-$348,736,000, of which $105,701,000 shall remain avail-9
76-able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-10
77-ceed $3,825 shall be for official reception and representa-11
78-tion expenses and not to exceed $2,000,000 is available 12
79-for facility needs associated with secure space at fusion 13
80-centers, including improvements to buildings. 14
83+WARENESS 2
84+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 3
85+For necessary expenses of the Office of Intelligence 4
86+and Analysis and the Office of Homeland Security Situa-5
87+tional Awareness for operations and support, 6
88+$348,736,000, of which $105,701,000 shall remain avail-7
89+able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-8
90+ceed $3,825 shall be for official reception and representa-9
91+tion expenses and not to exceed $2,000,000 is available 10
92+for facility needs associated with secure space at fusion 11
93+centers, including improvements to buildings. 12
8194 O
82-FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 15
83-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 16
84-For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 17
85-General for operations and support, $228,371,000: Pro-18
86-vided, That not to exceed $300,000 may be used for cer-19
87-tain confidential operational expenses, including the pay-20
88-ment of informants, to be expended at the direction of the 21
89-Inspector General. 22
95+FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 13
96+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 14
97+For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 15
98+General for operations and support, $228,371,000: Pro-16
99+vided, That not to exceed $300,000 may be used for cer-17
100+tain confidential operational expenses, including the pay-18
101+ment of informants, to be expended at the direction of the 19
102+Inspector General. 20
90103 A
91-DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 23
92-S
93-EC. 101. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 24
94-shall submit a report not later than October 15, 2024, 25 5
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96-to the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 1
97-Security listing all grants and contracts awarded by any 2
98-means other than full and open competition during fiscal 3
99-years 2023 or 2024. 4
100-(b) The Inspector General shall review the report re-5
101-quired by subsection (a) to assess departmental compli-6
102-ance with applicable laws and regulations and report the 7
103-results of that review to the Committees on Appropriations 8
104-of the House of Representatives and the Senate not later 9
105-than February 15, 2025. 10
106-S
107-EC. 102. Not later than 30 days after the last day 11
108-of each month, the Chief Financial Officer of the Depart-12
109-ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Commit-13
110-tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 14
111-and the Senate a monthly budget and staffing report that 15
112-includes total obligations of the Department for that 16
113-month and for the fiscal year at the appropriation and 17
114-program, project, and activity levels, by the source year 18
115-of the appropriation. 19
116-S
117-EC. 103. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 20
118-in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall 21
119-notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 22
120-Representatives and the Senate of any proposed transfers 23
121-of funds available under section 9705(g)(4)(B) of title 31, 24
122-United States Code, from the Department of the Treasury 25 6
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124-Forfeiture Fund to any agency within the Department of 1
125-Homeland Security. 2
126-(b) None of the funds identified for such a transfer 3
127-may be obligated until the Committees on Appropriations 4
128-of the House of Representatives and the Senate are noti-5
129-fied of the proposed transfer. 6
130-S
131-EC. 104. All official costs associated with the use 7
132-of Government aircraft by Department of Homeland Secu-8
133-rity personnel to support official travel of the Secretary 9
134-and the Deputy Secretary shall be paid from amounts 10
135-made available for the Office of the Secretary. 11
136-S
137-EC. 105. (a) The Under Secretary for Management 12
138-shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the House 13
139-of Representatives and the Senate not later than 45 days 14
140-after the end of each fiscal quarter on all Level 1 and 15
141-Level 2 acquisition programs on the Master Acquisition 16
142-Oversight list between Acquisition Decision Event and 17
143-Full Operational Capability, including programs that have 18
144-been removed from such list during the preceding quarter. 19
145-(b) For each such program, the briefing described in 20
146-subsection (a) shall include— 21
147-(1) a description of the purpose of the program, 22
148-including the capabilities being acquired and the 23
149-component(s) sponsoring the acquisition; 24 7
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151-(2) the total number of units, as appropriate, to 1
152-be acquired annually until procurement is complete 2
153-under the current acquisition program baseline; 3
154-(3) the Acquisition Review Board status, in-4
155-cluding— 5
156-(A) the current acquisition phase by incre-6
157-ment, as applicable; 7
158-(B) the date of the most recent review; and 8
159-(C) whether the program has been paused 9
160-or is in breach status; 10
161-(4) a comparison between the initial Depart-11
162-ment-approved acquisition program baseline cost, 12
163-schedule, and performance thresholds and objectives 13
164-and the program’s current such thresholds and ob-14
165-jectives, if applicable; 15
166-(5) the lifecycle cost estimate, adjusted for com-16
167-parison to the Future Years Homeland Security 17
168-Program, including— 18
169-(A) the confidence level for the estimate; 19
170-(B) the fiscal years included in the esti-20
171-mate; 21
172-(C) a breakout of the estimate for the 22
173-prior five years, the current year, and the budg-23
174-et year; 24 8
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176-(D) a breakout of the estimate by appro-1
177-priation account or other funding source; and 2
178-(E) a description of and rationale for any 3
179-changes to the estimate as compared to the pre-4
180-viously approved baseline, as applicable, and 5
181-during the prior fiscal year; 6
182-(6) a summary of the findings of any inde-7
183-pendent verification and validation of the items to be 8
184-acquired or an explanation for why no such 9
185-verification and validation has been performed; 10
186-(7) a table displaying the obligation of all pro-11
187-gram funds by prior fiscal year, the estimated obli-12
188-gation of funds for the current fiscal year, and an 13
189-estimate for the planned carryover of funds into the 14
190-subsequent fiscal year; 15
191-(8) a listing of prime contractors and major 16
192-subcontractors; and 17
193-(9) narrative descriptions of risks to cost, 18
194-schedule, or performance that could result in a pro-19
195-gram breach if not successfully mitigated. 20
196-(c) The Under Secretary for Management shall sub-21
197-mit each approved Acquisition Decision Memorandum for 22
198-programs described in this section to the Committees on 23
199-Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 24
200-Senate not later than five business days after the date of 25 9
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202-approval of such memorandum by the Under Secretary for 1
203-Management or the designee of the Under Secretary. 2
204-S
205-EC. 106. (a) None of the funds made available to 3
206-the Department of Homeland Security in this Act or prior 4
207-appropriations Acts may be obligated for any new pilot 5
208-or demonstration unless the component or office carrying 6
209-out such pilot or demonstration has documented the infor-7
210-mation described in subsection (c). 8
211-(b) Prior to the obligation of any such funds made 9
212-available for ‘‘Operations and Support’’ for a new pilot 10
213-or demonstration, the Under Secretary for Management 11
214-shall provide a report to the Committees on Appropria-12
215-tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate on 13
216-the information described in subsection (c). 14
217-(c) The information required under subsections (a) 15
218-and (b) for a pilot or demonstration shall include the fol-16
219-lowing— 17
220-(1) documented objectives that are well-defined 18
221-and measurable; 19
222-(2) an assessment methodology that details— 20
223-(A) the type and source of assessment 21
224-data; 22
225-(B) the methods for, and frequency of, col-23
226-lecting such data; and 24
227-(C) how such data will be analyzed; and 25 10
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229-(3) an implementation plan, including mile-1
230-stones, cost estimates, and implementation sched-2
231-ules, including a projected end date. 3
232-(d) Not later than 90 days after the date of comple-4
233-tion of a pilot or demonstration described in subsection 5
234-(e) the Under Secretary for Management shall provide a 6
235-report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 7
236-of Representatives and the Senate detailing lessons 8
237-learned, actual costs, any planned expansion or continu-9
238-ation of the pilot or demonstration, and any planned tran-10
239-sition of such pilot or demonstration into an enduring pro-11
240-gram or operation. 12
241-(e) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or dem-13
242-onstration program is a study, demonstration, experi-14
243-mental program, or trial that— 15
244-(1) is a small-scale, short-term experiment con-16
245-ducted in order to evaluate feasibility, duration, 17
246-costs, or adverse events, and improve upon the de-18
247-sign of an effort prior to implementation of a larger 19
248-scale effort; and 20
249-(2) uses more than 10 full-time equivalents or 21
250-obligates, or proposes to obligate, $5,000,000 or 22
251-more, but does not include congressionally directed 23
252-programs or enhancements and does not include pro-24 11
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254-grams that were in operation as of December 29, 1
255-2022. 2
256-(f) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or dem-3
257-onstration does not include any testing, evaluation, or ini-4
258-tial deployment phase executed under a procurement con-5
259-tract for the acquisition of information technology services 6
260-or systems, or any pilot or demonstration carried out by 7
261-a non-federal recipient under any financial assistance 8
262-agreement funded by the Department. 9 12
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104+DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 21
105+S
106+EC. 101. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 22
107+shall submit a report not later than October 15, 2024, 23
108+to the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 24
109+Security listing all grants and contracts awarded by any 25
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113+means other than full and open competition during fiscal 1
114+years 2023 or 2024. 2
115+(b) The Inspector General shall review the report re-3
116+quired by subsection (a) to assess departmental compli-4
117+ance with applicable laws and regulations and report the 5
118+results of that review to the Committees on Appropriations 6
119+of the House of Representatives and the Senate not later 7
120+than February 15, 2025. 8
121+S
122+EC. 102. Not later than 30 days after the last day 9
123+of each month, the Chief Financial Officer of the Depart-10
124+ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Commit-11
125+tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 12
126+and the Senate a monthly budget and staffing report that 13
127+includes total obligations of the Department for that 14
128+month and for the fiscal year at the appropriation and 15
129+program, project, and activity levels, by the source year 16
130+of the appropriation. 17
131+S
132+EC. 103. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 18
133+in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall 19
134+notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 20
135+Representatives and the Senate of any proposed transfers 21
136+of funds available under section 9705(g)(4)(B) of title 31, 22
137+United States Code, from the Department of the Treasury 23
138+Forfeiture Fund to any agency within the Department of 24
139+Homeland Security. 25
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143+(b) None of the funds identified for such a transfer 1
144+may be obligated until the Committees on Appropriations 2
145+of the House of Representatives and the Senate are noti-3
146+fied of the proposed transfer. 4
147+S
148+EC. 104. All official costs associated with the use 5
149+of Government aircraft by Department of Homeland Secu-6
150+rity personnel to support official travel of the Secretary 7
151+and the Deputy Secretary shall be paid from amounts 8
152+made available for the Office of the Secretary. 9
153+S
154+EC. 105. (a) The Under Secretary for Management 10
155+shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the House 11
156+of Representatives and the Senate not later than 45 days 12
157+after the end of each fiscal quarter on all Level 1 and 13
158+Level 2 acquisition programs on the Master Acquisition 14
159+Oversight list between Acquisition Decision Event and 15
160+Full Operational Capability, including programs that have 16
161+been removed from such list during the preceding quarter. 17
162+(b) For each such program, the briefing described in 18
163+subsection (a) shall include— 19
164+(1) a description of the purpose of the program, 20
165+including the capabilities being acquired and the 21
166+component(s) sponsoring the acquisition; 22
167+(2) the total number of units, as appropriate, to 23
168+be acquired annually until procurement is complete 24
169+under the current acquisition program baseline; 25
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173+(3) the Acquisition Review Board status, in-1
174+cluding— 2
175+(A) the current acquisition phase by incre-3
176+ment, as applicable; 4
177+(B) the date of the most recent review; and 5
178+(C) whether the program has been paused 6
179+or is in breach status; 7
180+(4) a comparison between the initial Depart-8
181+ment-approved acquisition program baseline cost, 9
182+schedule, and performance thresholds and objectives 10
183+and the program’s current such thresholds and ob-11
184+jectives, if applicable; 12
185+(5) the lifecycle cost estimate, adjusted for com-13
186+parison to the Future Years Homeland Security 14
187+Program, including— 15
188+(A) the confidence level for the estimate; 16
189+(B) the fiscal years included in the esti-17
190+mate; 18
191+(C) a breakout of the estimate for the 19
192+prior five years, the current year, and the budg-20
193+et year; 21
194+(D) a breakout of the estimate by appro-22
195+priation account or other funding source; and 23
196+(E) a description of and rationale for any 24
197+changes to the estimate as compared to the pre-25
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201+viously approved baseline, as applicable, and 1
202+during the prior fiscal year; 2
203+(6) a summary of the findings of any inde-3
204+pendent verification and validation of the items to be 4
205+acquired or an explanation for why no such 5
206+verification and validation has been performed; 6
207+(7) a table displaying the obligation of all pro-7
208+gram funds by prior fiscal year, the estimated obli-8
209+gation of funds for the current fiscal year, and an 9
210+estimate for the planned carryover of funds into the 10
211+subsequent fiscal year; 11
212+(8) a listing of prime contractors and major 12
213+subcontractors; and 13
214+(9) narrative descriptions of risks to cost, 14
215+schedule, or performance that could result in a pro-15
216+gram breach if not successfully mitigated. 16
217+(c) The Under Secretary for Management shall sub-17
218+mit each approved Acquisition Decision Memorandum for 18
219+programs described in this section to the Committees on 19
220+Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 20
221+Senate not later than five business days after the date of 21
222+approval of such memorandum by the Under Secretary for 22
223+Management or the designee of the Under Secretary. 23
224+S
225+EC. 106. (a) None of the funds made available to 24
226+the Department of Homeland Security in this Act or prior 25
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230+appropriations Acts may be obligated for any new pilot 1
231+or demonstration unless the component or office carrying 2
232+out such pilot or demonstration has documented the infor-3
233+mation described in subsection (c). 4
234+(b) Prior to the obligation of any such funds made 5
235+available for ‘‘Operations and Support’’ for a new pilot 6
236+or demonstration, the Under Secretary for Management 7
237+shall provide a report to the Committees on Appropria-8
238+tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate on 9
239+the information described in subsection (c). 10
240+(c) The information required under subsections (a) 11
241+and (b) for a pilot or demonstration shall include the fol-12
242+lowing— 13
243+(1) documented objectives that are well-defined 14
244+and measurable; 15
245+(2) an assessment methodology that details— 16
246+(A) the type and source of assessment 17
247+data; 18
248+(B) the methods for, and frequency of, col-19
249+lecting such data; and 20
250+(C) how such data will be analyzed; and 21
251+(3) an implementation plan, including mile-22
252+stones, cost estimates, and implementation sched-23
253+ules, including a projected end date. 24
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257+(d) Not later than 90 days after the date of comple-1
258+tion of a pilot or demonstration described in subsection 2
259+(e) the Under Secretary for Management shall provide a 3
260+report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 4
261+of Representatives and the Senate detailing lessons 5
262+learned, actual costs, any planned expansion or continu-6
263+ation of the pilot or demonstration, and any planned tran-7
264+sition of such pilot or demonstration into an enduring pro-8
265+gram or operation. 9
266+(e) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or dem-10
267+onstration program is a study, demonstration, experi-11
268+mental program, or trial that— 12
269+(1) is a small-scale, short-term experiment con-13
270+ducted in order to evaluate feasibility, duration, 14
271+costs, or adverse events, and improve upon the de-15
272+sign of an effort prior to implementation of a larger 16
273+scale effort; and 17
274+(2) uses more than 10 full-time equivalents or 18
275+obligates, or proposes to obligate, $5,000,000 or 19
276+more, but does not include congressionally directed 20
277+programs or enhancements and does not include pro-21
278+grams that were in operation as of December 29, 22
279+2022. 23
280+(f) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or dem-24
281+onstration does not include any testing, evaluation, or ini-25
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285+tial deployment phase executed under a procurement con-1
286+tract for the acquisition of information technology services 2
287+or systems, or any pilot or demonstration carried out by 3
288+a non-federal recipient under any financial assistance 4
289+agreement funded by the Department. 5
290+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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292+•HR 4367 RH
264293 TITLE II 1
265294 SECURITY, ENFORCEMENT, AND 2
266295 INVESTIGATIONS 3
267296 U.S. C
268297 USTOMS ANDBORDERPROTECTION 4
269298 OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 5
270299 For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border 6
271300 Protection for operations and support, including the trans-7
272301 portation of unaccompanied alien minors; the provision of 8
273302 air and marine support to Federal, State, local, and inter-9
274303 national agencies in the enforcement or administration of 10
275304 laws enforced by the Department of Homeland Security; 11
276305 at the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, 12
277306 the provision of such support to Federal, State, and local 13
278307 agencies in other law enforcement and emergency humani-14
279308 tarian efforts; the purchase and lease of up to 7,500 15
280309 (6,500 for replacement only) police-type vehicles; the pur-16
281310 chase, maintenance, or operation of marine vessels, air-17
282311 craft, and unmanned aerial systems; and contracting with 18
283-individuals for personal services abroad; $16,241,678,000 19
284-(increased by $3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (re-20
285-duced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced 21
286-by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 22
287-$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by $1) 23
288-(reduced by $1) (reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by 24
289-$10,000,000); of which $3,274,000 shall be derived from 25 13
290-•HR 4367 EH
291-the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative 1
292-expenses related to the collection of the Harbor Mainte-2
293-nance Fee pursuant to section 9505(c)(3) of the Internal 3
294-Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9505(c)(3)) and not-4
295-withstanding section 1511(e)(1) of the Homeland Security 5
296-Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 551(e)(1)); of which $700,000,000 6
297-shall be available until September 30, 2025; and of which 7
298-such sums as become available in the Customs User Fee 8
299-Account, except sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the 9
300-Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 10
301-(19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that account: 11
302-Provided, That not to exceed $34,425 shall be for official 12
303-reception and representation expenses: Provided further, 13
304-That not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for pay-14
305-ment for rental space in connection with preclearance op-15
306-erations: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 16
307-shall be for awards of compensation to informants, to be 17
308-accounted for solely under the certificate of the Secretary 18
309-of Homeland Security. 19
310-PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 20
311-For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border 21
312-Protection for procurement, construction, and improve-22
313-ments, including procurement of physical barriers, marine 23
314-vessels, aircraft, and unmanned aerial systems, 24
315-$2,965,653,000 (reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by 25 14
316-•HR 4367 EH
317-$10,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 1
318-$1,000,000), of which $741,885,000 shall remain avail-2
319-able until September 30, 2026; and of which 3
320-$2,223,768,000 shall remain available until September 30, 4
321-2028. 5
322-U.S. I
323-MMIGRATION AND CUSTOMSENFORCEMENT 6
324-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 7
325-For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and 8
326-Customs Enforcement for operations and support, includ-9
327-ing the purchase and lease of up to 3,790 (2,350 for re-10
328-placement only) police-type vehicles; overseas vetted units, 11
329-including stipends for members of such units; and mainte-12
330-nance, minor construction, and minor leasehold improve-13
331-ments at owned and leased facilities; $9,758,297,000 (in-14
332-creased by $24,000,000) (increased by $34,860,000); of 15
333-which not less than $6,000,000 shall remain available 16
334-until expended for efforts to enforce laws against forced 17
335-child labor; of which $46,696,000 shall remain available 18
336-until September 30, 2025; of which not less than 19
337-$2,000,000 is for paid apprenticeships for participants in 20
338-the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative Child-Rescue 21
339-Corps; of which not less than $15,000,000 shall be avail-22
340-able for investigation of intellectual property rights viola-23
341-tions, including operation of the National Intellectual 24
342-Property Rights Coordination Center; and of which not 25 15
343-•HR 4367 EH
344-less than $5,310,547,000 shall be for enforcement, deten-1
345-tion, and removal operations, including transportation of 2
346-unaccompanied alien minors: Provided, That not to exceed 3
347-$11,475 shall be for official reception and representation 4
348-expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed 5
349-$10,000,000 shall be available until expended for con-6
350-ducting special operations under section 3131 of the Cus-7
351-toms Enforcement Act of 1986 (19 U.S.C. 2081): Pro-8
352-vided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be for 9
353-awards of compensation to informants, to be accounted 10
354-for solely under the certificate of the Secretary of Home-11
355-land Security: Provided further, That not to exceed 12
356-$11,216,000 shall be available to fund or reimburse other 13
357-Federal agencies for the costs associated with the care, 14
358-maintenance, and repatriation of smuggled aliens unlaw-15
359-fully present in the United States: Provided further, That 16
360-not less than $2,000,000 shall be for entering into new 17
361-agreements for the delegation of law enforcement author-18
362-ity authorized under section 287(g) of the Immigration 19
363-and Nationality Act: Provided further, That funding made 20
364-available under this heading shall maintain a level of not 21
365-less than 41,500 detention beds through September 30, 22
366-2024. 23 16
367-•HR 4367 EH
312+individuals for personal services abroad; $16,241,678,000; 19
313+of which $3,274,000 shall be derived from the Harbor 20
314+Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses re-21
315+lated to the collection of the Harbor Maintenance Fee pur-22
316+suant to section 9505(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code 23
317+of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9505(c)(3)) and notwithstanding sec-24
318+tion 1511(e)(1) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 25
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321+•HR 4367 RH
322+U.S.C. 551(e)(1)); of which $700,000,000 shall be avail-1
323+able until September 30, 2025; and of which such sums 2
324+as become available in the Customs User Fee Account, ex-3
325+cept sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consoli-4
326+dated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 5
327+U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that account: Pro-6
328+vided, That not to exceed $34,425 shall be for official re-7
329+ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 8
330+That not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for pay-9
331+ment for rental space in connection with preclearance op-10
332+erations: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 11
333+shall be for awards of compensation to informants, to be 12
334+accounted for solely under the certificate of the Secretary 13
335+of Homeland Security. 14
336+PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 15
337+For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border 16
338+Protection for procurement, construction, and improve-17
339+ments, including procurement of physical barriers, marine 18
340+vessels, aircraft, and unmanned aerial systems, 19
341+$2,965,653,000, of which $741,885,000 shall remain 20
342+available until September 30, 2026; and of which 21
343+$2,223,768,000 shall remain available until September 30, 22
344+2028. 23
345+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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347+•HR 4367 RH
348+U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMSENFORCEMENT 1
349+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 2
350+For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and 3
351+Customs Enforcement for operations and support, includ-4
352+ing the purchase and lease of up to 3,790 (2,350 for re-5
353+placement only) police-type vehicles; overseas vetted units, 6
354+including stipends for members of such units; and mainte-7
355+nance, minor construction, and minor leasehold improve-8
356+ments at owned and leased facilities; $9,758,297,000; of 9
357+which not less than $6,000,000 shall remain available 10
358+until expended for efforts to enforce laws against forced 11
359+child labor; of which $46,696,000 shall remain available 12
360+until September 30, 2025; of which not less than 13
361+$2,000,000 is for paid apprenticeships for participants in 14
362+the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative Child-Rescue 15
363+Corps; of which not less than $15,000,000 shall be avail-16
364+able for investigation of intellectual property rights viola-17
365+tions, including operation of the National Intellectual 18
366+Property Rights Coordination Center; and of which not 19
367+less than $5,310,547,000 shall be for enforcement, deten-20
368+tion, and removal operations, including transportation of 21
369+unaccompanied alien minors: Provided, That not to exceed 22
370+$11,475 shall be for official reception and representation 23
371+expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed 24
372+$10,000,000 shall be available until expended for con-25
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375+•HR 4367 RH
376+ducting special operations under section 3131 of the Cus-1
377+toms Enforcement Act of 1986 (19 U.S.C. 2081): Pro-2
378+vided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be for 3
379+awards of compensation to informants, to be accounted 4
380+for solely under the certificate of the Secretary of Home-5
381+land Security: Provided further, That not to exceed 6
382+$11,216,000 shall be available to fund or reimburse other 7
383+Federal agencies for the costs associated with the care, 8
384+maintenance, and repatriation of smuggled aliens unlaw-9
385+fully present in the United States: Provided further, That 10
386+not less than $2,000,000 shall be for entering into new 11
387+agreements for the delegation of law enforcement author-12
388+ity authorized under section 287(g) of the Immigration 13
389+and Nationality Act: Provided further, That funding made 14
390+available under this heading shall maintain a level of not 15
391+less than 41,500 detention beds through September 30, 16
392+2024. 17
393+PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 18
394+For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and 19
395+Customs Enforcement for procurement, construction, and 20
396+improvements, $50,520,000, of which $35,420,000 shall 21
397+remain available until September 30, 2026, and of which 22
398+$15,100,000 shall remain available until September 30, 23
399+2028. 24
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402+•HR 4367 RH
403+TRANSPORTATIONSECURITYADMINISTRATION 1
404+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 2
405+For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-3
406+rity Administration for operations and support, 4
407+$10,118,131,000, of which $600,000,000 shall remain 5
408+available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not 6
409+to exceed $7,650 shall be for official reception and rep-7
410+resentation expenses: Provided further, That security serv-8
411+ice fees authorized under section 44940 of title 49, United 9
412+States Code, shall be credited to this appropriation as off-10
413+setting collections and shall be available only for aviation 11
414+security: Provided further, That the sum appropriated 12
415+under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced 13
416+on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting collections 14
417+are received during fiscal year 2024 so as to result in a 15
418+final fiscal year appropriation from the general fund esti-16
419+mated at not more than $7,498,131,000. 17
420+PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 18
421+For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-19
422+rity Administration for procurement, construction, and 20
423+improvements, $130,340,000, to remain available until 21
424+September 30, 2026. 22
425+RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 23
426+For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-24
427+rity Administration for research and development, 25
428+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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430+•HR 4367 RH
431+$33,532,000, to remain available until September 30, 1
432+2025. 2
433+C
434+OASTGUARD 3
435+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 4
436+For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for oper-5
437+ations and support including the Coast Guard Reserve; 6
438+purchase or lease of not to exceed 25 passenger motor ve-7
439+hicles, which shall be for replacement only; purchase or 8
440+lease of small boats for contingent and emergent require-9
441+ments (at a unit cost of not more than $700,000) and 10
442+repairs and service-life replacements, not to exceed a total 11
443+of $31,000,000; purchase, lease, or improvements of boats 12
444+necessary for overseas deployments and activities; pay-13
445+ments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377 (42 14
446+U.S.C. 402 note; 96 Stat. 1920); and recreation and wel-15
447+fare; $10,222,488,000, of which $530,000,000 shall be for 16
448+defense-related activities; of which $24,500,000 shall be 17
449+derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry 18
450+out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution 19
451+Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)); of which 20
452+$20,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 21
453+2026; of which $24,717,000 shall remain available until 22
454+September 30, 2028, for environmental compliance and 23
455+restoration; and of which $100,000,000 shall remain avail-24
456+able until September 30, 2025, which shall only be avail-25
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459+•HR 4367 RH
460+able for vessel depot level maintenance: Provided, That not 1
461+to exceed $23,000 shall be for official reception and rep-2
462+resentation expenses. 3
463+PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 4
464+For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for pro-5
465+curement, construction, and improvements, including aids 6
466+to navigation, shore facilities (including facilities at De-7
467+partment of Defense installations used by the Coast 8
468+Guard), and vessels and aircraft, including equipment re-9
469+lated thereto, $1,981,194,000, to remain available until 10
470+September 30, 2028; of which $20,000,000 shall be de-11
471+rived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out 12
472+the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act 13
473+of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)). 14
474+RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 15
475+For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for re-16
476+search and development; and for maintenance, rehabilita-17
477+tion, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment; 18
478+$7,476,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, 19
479+of which $500,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-20
480+ability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 21
481+1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 22
482+2712(a)(5)): Provided, That there may be credited to and 23
483+used for the purposes of this appropriation funds received 24
484+from State and local governments, other public authori-25
485+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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487+•HR 4367 RH
488+ties, private sources, and foreign countries for expenses 1
489+incurred for research, development, testing, and evalua-2
490+tion. 3
491+RETIRED PAY 4
492+For retired pay, including the payment of obligations 5
493+otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this pur-6
494+pose, payments under the Retired Serviceman’s Family 7
495+Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, payment for ca-8
496+reer status bonuses, payment of continuation pay under 9
497+section 356 of title 37, United States Code, concurrent 10
498+receipts, combat-related special compensation, and pay-11
499+ments for medical care of retired personnel and their de-12
500+pendents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, 13
501+$1,147,244,000, to remain available until expended. 14
502+U
503+NITEDSTATESSECRETSERVICE 15
504+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 16
505+For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 17
506+Service for operations and support, including purchase of 18
507+not to exceed 652 vehicles for police-type use; hire of pas-19
508+senger motor vehicles; purchase of motorcycles made in 20
509+the United States; hire of aircraft; rental of buildings in 21
510+the District of Columbia; fencing, lighting, guard booths, 22
511+and other facilities on private or other property not in 23
512+Government ownership or control, as may be necessary to 24
513+perform protective functions; conduct of and participation 25
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515+kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 21
516+•HR 4367 RH
517+in firearms matches; presentation of awards; conduct of 1
518+behavioral research in support of protective intelligence 2
519+and operations; payment in advance for commercial ac-3
520+commodations as may be necessary to perform protective 4
521+functions; and payment, without regard to section 5702 5
522+of title 5, United States Code, of subsistence expenses of 6
523+employees who are on protective missions, whether at or 7
524+away from their duty stations; $2,949,463,000; of which 8
525+$114,599,000 shall remain available until September 30, 9
526+2025, and of which $6,000,000 shall be for a grant for 10
527+activities related to investigations of missing and exploited 11
528+children; and of which up to $30,000,000 may be for cal-12
529+endar year 2023 premium pay in excess of the annual 13
530+equivalent of the limitation on the rate of pay contained 14
531+in section 5547(a) of title 5, United States Code, pursuant 15
532+to section 2 of the Overtime Pay for Protective Services 16
533+Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as last amended by 17
534+Public Law 116–269: Provided, That not to exceed 18
535+$19,125 shall be for official reception and representation 19
536+expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 20
537+shall be to provide technical assistance and equipment to 21
538+foreign law enforcement organizations in criminal inves-22
539+tigations within the jurisdiction of the United States Se-23
540+cret Service. 24
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543+•HR 4367 RH
368544 PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 1
369-For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and 2
370-Customs Enforcement for procurement, construction, and 3
371-improvements, $50,520,000, of which $35,420,000 shall 4
372-remain available until September 30, 2026, and of which 5
373-$15,100,000 shall remain available until September 30, 6
374-2028. 7
375-T
376-RANSPORTATIONSECURITYADMINISTRATION 8
377-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 9
378-For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-10
379-rity Administration for operations and support, 11
380-$10,118,131,000, of which $600,000,000 shall remain 12
381-available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not 13
382-to exceed $7,650 shall be for official reception and rep-14
383-resentation expenses: Provided further, That security serv-15
384-ice fees authorized under section 44940 of title 49, United 16
385-States Code, shall be credited to this appropriation as off-17
386-setting collections and shall be available only for aviation 18
387-security: Provided further, That the sum appropriated 19
388-under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced 20
389-on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting collections 21
390-are received during fiscal year 2024 so as to result in a 22
391-final fiscal year appropriation from the general fund esti-23
392-mated at not more than $7,498,131,000. 24 17
393-•HR 4367 EH
394-PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 1
395-For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-2
396-rity Administration for procurement, construction, and 3
397-improvements, $130,340,000, to remain available until 4
398-September 30, 2026. 5
545+For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 2
546+Service for procurement, construction, and improvements, 3
547+$61,098,000, to remain available until September 30, 4
548+2026. 5
399549 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 6
400-For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-7
401-rity Administration for research and development, 8
402-$33,532,000, to remain available until September 30, 9
403-2025. 10
404-C
405-OASTGUARD 11
406-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 12
407-For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for oper-13
408-ations and support including the Coast Guard Reserve; 14
409-purchase or lease of not to exceed 25 passenger motor ve-15
410-hicles, which shall be for replacement only; purchase or 16
411-lease of small boats for contingent and emergent require-17
412-ments (at a unit cost of not more than $700,000) and 18
413-repairs and service-life replacements, not to exceed a total 19
414-of $31,000,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 20
415-$1,000,000); purchase, lease, or improvements of boats 21
416-necessary for overseas deployments and activities; pay-22
417-ments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377 (42 23
418-U.S.C. 402 note; 96 Stat. 1920); and recreation and wel-24
419-fare; $10,222,488,000, of which $530,000,000 shall be for 25 18
420-•HR 4367 EH
421-defense-related activities; of which $24,500,000 shall be 1
422-derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry 2
423-out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution 3
424-Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)); of which 4
425-$20,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 5
426-2026; of which $24,717,000 shall remain available until 6
427-September 30, 2028, for environmental compliance and 7
428-restoration; and of which $100,000,000 shall remain avail-8
429-able until September 30, 2025, which shall only be avail-9
430-able for vessel depot level maintenance: Provided, That not 10
431-to exceed $23,000 shall be for official reception and rep-11
432-resentation expenses. 12
433-PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 13
434-For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for pro-14
435-curement, construction, and improvements, including aids 15
436-to navigation, shore facilities (including facilities at De-16
437-partment of Defense installations used by the Coast 17
438-Guard), and vessels and aircraft, including equipment re-18
439-lated thereto, $1,981,194,000, to remain available until 19
440-September 30, 2028; of which $20,000,000 shall be de-20
441-rived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out 21
442-the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act 22
443-of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)). 23 19
444-•HR 4367 EH
445-RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 1
446-For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for re-2
447-search and development; and for maintenance, rehabilita-3
448-tion, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment; 4
449-$7,476,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, 5
450-of which $500,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-6
451-ability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 7
452-1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 8
453-2712(a)(5)): Provided, That there may be credited to and 9
454-used for the purposes of this appropriation funds received 10
455-from State and local governments, other public authori-11
456-ties, private sources, and foreign countries for expenses 12
457-incurred for research, development, testing, and evalua-13
458-tion. 14
459-RETIRED PAY 15
460-For retired pay, including the payment of obligations 16
461-otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this pur-17
462-pose, payments under the Retired Serviceman’s Family 18
463-Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, payment for ca-19
464-reer status bonuses, payment of continuation pay under 20
465-section 356 of title 37, United States Code, concurrent 21
466-receipts, combat-related special compensation, and pay-22
467-ments for medical care of retired personnel and their de-23
468-pendents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, 24
469-$1,147,244,000, to remain available until expended. 25 20
470-•HR 4367 EH
471-UNITEDSTATESSECRETSERVICE 1
472-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 2
473-For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 3
474-Service for operations and support, including purchase of 4
475-not to exceed 652 vehicles for police-type use; hire of pas-5
476-senger motor vehicles; purchase of motorcycles made in 6
477-the United States; hire of aircraft; rental of buildings in 7
478-the District of Columbia; fencing, lighting, guard booths, 8
479-and other facilities on private or other property not in 9
480-Government ownership or control, as may be necessary to 10
481-perform protective functions; conduct of and participation 11
482-in firearms matches; presentation of awards; conduct of 12
483-behavioral research in support of protective intelligence 13
484-and operations; payment in advance for commercial ac-14
485-commodations as may be necessary to perform protective 15
486-functions; and payment, without regard to section 5702 16
487-of title 5, United States Code, of subsistence expenses of 17
488-employees who are on protective missions, whether at or 18
489-away from their duty stations; $2,949,463,000 (increased 19
490-by $2,000,000); of which $114,599,000 shall remain avail-20
491-able until September 30, 2025, and of which $6,000,000 21
492-(increased by $2,000,000) shall be for a grant for activi-22
493-ties related to investigations of missing and exploited chil-23
494-dren; and of which up to $30,000,000 may be for calendar 24
495-year 2023 premium pay in excess of the annual equivalent 25 21
496-•HR 4367 EH
497-of the limitation on the rate of pay contained in section 1
498-5547(a) of title 5, United States Code, pursuant to section 2
499-2 of the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2016 3
500-(5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as last amended by Public Law 4
501-116–269: Provided, That not to exceed $19,125 shall be 5
502-for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-6
503-vided further, That not to exceed $100,000 shall be to pro-7
504-vide technical assistance and equipment to foreign law en-8
505-forcement organizations in criminal investigations within 9
506-the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service. 10
507-PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 11
508-For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 12
509-Service for procurement, construction, and improvements, 13
510-$61,098,000, to remain available until September 30, 14
511-2026. 15
512-RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 16
513-For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 17
514-Service for research and development, $4,217,000, to re-18
515-main available until September 30, 2025. 19
550+For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 7
551+Service for research and development, $4,217,000, to re-8
552+main available until September 30, 2025. 9
516553 A
517-DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 20
518-S
519-EC. 201. Section 201 of the Department of Home-21
520-land Security Appropriations Act, 2018 (division F of 22
521-Public Law 115–141), related to overtime compensation 23
522-limitations, shall apply with respect to funds made avail-24
523-able in this Act in the same manner as such section ap-25 22
524-•HR 4367 EH
525-plied to funds made available in that Act, except that ‘‘fis-1
526-cal year 2024’’ shall be substituted for ‘‘fiscal year 2018’’. 2
527-S
528-EC. 202. Funding made available under the head-3
529-ings ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations 4
530-and Support’’ and ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-5
531-tion—Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’’ 6
532-shall be available for customs expenses when necessary to 7
533-maintain operations and prevent adverse personnel actions 8
534-in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, in addition 9
535-to funding provided by sections 740 and 1406i of title 48, 10
536-United States Code. 11
537-S
538-EC. 203. As authorized by section 601(b) of the 12
539-United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Im-13
540-plementation Act (Public Law 112–42), fees collected 14
541-from passengers arriving from Canada, Mexico, or an ad-15
542-jacent island pursuant to section 13031(a)(5) of the Con-16
543-solidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 17
544-U.S.C. 58c(a)(5)) shall be available until expended. 18
545-S
546-EC. 204. (a) For an additional amount for ‘‘U.S. 19
547-Customs and Border Protection—Operations and Sup-20
548-port’’, $31,000,000, to remain available until expended, 21
549-to be reduced by amounts collected and credited to this 22
550-appropriation in fiscal year 2024 from amounts authorized 23
551-to be collected by section 286(i) of the Immigration and 24
552-Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(i)), section 10412 of the 25 23
553-•HR 4367 EH
554-Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 1
555-U.S.C. 8311), and section 817 of the Trade Facilitation 2
556-and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (Public Law 114– 3
557-125), or other such authorizing language. 4
558-(b) To the extent that amounts realized from such 5
559-collections exceed $31,000,000, those amounts in excess 6
560-of $31,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation, to 7
561-remain available until expended. 8
562-S
563-EC. 205. None of the funds made available in this 9
564-Act for U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be used 10
565-to prevent an individual not in the business of importing 11
566-a prescription drug (within the meaning of section 801(g) 12
567-of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) from im-13
568-porting a prescription drug from Canada that complies 14
569-with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Provided, 15
570-That this section shall apply only to individuals trans-16
571-porting on their person a personal-use quantity of the pre-17
572-scription drug, not to exceed a 90-day supply: Provided 18
573-further, That the prescription drug may not be— 19
574-(1) a controlled substance, as defined in section 20
575-102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 21
576-802); or 22
577-(2) a biological product, as defined in section 23
578-351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 24
579-262). 25 24
580-•HR 4367 EH
581-SEC. 206. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 1
582-of law, none of the funds provided in this or any other 2
583-Act shall be used to approve a waiver of the navigation 3
584-and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to section 501(b) of 4
585-title 46, United States Code, for the transportation of 5
586-crude oil distributed from and to the Strategic Petroleum 6
587-Reserve until the Secretary of Homeland Security, after 7
588-consultation with the Secretaries of the Departments of 8
589-Energy and Transportation and representatives from the 9
590-United States flag maritime industry, takes adequate 10
591-measures to ensure the use of United States flag vessels. 11
592-(b) The Secretary shall notify the Committees on Ap-12
554+DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 10
555+S
556+EC. 201. Section 201 of the Department of Home-11
557+land Security Appropriations Act, 2018 (division F of 12
558+Public Law 115–141), related to overtime compensation 13
559+limitations, shall apply with respect to funds made avail-14
560+able in this Act in the same manner as such section ap-15
561+plied to funds made available in that Act, except that ‘‘fis-16
562+cal year 2024’’ shall be substituted for ‘‘fiscal year 2018’’. 17
563+S
564+EC. 202. Funding made available under the head-18
565+ings ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations 19
566+and Support’’ and ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-20
567+tion—Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’’ 21
568+shall be available for customs expenses when necessary to 22
569+maintain operations and prevent adverse personnel actions 23
570+in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, in addition 24
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574+to funding provided by sections 740 and 1406i of title 48, 1
575+United States Code. 2
576+S
577+EC. 203. As authorized by section 601(b) of the 3
578+United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Im-4
579+plementation Act (Public Law 112–42), fees collected 5
580+from passengers arriving from Canada, Mexico, or an ad-6
581+jacent island pursuant to section 13031(a)(5) of the Con-7
582+solidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 8
583+U.S.C. 58c(a)(5)) shall be available until expended. 9
584+S
585+EC. 204. (a) For an additional amount for ‘‘U.S. 10
586+Customs and Border Protection—Operations and Sup-11
587+port’’, $31,000,000, to remain available until expended, 12
588+to be reduced by amounts collected and credited to this 13
589+appropriation in fiscal year 2024 from amounts authorized 14
590+to be collected by section 286(i) of the Immigration and 15
591+Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(i)), section 10412 of the 16
592+Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 17
593+U.S.C. 8311), and section 817 of the Trade Facilitation 18
594+and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (Public Law 114– 19
595+125), or other such authorizing language. 20
596+(b) To the extent that amounts realized from such 21
597+collections exceed $31,000,000, those amounts in excess 22
598+of $31,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation, to 23
599+remain available until expended. 24
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603+SEC. 205. None of the funds made available in this 1
604+Act for U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be used 2
605+to prevent an individual not in the business of importing 3
606+a prescription drug (within the meaning of section 801(g) 4
607+of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) from im-5
608+porting a prescription drug from Canada that complies 6
609+with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Provided, 7
610+That this section shall apply only to individuals trans-8
611+porting on their person a personal-use quantity of the pre-9
612+scription drug, not to exceed a 90-day supply: Provided 10
613+further, That the prescription drug may not be— 11
614+(1) a controlled substance, as defined in section 12
615+102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 13
616+802); or 14
617+(2) a biological product, as defined in section 15
618+351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 16
619+262). 17
620+S
621+EC. 206. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 18
622+of law, none of the funds provided in this or any other 19
623+Act shall be used to approve a waiver of the navigation 20
624+and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to section 501(b) of 21
625+title 46, United States Code, for the transportation of 22
626+crude oil distributed from and to the Strategic Petroleum 23
627+Reserve until the Secretary of Homeland Security, after 24
628+consultation with the Secretaries of the Departments of 25
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632+Energy and Transportation and representatives from the 1
633+United States flag maritime industry, takes adequate 2
634+measures to ensure the use of United States flag vessels. 3
635+(b) The Secretary shall notify the Committees on Ap-4
636+propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-5
637+ate, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 6
638+of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 7
639+Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate 8
640+within 2 business days of any request for waivers of navi-9
641+gation and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to section 10
642+501(b) of title 46, United States Code, with respect to 11
643+such transportation, and the disposition of such requests. 12
644+S
645+EC. 207. (a) Beginning on the date of enactment 13
646+of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 14
647+not— 15
648+(1) establish, collect, or otherwise impose any 16
649+new border crossing fee on individuals crossing the 17
650+Southern border or the Northern border at a land 18
651+port of entry; or 19
652+(2) conduct any study relating to the imposition 20
653+of a border crossing fee. 21
654+(b) In this section, the term ‘‘border crossing fee’’ 22
655+means a fee that every pedestrian, cyclist, and driver and 23
656+passenger of a private motor vehicle is required to pay 24
657+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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659+•HR 4367 RH
660+for the privilege of crossing the Southern border or the 1
661+Northern border at a land port of entry. 2
662+S
663+EC. 208. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date 3
664+of enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Cus-4
665+toms and Border Protection shall submit an expenditure 5
666+plan for any amounts made available for ‘‘U.S. Customs 6
667+and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, and 7
668+Improvements’’ in this Act and prior Acts to the Commit-8
669+tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 9
670+and the Senate. 10
671+(b) No such amounts provided in this Act may be 11
672+obligated prior to the submission of such plan. 12
673+S
674+EC. 209. Section 211 of the Department of Home-13
675+land Security Appropriations Act, 2021 (division F of 14
676+Public Law 116–260), prohibiting the use of funds for the 15
677+construction of fencing in certain areas, shall apply with 16
678+respect to funds made available in this Act in the same 17
679+manner as such section applied to funds made available 18
680+in that Act. 19
681+S
682+EC. 210. (a) Funds made available in this Act may 20
683+be used to alter operations within the National Targeting 21
684+Center of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 22
685+(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, provided 23
686+by previous appropriations Acts that remain available for 24
687+obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2024, or provided 25
688+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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690+•HR 4367 RH
691+from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States 1
692+derived by the collection of fees available to the compo-2
693+nents funded by this Act, may be used to reduce antici-3
694+pated or planned vetting operations at existing locations 4
695+unless specifically authorized by a statute enacted after 5
696+the date of enactment of this Act. 6
697+S
698+EC. 211. (a) Of the total amount made available 7
699+under ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Procure-8
700+ment, Construction, and Improvements’’, $2,965,653,000 9
701+shall be available only as follows: 10
702+(1) $2,104,000,000 for the acquisition and de-11
703+ployment of physical barriers; 12
704+(2) $276,000,000 for the acquisition and de-13
705+ployment of border security technologies; 14
706+(3) $305,400,000 for trade and travel assets 15
707+and infrastructure; 16
708+(4) $119,768,000 for facility construction and 17
709+improvements; 18
710+(5) $123,232,000 for integrated operations as-19
711+sets and infrastructure; and 20
712+(6) $37,253,000 for mission support and infra-21
713+structure. 22
714+(b) None of the funds allocated for pedestrian phys-23
715+ical barriers may be made available for any purpose other 24
716+than the construction of steel bollard pedestrian barrier 25
717+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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719+•HR 4367 RH
720+built at least 18 to 30 feet in effective height and aug-1
721+mented with anti-climb and anti-dig features. 2
722+(c) None of the funds allocated for pedestrian phys-3
723+ical barriers may be made available for any purpose other 4
724+than construction of pedestrian barriers consistent with 5
725+the description in subsection (b) at locations identified in 6
726+the Border Security Improvement Plan submitted to Con-7
727+gress on August 1, 2020.8
728+(d) The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 9
729+Protection may reprioritize the construction of physical 10
730+barriers outlined in the Border Security Improvement 11
731+Plan and, with prior approval of the Committees on Ap-12
593732 propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-13
594-ate, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 14
595-of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 15
596-Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate 16
597-within 2 business days of any request for waivers of navi-17
598-gation and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to section 18
599-501(b) of title 46, United States Code, with respect to 19
600-such transportation, and the disposition of such requests. 20
601-S
602-EC. 207. (a) Beginning on the date of enactment 21
603-of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 22
604-not— 23
605-(1) establish, collect, or otherwise impose any 24
606-new border crossing fee on individuals crossing the 25 25
607-•HR 4367 EH
608-Southern border or the Northern border at a land 1
609-port of entry; or 2
610-(2) conduct any study relating to the imposition 3
611-of a border crossing fee. 4
612-(b) In this section, the term ‘‘border crossing fee’’ 5
613-means a fee that every pedestrian, cyclist, and driver and 6
614-passenger of a private motor vehicle is required to pay 7
615-for the privilege of crossing the Southern border or the 8
616-Northern border at a land port of entry. 9
617-S
618-EC. 208. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date 10
619-of enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Cus-11
620-toms and Border Protection shall submit an expenditure 12
621-plan for any amounts made available for ‘‘U.S. Customs 13
622-and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, and 14
623-Improvements’’ in this Act and prior Acts to the Commit-15
624-tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 16
625-and the Senate. 17
626-(b) No such amounts provided in this Act may be 18
627-obligated prior to the submission of such plan. 19
628-S
629-EC. 209. Section 211 of the Department of Home-20
630-land Security Appropriations Act, 2021 (division F of 21
631-Public Law 116–260), prohibiting the use of funds for the 22
632-construction of fencing in certain areas, shall apply with 23
633-respect to funds made available in this Act in the same 24 26
634-•HR 4367 EH
635-manner as such section applied to funds made available 1
636-in that Act. 2
637-S
638-EC. 210. (a) Funds made available in this Act may 3
639-be used to alter operations within the National Targeting 4
640-Center of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 5
641-(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, provided 6
642-by previous appropriations Acts that remain available for 7
643-obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2024, or provided 8
644-from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States 9
645-derived by the collection of fees available to the compo-10
646-nents funded by this Act, may be used to reduce antici-11
647-pated or planned vetting operations at existing locations 12
648-unless specifically authorized by a statute enacted after 13
649-the date of enactment of this Act. 14
650-S
651-EC. 211. (a) Of the total amount made available 15
652-under ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Procure-16
653-ment, Construction, and Improvements’’, $2,965,653,000 17
654-shall be available only as follows: 18
655-(1) $2,104,000,000 for the acquisition and de-19
656-ployment of physical barriers; 20
657-(2) $276,000,000 for the acquisition and de-21
658-ployment of border security technologies; 22
659-(3) $305,400,000 for trade and travel assets 23
660-and infrastructure; 24 27
661-•HR 4367 EH
662-(4) $119,768,000 for facility construction and 1
663-improvements; 2
664-(5) $123,232,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (in-3
665-creased by $1,000,000) for integrated operations as-4
666-sets and infrastructure; and 5
667-(6) $37,253,000 for mission support and infra-6
668-structure. 7
669-(b) None of the funds allocated for pedestrian phys-8
670-ical barriers may be made available for any purpose other 9
671-than the construction of steel bollard pedestrian barrier 10
672-built at least 18 to 30 feet in effective height and aug-11
673-mented with anti-climb and anti-dig features. 12
674-(c) None of the funds allocated for pedestrian phys-13
675-ical barriers may be made available for any purpose other 14
676-than construction of pedestrian barriers consistent with 15
677-the description in subsection (b) at locations identified in 16
678-the Border Security Improvement Plan submitted to Con-17
679-gress on August 1, 2020.18
680-(d) The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 19
681-Protection may reprioritize the construction of physical 20
682-barriers outlined in the Border Security Improvement 21
683-Plan and, with prior approval of the Committees on Ap-22
684-propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-23
685-ate, add additional miles of pedestrian physical barriers 24
686-where no such barriers exist, prioritized by operational re-25 28
687-•HR 4367 EH
688-quirements developed in coordination with U.S. Border 1
689-Patrol leadership. 2
690-(e) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall begin 3
691-to obligate amounts for physical barrier construction no 4
692-later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this 5
693-Act. 6
694-(f) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘effective 7
695-height’’ refers to the height above the level of the adjacent 8
696-terrain features. 9
697-S
698-EC. 212. None of the funds appropriated or other-10
699-wise made available by this Act may be obligated, ex-11
700-pended, or transferred to another Federal agency, board, 12
701-or commission to be used to dismantle, demolish, remove, 13
702-or damage existing United States-Mexico physical barriers 14
703-at any location where such barriers have been constructed 15
704-as of the date of enactment of this Act unless such barrier 16
705-is simultaneously being repaired or replaced. 17
706-S
707-EC. 213. None of the funds appropriated or other-18
708-wise made available by this Act may be made available 19
709-to utilize the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP 20
710-One Application, or any successor application, to facilitate 21
711-the parole of any alien into the United States. 22
712-S
713-EC. 214. None of the funds appropriated or other-23
714-wise made available by this Act may be made available 24
715-to reduce participation in or substantively diminish the 25 29
716-•HR 4367 EH
717-delegation of law enforcement authority authorized under 1
718-section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 2
719-except as provided in section 215 of this Act. 3
720-S
721-EC. 215. None of the funds provided under the 4
733+ate, add additional miles of pedestrian physical barriers 14
734+where no such barriers exist, prioritized by operational re-15
735+quirements developed in coordination with U.S. Border 16
736+Patrol leadership. 17
737+(e) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall begin 18
738+to obligate amounts for physical barrier construction no 19
739+later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this 20
740+Act. 21
741+(f) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘effective 22
742+height’’ refers to the height above the level of the adjacent 23
743+terrain features. 24
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747+SEC. 212. None of the funds appropriated or other-1
748+wise made available by this Act may be obligated, ex-2
749+pended, or transferred to another Federal agency, board, 3
750+or commission to be used to dismantle, demolish, remove, 4
751+or damage existing United States-Mexico physical barriers 5
752+at any location where such barriers have been constructed 6
753+as of the date of enactment of this Act unless such barrier 7
754+is simultaneously being repaired or replaced. 8
755+S
756+EC. 213. None of the funds appropriated or other-9
757+wise made available by this Act may be made available 10
758+to utilize the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP 11
759+One Application, or any successor application, to facilitate 12
760+the parole of any alien into the United States. 13
761+S
762+EC. 214. None of the funds appropriated or other-14
763+wise made available by this Act may be made available 15
764+to reduce participation in or substantively diminish the 16
765+delegation of law enforcement authority authorized under 17
766+section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 18
767+except as provided in section 215 of this Act. 19
768+S
769+EC. 215. None of the funds provided under the 20
770+heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement— 21
771+Operations and Support’’ may be used to continue a dele-22
772+gation of law enforcement authority authorized under sec-23
773+tion 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 24
774+U.S.C. 1357(g)) if the Department of Homeland Security 25
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778+Inspector General determines that the terms of the agree-1
779+ment governing the delegation of authority have been ma-2
780+terially violated. 3
781+S
782+EC. 216. (a) None of the funds provided under the 4
722783 heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement— 5
723-Operations and Support’’ may be used to continue a dele-6
724-gation of law enforcement authority authorized under sec-7
725-tion 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 8
726-U.S.C. 1357(g)) if the Department of Homeland Security 9
727-Inspector General determines that the terms of the agree-10
728-ment governing the delegation of authority have been ma-11
729-terially violated. 12
730-S
731-EC. 216. (a) None of the funds provided under the 13
732-heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement— 14
733-Operations and Support’’ may be used to continue any 15
734-contract for the provision of detention services if the two 16
735-most recent overall performance evaluations received by 17
736-the contracted facility are less than ‘‘adequate’’ or the 18
737-equivalent median score in any subsequent performance 19
738-evaluation system. 20
739-(b) The performance evaluations referenced in sub-21
740-section (a) shall be conducted by the U.S. Immigration 22
741-and Customs Enforcement Office of Professional Respon-23
742-sibility. 24 30
743-•HR 4367 EH
744-SEC. 217. Without regard to the limitation as to time 1
745-and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, the Secretary 2
746-may reprogram within and transfer funds to ‘‘U.S. Immi-3
747-gration and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Sup-4
748-port’’ as necessary to ensure the detention of aliens 5
749-prioritized for removal. 6
750-S
751-EC. 218. The reports required to be submitted under 7
752-section 216 of the Department of Homeland Security Ap-8
753-propriations Act, 2021 (division F of Public Law 116– 9
754-260) shall continue to be submitted semimonthly and each 10
755-matter required to be included in such reports by such 11
756-section 216 shall apply in the same manner and to the 12
757-same extent during the period described in such section 13
758-216. 14
759-S
760-EC. 219. The terms and conditions of section 217 15
761-of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 16
762-Act, 2020 (division D of Public Law 116–93) shall apply 17
763-to this Act. 18
764-S
765-EC. 220. None of the funds appropriated or other-19
766-wise made available by this Act may be made available 20
767-to implement, administer, or otherwise carry out the ac-21
768-tivities and policies described in the memorandum issued 22
769-by the Secretary of Homeland Security on September 30, 23
770-2021, entitled ‘‘Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil 24
771-Immigration Law’’ or described in the memorandum 25 31
772-•HR 4367 EH
773-issued by Kerry Doyle, Immigration and Customs En-1
774-forcement Principal Legal Advisor on April 3, 2022, enti-2
775-tled ‘‘Guidance to OPLA Attorneys Regarding the En-3
776-forcement of Civil Immigration Laws and the Exercise of 4
777-Prosecutorial Discretion’’ or any successor or similar 5
778-memorandum or policy. 6
779-S
780-EC. 221. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-7
781-erwise made available by this Act may be made available 8
782-to transport aliens unlawfully present in, paroled into, or 9
783-inadmissible to the United States into the interior of the 10
784-United States for purposes other than enforcement of the 11
785-immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 12
786-of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)). 13
787-(b) The limitation under subsection (a) shall not 14
788-apply with respect to amounts made available to transport 15
789-unaccompanied alien children (as such term is defined in 16
790-section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 17
791-U.S.C. 279)). 18
792-S
793-EC. 222. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-19
794-erwise made available by this Act for ‘‘U.S. Immigration 20
795-and Customs Enforcement’’ may be used to pay for or 21
796-facilitate an abortion, except where the life of the mother 22
797-would be endangered if the fetus would be carried to term, 23
798-or in the case of rape or incest. 24 32
799-•HR 4367 EH
800-(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 1
801-made available by this Act for ‘‘U.S. Immigration and 2
802-Customs Enforcement’’ may be used to require any person 3
803-to perform, or facilitate in any way the performance of, 4
804-any abortion. 5
805-S
806-EC. 223. None of the funds appropriated or other-6
807-wise made available by this Act may be made available 7
808-to administer hormone therapy medication or perform or 8
809-facilitate any surgery for any person in custody of U.S. 9
810-Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose 10
811-of gender-affirming care. 11
812-S
813-EC. 224. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 12
814-allocate amounts appropriated or otherwise made available 13
815-under the heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-14
816-forcement—Operations and Support’’ by this Act in order 15
817-to— 16
818-(1) prioritize detention by using such amounts 17
819-to ensure that the average daily population of de-18
820-tainees is maintained at the full capacity at all de-19
821-tention facilities funded by this Act throughout the 20
822-fiscal year; and 21
823-(2) ensure that every alien on the non-detained 22
824-docket is enrolled into the Alternatives to Detention 23
825-Program with mandatory GPS monitoring through-24
826-out the duration of all applicable immigration pro-25 33
827-•HR 4367 EH
828-ceedings (including any appeals) and until removal, 1
829-if ordered removed. 2
830-S
831-EC. 225. Members of the United States House of 3
832-Representatives and the United States Senate, including 4
833-the leadership; the heads of Federal agencies and commis-5
834-sions, including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Under 6
835-Secretaries, and Assistant Secretaries of the Department 7
836-of Homeland Security; the United States Attorney Gen-8
837-eral, Deputy Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys Gen-9
838-eral, and the United States Attorneys; and senior mem-10
839-bers of the Executive Office of the President, including 11
840-the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 12
841-shall not be exempt from Federal passenger and baggage 13
842-screening. 14
843-S
844-EC. 226. Notwithstanding section 44923 of title 49, 15
845-United States Code, for fiscal year 2024, any funds in 16
846-the Aviation Security Capital Fund established by section 17
847-44923(h) of title 49, United States Code, may be used 18
848-for the procurement and installation of explosives detec-19
849-tion systems or for the issuance of other transaction agree-20
850-ments for the purpose of funding projects described in sec-21
851-tion 44923(a) of such title. 22
852-S
853-EC. 227. Not later than 45 days after the submis-23
854-sion of the President’s budget proposal, the Administrator 24
855-of the Transportation Security Administration shall sub-25 34
856-•HR 4367 EH
857-mit to the Committees on Appropriations and Homeland 1
858-Security in the House of Representatives and the Commit-2
859-tees on Appropriations and Commerce, Science, and 3
860-Transportation of the Senate a single report that fulfills 4
861-the following requirements: 5
862-(1) a Capital Investment Plan, both constrained 6
863-and unconstrained, that includes a plan for contin-7
864-uous and sustained capital investment in new, and 8
865-the replacement of aged, transportation security 9
866-equipment; 10
867-(2) the 5-year technology investment plan as re-11
868-quired by section 1611 of title XVI of the Homeland 12
869-Security Act of 2002, as amended by section 3 of 13
870-the Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act 14
871-(Public Law 113–245); and 15
872-(3) the Advanced Integrated Passenger Screen-16
873-ing Technologies report as required by the Senate 17
874-Report accompanying the Department of Homeland 18
875-Security Appropriations Act, 2019 (Senate Report 19
876-115–283). 20
877-S
878-EC. 228. None of the funds made available under 21
879-the heading ‘‘Transportation Security Administration— 22
880-Operations and Support’’ may be made available for the 23
881-purpose of implementation of any structural pay reform 24
882-that would alter the pay structure in place as of October 25 35
883-•HR 4367 EH
884-1, 2022, for any employee that is not a Transportation 1
885-Security Officer. 2
886-S
887-EC. 229. (a) None of the funds made available by 3
888-this Act under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Operations 4
889-and Support’’ shall be for expenses incurred for rec-5
890-reational vessels under section 12114 of title 46, United 6
891-States Code, except to the extent fees are collected from 7
892-owners of yachts and credited to the appropriation made 8
893-available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard— 9
894-Operations and Support’’. 10
895-(b) To the extent such fees are insufficient to pay 11
896-expenses of recreational vessel documentation under such 12
897-section 12114, and there is a backlog of recreational vessel 13
898-applications, personnel performing non-recreational vessel 14
899-documentation functions under subchapter II of chapter 15
900-121 of title 46, United States Code, may perform docu-16
901-mentation under section 12114. 17
902-S
903-EC. 230. Without regard to the limitation as to time 18
904-and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, after June 19
905-30, in accordance with the notification requirement de-20
906-scribed in subsection (b) of such section, up to the fol-21
907-lowing amounts may be reprogrammed within ‘‘Coast 22
908-Guard—Operations and Support’’— 23
909-(1) $10,000,000 to or from the ‘‘Military Per-24
910-sonnel’’ funding category; and 25 36
911-•HR 4367 EH
912-(2) $10,000,000 between the ‘‘Field Oper-1
913-ations’’ funding subcategories. 2
914-S
915-EC. 231. Notwithstanding any other provision of 3
916-law, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall submit 4
917-to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-5
918-resentatives and the Senate a future-years capital invest-6
919-ment plan as described in the second proviso under the 7
920-heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Acquisition, Construction, and 8
921-Improvements’’ in the Department of Homeland Security 9
922-Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 114–4), which shall 10
923-be subject to the requirements in the third and fourth pro-11
924-visos under such heading. 12
925-S
926-EC. 232. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 13
927-to reduce the Coast Guard’s legacy Operations Systems 14
928-Center mission or its government-employed or contract 15
929-staff levels. 16
930-S
931-EC. 233. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 17
932-may be used to conduct, or to implement the results of, 18
933-a competition under Office of Management and Budget 19
934-Circular A–76 for activities performed with respect to the 20
935-Coast Guard National Vessel Documentation Center. 21
936-S
937-EC. 234. Funds made available in this Act may be 22
938-used to alter operations within the Civil Engineering Pro-23
939-gram of the Coast Guard nationwide, including civil engi-24
940-neering units, facilities design and construction centers, 25 37
941-•HR 4367 EH
942-maintenance and logistics commands, and the Coast 1
943-Guard Academy, except that none of the funds provided 2
944-in this Act may be used to reduce operations within any 3
945-civil engineering unit unless specifically authorized by a 4
946-statute enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 5
947-S
948-EC. 235. Amounts deposited into the Coast Guard 6
949-Housing Fund in fiscal year 2024 shall be available until 7
950-expended to carry out the purposes of section 2946 of title 8
951-14, United States Code, and shall be in addition to funds 9
952-otherwise available for such purposes. 10
953-S
954-EC. 236. (a) Notwithstanding section 2110 of title 11
955-46, United States Code, none of the funds made available 12
956-in this Act shall be used to charge a fee for an inspection 13
957-of a towing vessel, as defined in 46 CFR 136.110, that 14
958-utilizes the Towing Safety Management System option for 15
959-a Certificate of Inspection issued under subchapter M of 16
960-title 46, Code of Federal Regulations. 17
961-(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply after the date the 18
962-Commandant of the Coast Guard makes a determination 19
963-under section 815(a) of the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard 20
964-Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–282) and, as 21
965-necessary based on such determination, carries out the re-22
966-quirements of section 815(b) of such Act. 23
967-S
968-EC. 237. The United States Secret Service is au-24
969-thorized to obligate funds in anticipation of reimburse-25 38
970-•HR 4367 EH
971-ments from executive agencies, as defined in section 105 1
972-of title 5, United States Code, for personnel receiving 2
973-training sponsored by the James J. Rowley Training Cen-3
974-ter, except that total obligations at the end of the fiscal 4
975-year shall not exceed total budgetary resources available 5
976-under the heading ‘‘United States Secret Service—Oper-6
977-ations and Support’’ at the end of the fiscal year. 7
978-S
979-EC. 238. (a) None of the funds made available to 8
980-the United States Secret Service by this Act or by previous 9
981-appropriations Acts may be made available for the protec-10
982-tion of the head of a Federal agency other than the Sec-11
983-retary of Homeland Security. 12
984-(b) The Director of the United States Secret Service 13
985-may enter into agreements to provide such protection on 14
986-a fully reimbursable basis. 15
987-S
988-EC. 239. For purposes of section 503(a)(3) of this 16
989-Act, up to $15,000,000 may be reprogrammed within 17
990-‘‘United States Secret Service—Operations and Support’’. 18
991-S
992-EC. 240. Funding made available in this Act for 19
993-‘‘United States Secret Service—Operations and Support’’ 20
994-is available for travel of United States Secret Service em-21
995-ployees on protective missions without regard to the limi-22
996-tations on such expenditures in this or any other Act if 23
997-the Director of the United States Secret Service or a des-24
998-ignee notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 25 39
999-•HR 4367 EH
1000-House of Representatives and the Senate 10 or more days 1
1001-in advance, or as early as practicable, prior to such ex-2
1002-penditures. 3
1003-S
1004-EC. 241. None of the funds appropriated or other-4
1005-wise made available by this Act may be made available 5
1006-to implement, administer, or otherwise carry out the poli-6
1007-cies described in the directive issued by the Acting Com-7
1008-missioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Jan-8
1009-uary 10, 2023, entitled ‘‘Emergency Driving and Vehic-9
1010-ular Pursuits’’, or any successor or similar directive or pol-10
1011-icy. 11
1012-S
1013-EC. 242. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
1014-wise made available by this Act may be made available 13
1015-to admit an alien into the United States based on a De-14
1016-partment of Homeland Security Form I-20 (Certificate of 15
1017-Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status) issued by a 16
1018-college, university, or other institution of higher education 17
1019-that is not accredited by a nationally recognized accred-18
1020-iting agency or association recognized by the Secretary of 19
1021-Education pursuant to part H of title IV of the Higher 20
1022-Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1099a et seq.). 21
1023-S
1024-EC. 243. None of the funds appropriated or other-22
1025-wise made available by this Act may be made available 23
1026-to parole into the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 24
1027-Islands, for the purpose of temporary visit for business 25 40
1028-•HR 4367 EH
1029-or pleasure without a visa, an alien who is a national of 1
1030-the People’s Republic of China. 2
1031-S
1032-EC. 244. None of the funds appropriated or other-3
1033-wise made available by this Act or previous appropriations 4
1034-Acts under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Procurement, 5
1035-Construction, and Improvements’’ that remain available 6
1036-for obligation in fiscal year 2024 within the Waterways 7
1037-Commerce Cutter Program may be used to enter into or 8
1038-carry out a procurement contract with any entity deemed 9
1039-not eligible for an award from a size standpoint by the 10
1040-Small Business Administration. 11 41
1041-•HR 4367 EH
784+Operations and Support’’ may be used to continue any 6
785+contract for the provision of detention services if the two 7
786+most recent overall performance evaluations received by 8
787+the contracted facility are less than ‘‘adequate’’ or the 9
788+equivalent median score in any subsequent performance 10
789+evaluation system. 11
790+(b) The performance evaluations referenced in sub-12
791+section (a) shall be conducted by the U.S. Immigration 13
792+and Customs Enforcement Office of Professional Respon-14
793+sibility. 15
794+S
795+EC. 217. Without regard to the limitation as to time 16
796+and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, the Secretary 17
797+may reprogram within and transfer funds to ‘‘U.S. Immi-18
798+gration and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Sup-19
799+port’’ as necessary to ensure the detention of aliens 20
800+prioritized for removal. 21
801+S
802+EC. 218. The reports required to be submitted under 22
803+section 216 of the Department of Homeland Security Ap-23
804+propriations Act, 2021 (division F of Public Law 116– 24
805+260) shall continue to be submitted semimonthly and each 25
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808+•HR 4367 RH
809+matter required to be included in such reports by such 1
810+section 216 shall apply in the same manner and to the 2
811+same extent during the period described in such section 3
812+216. 4
813+S
814+EC. 219. The terms and conditions of section 217 5
815+of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 6
816+Act, 2020 (division D of Public Law 116–93) shall apply 7
817+to this Act. 8
818+S
819+EC. 220. None of the funds appropriated or other-9
820+wise made available by this Act may be made available 10
821+to implement, administer, or otherwise carry out the ac-11
822+tivities and policies described in the memorandum issued 12
823+by the Secretary of Homeland Security on September 30, 13
824+2021, entitled ‘‘Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil 14
825+Immigration Law’’ or described in the memorandum 15
826+issued by Kerry Doyle, Immigration and Customs En-16
827+forcement Principal Legal Advisor on April 3, 2022, enti-17
828+tled ‘‘Guidance to OPLA Attorneys Regarding the En-18
829+forcement of Civil Immigration Laws and the Exercise of 19
830+Prosecutorial Discretion’’ or any successor or similar 20
831+memorandum or policy. 21
832+S
833+EC. 221. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-22
834+erwise made available by this Act may be made available 23
835+to transport aliens unlawfully present in, paroled into, or 24
836+inadmissible to the United States into the interior of the 25
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839+•HR 4367 RH
840+United States for purposes other than enforcement of the 1
841+immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 2
842+of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)). 3
843+(b) The limitation under subsection (a) shall not 4
844+apply with respect to amounts made available to transport 5
845+unaccompanied alien children (as such term is defined in 6
846+section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 7
847+U.S.C. 279)). 8
848+S
849+EC. 222. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-9
850+erwise made available by this Act for ‘‘U.S. Immigration 10
851+and Customs Enforcement’’ may be used to pay for or 11
852+facilitate an abortion, except where the life of the mother 12
853+would be endangered if the fetus would be carried to term, 13
854+or in the case of rape or incest. 14
855+(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 15
856+made available by this Act for ‘‘U.S. Immigration and 16
857+Customs Enforcement’’ may be used to require any person 17
858+to perform, or facilitate in any way the performance of, 18
859+any abortion. 19
860+S
861+EC. 223. None of the funds appropriated or other-20
862+wise made available by this Act may be made available 21
863+to administer hormone therapy medication or perform or 22
864+facilitate any surgery for any person in custody of U.S. 23
865+Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose 24
866+of gender-affirming care. 25
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870+SEC. 224. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 1
871+allocate amounts appropriated or otherwise made available 2
872+under the heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-3
873+forcement—Operations and Support’’ by this Act in order 4
874+to— 5
875+(1) prioritize detention by using such amounts 6
876+to ensure that the average daily population of de-7
877+tainees is maintained at the full capacity funded by 8
878+this Act throughout the fiscal year; and 9
879+(2) ensure that every alien on the non-detained 10
880+docket is enrolled into the Alternatives to Detention 11
881+Program with mandatory GPS monitoring through-12
882+out the duration of all applicable immigration pro-13
883+ceedings (including any appeals) and until removal, 14
884+if ordered removed. 15
885+S
886+EC. 225. Members of the United States House of 16
887+Representatives and the United States Senate, including 17
888+the leadership; the heads of Federal agencies and commis-18
889+sions, including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Under 19
890+Secretaries, and Assistant Secretaries of the Department 20
891+of Homeland Security; the United States Attorney Gen-21
892+eral, Deputy Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys Gen-22
893+eral, and the United States Attorneys; and senior mem-23
894+bers of the Executive Office of the President, including 24
895+the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 25
896+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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899+shall not be exempt from Federal passenger and baggage 1
900+screening. 2
901+S
902+EC. 226. Notwithstanding section 44923 of title 49, 3
903+United States Code, for fiscal year 2024, any funds in 4
904+the Aviation Security Capital Fund established by section 5
905+44923(h) of title 49, United States Code, may be used 6
906+for the procurement and installation of explosives detec-7
907+tion systems or for the issuance of other transaction agree-8
908+ments for the purpose of funding projects described in sec-9
909+tion 44923(a) of such title. 10
910+S
911+EC. 227. Not later than 45 days after the submis-11
912+sion of the President’s budget proposal, the Administrator 12
913+of the Transportation Security Administration shall sub-13
914+mit to the Committees on Appropriations and Homeland 14
915+Security in the House of Representatives and the Commit-15
916+tees on Appropriations and Commerce, Science, and 16
917+Transportation of the Senate a single report that fulfills 17
918+the following requirements: 18
919+(1) a Capital Investment Plan, both constrained 19
920+and unconstrained, that includes a plan for contin-20
921+uous and sustained capital investment in new, and 21
922+the replacement of aged, transportation security 22
923+equipment; 23
924+(2) the 5-year technology investment plan as re-24
925+quired by section 1611 of title XVI of the Homeland 25
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928+•HR 4367 RH
929+Security Act of 2002, as amended by section 3 of 1
930+the Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act 2
931+(Public Law 113–245); and 3
932+(3) the Advanced Integrated Passenger Screen-4
933+ing Technologies report as required by the Senate 5
934+Report accompanying the Department of Homeland 6
935+Security Appropriations Act, 2019 (Senate Report 7
936+115–283). 8
937+S
938+EC. 228. None of the funds made available under 9
939+the heading ‘‘Transportation Security Administration— 10
940+Operations and Support’’ may be made available for the 11
941+purpose of implementation of any structural pay reform 12
942+that would alter the pay structure in place as of October 13
943+1, 2022, for any employee that is not a Transportation 14
944+Security Officer. 15
945+S
946+EC. 229. (a) None of the funds made available by 16
947+this Act under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Operations 17
948+and Support’’ shall be for expenses incurred for rec-18
949+reational vessels under section 12114 of title 46, United 19
950+States Code, except to the extent fees are collected from 20
951+owners of yachts and credited to the appropriation made 21
952+available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard— 22
953+Operations and Support’’. 23
954+(b) To the extent such fees are insufficient to pay 24
955+expenses of recreational vessel documentation under such 25
956+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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958+•HR 4367 RH
959+section 12114, and there is a backlog of recreational vessel 1
960+applications, personnel performing non-recreational vessel 2
961+documentation functions under subchapter II of chapter 3
962+121 of title 46, United States Code, may perform docu-4
963+mentation under section 12114. 5
964+S
965+EC. 230. Without regard to the limitation as to time 6
966+and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, after June 7
967+30, in accordance with the notification requirement de-8
968+scribed in subsection (b) of such section, up to the fol-9
969+lowing amounts may be reprogrammed within ‘‘Coast 10
970+Guard—Operations and Support’’— 11
971+(1) $10,000,000 to or from the ‘‘Military Per-12
972+sonnel’’ funding category; and 13
973+(2) $10,000,000 between the ‘‘Field Oper-14
974+ations’’ funding subcategories. 15
975+S
976+EC. 231. Notwithstanding any other provision of 16
977+law, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall submit 17
978+to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-18
979+resentatives and the Senate a future-years capital invest-19
980+ment plan as described in the second proviso under the 20
981+heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Acquisition, Construction, and 21
982+Improvements’’ in the Department of Homeland Security 22
983+Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 114–4), which shall 23
984+be subject to the requirements in the third and fourth pro-24
985+visos under such heading. 25
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988+•HR 4367 RH
989+SEC. 232. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 1
990+to reduce the Coast Guard’s legacy Operations Systems 2
991+Center mission or its government-employed or contract 3
992+staff levels. 4
993+S
994+EC. 233. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 5
995+may be used to conduct, or to implement the results of, 6
996+a competition under Office of Management and Budget 7
997+Circular A–76 for activities performed with respect to the 8
998+Coast Guard National Vessel Documentation Center. 9
999+S
1000+EC. 234. Funds made available in this Act may be 10
1001+used to alter operations within the Civil Engineering Pro-11
1002+gram of the Coast Guard nationwide, including civil engi-12
1003+neering units, facilities design and construction centers, 13
1004+maintenance and logistics commands, and the Coast 14
1005+Guard Academy, except that none of the funds provided 15
1006+in this Act may be used to reduce operations within any 16
1007+civil engineering unit unless specifically authorized by a 17
1008+statute enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 18
1009+S
1010+EC. 235. Amounts deposited into the Coast Guard 19
1011+Housing Fund in fiscal year 2024 shall be available until 20
1012+expended to carry out the purposes of section 2946 of title 21
1013+14, United States Code, and shall be in addition to funds 22
1014+otherwise available for such purposes. 23
1015+S
1016+EC. 236. (a) Notwithstanding section 2110 of title 24
1017+46, United States Code, none of the funds made available 25
1018+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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1020+•HR 4367 RH
1021+in this Act shall be used to charge a fee for an inspection 1
1022+of a towing vessel, as defined in 46 CFR 136.110, that 2
1023+utilizes the Towing Safety Management System option for 3
1024+a Certificate of Inspection issued under subchapter M of 4
1025+title 46, Code of Federal Regulations. 5
1026+(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply after the date the 6
1027+Commandant of the Coast Guard makes a determination 7
1028+under section 815(a) of the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard 8
1029+Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–282) and, as 9
1030+necessary based on such determination, carries out the re-10
1031+quirements of section 815(b) of such Act. 11
1032+S
1033+EC. 237. The United States Secret Service is au-12
1034+thorized to obligate funds in anticipation of reimburse-13
1035+ments from executive agencies, as defined in section 105 14
1036+of title 5, United States Code, for personnel receiving 15
1037+training sponsored by the James J. Rowley Training Cen-16
1038+ter, except that total obligations at the end of the fiscal 17
1039+year shall not exceed total budgetary resources available 18
1040+under the heading ‘‘United States Secret Service—Oper-19
1041+ations and Support’’ at the end of the fiscal year. 20
1042+S
1043+EC. 238. (a) None of the funds made available to 21
1044+the United States Secret Service by this Act or by previous 22
1045+appropriations Acts may be made available for the protec-23
1046+tion of the head of a Federal agency other than the Sec-24
1047+retary of Homeland Security. 25
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1051+(b) The Director of the United States Secret Service 1
1052+may enter into agreements to provide such protection on 2
1053+a fully reimbursable basis. 3
1054+S
1055+EC. 239. For purposes of section 503(a)(3) of this 4
1056+Act, up to $15,000,000 may be reprogrammed within 5
1057+‘‘United States Secret Service—Operations and Support’’. 6
1058+S
1059+EC. 240. Funding made available in this Act for 7
1060+‘‘United States Secret Service—Operations and Support’’ 8
1061+is available for travel of United States Secret Service em-9
1062+ployees on protective missions without regard to the limi-10
1063+tations on such expenditures in this or any other Act if 11
1064+the Director of the United States Secret Service or a des-12
1065+ignee notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 13
1066+House of Representatives and the Senate 10 or more days 14
1067+in advance, or as early as practicable, prior to such ex-15
1068+penditures. 16
1069+S
1070+EC. 241. None of the funds appropriated or other-17
1071+wise made available by this Act may be made available 18
1072+to implement, administer, or otherwise carry out the poli-19
1073+cies described in the directive issued by the Acting Com-20
1074+missioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Jan-21
1075+uary 10, 2023, entitled ‘‘Emergency Driving and Vehic-22
1076+ular Pursuits’’, or any successor or similar directive or pol-23
1077+icy. 24
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1081+SEC. 242. None of the funds appropriated or other-1
1082+wise made available by this Act may be made available 2
1083+to admit an alien into the United States based on a De-3
1084+partment of Homeland Security Form I-20 (Certificate of 4
1085+Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status) issued by a 5
1086+college, university, or other institution of higher education 6
1087+that is not accredited by a nationally recognized accred-7
1088+iting agency or association recognized by the Secretary of 8
1089+Education pursuant to part H of title IV of the Higher 9
1090+Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1099a et seq.). 10
1091+S
1092+EC. 243. None of the funds appropriated or other-11
1093+wise made available by this Act may be made available 12
1094+to parole into the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 13
1095+Islands, for the purpose of temporary visit for business 14
1096+or pleasure without a visa, an alien who is a national of 15
1097+the People’s Republic of China. 16
1098+S
1099+EC. 244. None of the funds appropriated or other-17
1100+wise made available by this Act or previous appropriations 18
1101+Acts under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Procurement, 19
1102+Construction, and Improvements’’ that remain available 20
1103+for obligation in fiscal year 2024 within the Waterways 21
1104+Commerce Cutter Program may be used to enter into or 22
1105+carry out a procurement contract with any entity deemed 23
1106+not eligible for an award from a size standpoint by the 24
1107+Small Business Administration. 25
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10421111 TITLE III 1
10431112 PROTECTION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND 2
10441113 RECOVERY 3
10451114 C
10461115 YBERSECURITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY 4
10471116 A
10481117 GENCY 5
10491118 OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 6
10501119 For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-7
10511120 frastructure Security Agency for operations and support, 8
1052-$2,370,963,000 (reduced by $1,000,000, increased by 9
1053-$1,000,000), of which $24,424,000 shall remain available 10
1054-until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to exceed 11
1055-$3,825 shall be for official reception and representation 12
1056-expenses: Provided further, That $5,000,000 shall be with-13
1057-held from obligation until the reports and briefings di-14
1058-rected under this heading in the explanatory statement ac-15
1059-companying Public Law 117–103 have been submitted to 16
1060-the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-17
1061-resentatives and the Senate. 18
1062-PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 19
1063-For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-20
1064-frastructure Security Agency for procurement, construc-21
1065-tion, and improvements, $553,537,000, to remain avail-22
1066-able until September 30, 2026. 23 42
1067-•HR 4367 EH
1068-RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 1
1069-For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-2
1070-frastructure Security Agency for research and develop-3
1071-ment, $1,791,000, to remain available until September 30, 4
1072-2025. 5
1121+$2,370,963,000, of which $24,424,000 shall remain avail-9
1122+able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-10
1123+ceed $3,825 shall be for official reception and representa-11
1124+tion expenses: Provided further, That $5,000,000 shall be 12
1125+withheld from obligation until the reports and briefings 13
1126+directed under this heading in the explanatory statement 14
1127+accompanying Public Law 117–103 have been submitted 15
1128+to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-16
1129+resentatives and the Senate. 17
1130+PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 18
1131+For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-19
1132+frastructure Security Agency for procurement, construc-20
1133+tion, and improvements, $553,537,000, to remain avail-21
1134+able until September 30, 2026. 22
1135+RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 23
1136+For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-24
1137+frastructure Security Agency for research and develop-25
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1141+ment, $1,791,000, to remain available until September 30, 1
1142+2025. 2
10731143 F
1074-EDERALEMERGENCYMANAGEMENTAGENCY 6
1075-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 7
1076-For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency 8
1077-Management Agency for operations and support, 9
1078-$1,521,248,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by 10
1079-$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 11
1080-$10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000): Provided, That 12
1081-not to exceed $2,250 shall be for official reception and 13
1082-representation expenses. 14
1083-PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 15
1084-For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency 16
1085-Management Agency for procurement, construction, and 17
1086-improvements, $119,137,000, of which $81,637,000 shall 18
1087-remain available until September 30, 2026, and of which 19
1088-$37,500,000 shall remain available until September 30, 20
1089-2028. 21
1090-FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 22
1091-For activities of the Federal Emergency Management 23
1092-Agency for Federal assistance through grants, contracts, 24
1093-cooperative agreements, and other activities, 25 43
1094-•HR 4367 EH
1095-$3,742,460,342 (increased by $10,000,000) (increased by 1
1096-$20,000,000) (increased by $20,000,000), which shall be 2
1097-allocated as follows: 3
1098-(1) $530,000,000 (increased by $10,000,000) 4
1099-for the State Homeland Security Grant Program 5
1100-under section 2004 of the Homeland Security Act of 6
1101-2002 (6 U.S.C. 605), of which $100,000,000 (in-7
1102-creased by $10,000,000) shall be for Operation 8
1103-Stonegarden and $15,000,000 shall be for Tribal 9
1104-Homeland Security Grants under section 2005 of 10
1105-the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 606): 11
1106-Provided, That notwithstanding subsection (c)(4) of 12
1107-such section 2004, for fiscal year 2024, the Com-13
1108-monwealth of Puerto Rico shall make available to 14
1109-local and tribal governments amounts provided to 15
1110-the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under this para-16
1111-graph in accordance with subsection (c)(1) of such 17
1112-section 2004. 18
1113-(2) $615,000,000 for the Urban Area Security 19
1114-Initiative under section 2003 of the Homeland Secu-20
1115-rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604). 21
1116-(3) $315,000,000 (increased by $20,000,000) 22
1117-for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program under 23
1118-section 2009 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 24
1119-(6 U.S.C. 609a), of which $157,500,000 (increased 25 44
1120-•HR 4367 EH
1121-by $10,000,000) is for eligible recipients located in 1
1122-high-risk urban areas that receive funding under 2
1123-section 2003 of such Act and $157,500,000 (in-3
1124-creased by $10,000,000) is for eligible recipients 4
1125-that are located outside such areas: Provided, That 5
1126-eligible recipients are those described in section 6
1127-2009(b) of such Act (6 U.S.C. 609a(b)) or are an 7
1128-otherwise eligible recipient at risk of a terrorist or 8
1129-other extremist attack. 9
1130-(4) $105,000,000 for Public Transportation Se-10
1131-curity Assistance, Railroad Security Assistance, and 11
1132-Over-the-Road Bus Security Assistance under sec-12
1133-tions 1406, 1513, and 1532 of the Implementing 13
1134-Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 14
1135-2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135, 1163, and 1182), of which 15
1136-$10,000,000 shall be for Amtrak security and 16
1137-$5,000,000 shall be for Over-the-Road Bus Security: 17
1138-Provided, That such public transportation security 18
1139-assistance shall be provided directly to public trans-19
1140-portation agencies. 20
1141-(5) $100,000,000 for Port Security Grants in 21
1142-accordance with section 70107 of title 46, United 22
1143-States Code. 23
1144-(6) $720,000,000 (increased by $20,000,000), 24
1145-to remain available until September 30, 2025, of 25 45
1146-•HR 4367 EH
1147-which $360,000,000 (increased by $10,000,000) 1
1148-shall be for Assistance to Firefighter Grants and 2
1149-$360,000,000 (increased by $10,000,000) shall be 3
1150-for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Re-4
1151-sponse Grants under sections 33 and 34 respectively 5
1152-of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 6
1153-1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229 and 2229a). 7
1154-(7) $355,000,000 for emergency management 8
1155-performance grants under the National Flood Insur-9
1156-ance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Rob-10
1157-ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-11
1158-sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121), the Earthquake Haz-12
1159-ards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701), sec-13
1160-tion 762 of title 6, United States Code, and Reorga-14
1161-nization Plan No. 3 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 15
1162-(8) $312,750,000 for necessary expenses for 16
1163-Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis, in addi-17
1164-tion to and to supplement any other sums appro-18
1165-priated under the National Flood Insurance Fund, 19
1166-and such additional sums as may be provided by 20
1167-States or other political subdivisions for cost-shared 21
1168-mapping activities under section 1360(f)(2) of the 22
1169-National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 23
1170-4101(f)(2)), to remain available until expended. 24 46
1171-•HR 4367 EH
1172-(9) $12,000,000 for Regional Catastrophic Pre-1
1173-paredness Grants. 2
1174-(10) $130,000,000 for the emergency food and 3
1175-shelter program under title III of the McKinney- 4
1176-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331), 5
1177-to remain available until September 30, 2025: Pro-6
1178-vided, That not to exceed 3.5 percent shall be for 7
1179-total administrative costs. 8
1180-(11) $40,000,000 for the Next Generation 9
1181-Warning System. 10
1182-(12) $181,223,342 for Community Project 11
1183-Funding grants, which shall be for the purposes, 12
1184-and the amounts, specified in the table entitled 13
1185-‘‘Homeland Security—Community Project Funding’’ 14
1186-in the report accompanying this Act, of which— 15
1187-(A) $65,627,263, in addition to amounts 16
1188-otherwise made available for such purpose, is 17
1189-for emergency operations center grants under 18
1190-section 614 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 19
1191-Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 20
1192-U.S.C. 5196c); and 21
1193-(B) $115,596,079, in addition to amounts 22
1194-otherwise made available for such purpose, is 23
1195-for pre-disaster mitigation grants under section 24
1196-203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 25 47
1197-•HR 4367 EH
1198-and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 1
1199-5133(e), notwithstanding subsections (f), (g), 2
1200-and (l) of that section (42 U.S.C. 5133(f), (g), 3
1201-(l)). 4
1202-(13) $326,487,000 to sustain current oper-5
1203-ations for training, exercises, technical assistance, 6
1204-and other programs. 7
1205-DISASTER RELIEF FUND 8
1206-For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert 9
1207-T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 10
1208-(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $20,406,341,000, to remain 11
1209-available until expended, of which $20,261,000,000 (re-12
1210-duced by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) shall 13
1211-be for major disasters declared pursuant to the Robert T. 14
1212-Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 15
1213-(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and is designated by the Con-16
1214-gress as being for disaster relief pursuant to section 17
1215-251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 18
1216-Deficit Control Act of 1985. 19
1217-NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND 20
1218-For activities under the National Flood Insurance 21
1219-Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Flood Disaster 22
1220-Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the 23
1221-Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 24
1222-(Public Law 112–141, 126 Stat. 916), and the Home-25 48
1223-•HR 4367 EH
1224-owner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (Public 1
1225-Law 113–89; 128 Stat. 1020), $239,983,000, to remain 2
1226-available until September 30, 2025, which shall be derived 3
1227-from offsetting amounts collected under section 1308(d) 4
1228-of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 5
1229-4015(d)); of which $18,917,000 shall be available for mis-6
1230-sion support associated with flood management; and of 7
1231-which $221,066,000 shall be available for flood plain man-8
1232-agement and flood mapping: Provided, That any addi-9
1233-tional fees collected pursuant to section 1308(d) of the 10
1144+EDERALEMERGENCYMANAGEMENTAGENCY 3
1145+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 4
1146+For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency 5
1147+Management Agency for operations and support, 6
1148+$1,521,248,000: Provided, That not to exceed $2,250 shall 7
1149+be for official reception and representation expenses. 8
1150+PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 9
1151+For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency 10
1152+Management Agency for procurement, construction, and 11
1153+improvements, $119,137,000, of which $81,637,000 shall 12
1154+remain available until September 30, 2026, and of which 13
1155+$37,500,000 shall remain available until September 30, 14
1156+2028. 15
1157+FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 16
1158+For activities of the Federal Emergency Management 17
1159+Agency for Federal assistance through grants, contracts, 18
1160+cooperative agreements, and other activities, 19
1161+$3,742,460,342, which shall be allocated as follows: 20
1162+(1) $530,000,000 for the State Homeland Secu-21
1163+rity Grant Program under section 2004 of the 22
1164+Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 605), of 23
1165+which $100,000,000 shall be for Operation 24
1166+Stonegarden and $15,000,000 shall be for Tribal 25
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1170+Homeland Security Grants under section 2005 of 1
1171+the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 606): 2
1172+Provided, That notwithstanding subsection (c)(4) of 3
1173+such section 2004, for fiscal year 2024, the Com-4
1174+monwealth of Puerto Rico shall make available to 5
1175+local and tribal governments amounts provided to 6
1176+the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under this para-7
1177+graph in accordance with subsection (c)(1) of such 8
1178+section 2004. 9
1179+(2) $615,000,000 for the Urban Area Security 10
1180+Initiative under section 2003 of the Homeland Secu-11
1181+rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604). 12
1182+(3) $315,000,000 for the Nonprofit Security 13
1183+Grant Program under section 2009 of the Homeland 14
1184+Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 609a), of which 15
1185+$157,500,000 is for eligible recipients located in 16
1186+high-risk urban areas that receive funding under 17
1187+section 2003 of such Act and $157,500,000 is for el-18
1188+igible recipients that are located outside such areas: 19
1189+Provided, That eligible recipients are those described 20
1190+in section 2009(b) of such Act (6 U.S.C. 609a(b)) 21
1191+or are an otherwise eligible recipient at risk of a ter-22
1192+rorist or other extremist attack. 23
1193+(4) $105,000,000 for Public Transportation Se-24
1194+curity Assistance, Railroad Security Assistance, and 25
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1198+Over-the-Road Bus Security Assistance under sec-1
1199+tions 1406, 1513, and 1532 of the Implementing 2
1200+Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 3
1201+2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135, 1163, and 1182), of which 4
1202+$10,000,000 shall be for Amtrak security and 5
1203+$2,000,000 shall be for Over-the-Road Bus Security: 6
1204+Provided, That such public transportation security 7
1205+assistance shall be provided directly to public trans-8
1206+portation agencies. 9
1207+(5) $100,000,000 for Port Security Grants in 10
1208+accordance with section 70107 of title 46, United 11
1209+States Code. 12
1210+(6) $720,000,000, to remain available until 13
1211+September 30, 2025, of which $360,000,000 shall be 14
1212+for Assistance to Firefighter Grants and 15
1213+$360,000,000 shall be for Staffing for Adequate 16
1214+Fire and Emergency Response Grants under sec-17
1215+tions 33 and 34 respectively of the Federal Fire Pre-18
1216+vention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229 19
1217+and 2229a). 20
1218+(7) $355,000,000 for emergency management 21
1219+performance grants under the National Flood Insur-22
1220+ance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Rob-23
1221+ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-24
1222+sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121), the Earthquake Haz-25
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1226+ards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701), sec-1
1227+tion 762 of title 6, United States Code, and Reorga-2
1228+nization Plan No. 3 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 3
1229+(8) $312,750,000 for necessary expenses for 4
1230+Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis, in addi-5
1231+tion to and to supplement any other sums appro-6
1232+priated under the National Flood Insurance Fund, 7
1233+and such additional sums as may be provided by 8
1234+States or other political subdivisions for cost-shared 9
1235+mapping activities under section 1360(f)(2) of the 10
12341236 National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 11
1235-4015(d)) shall be credited as offsetting collections to this 12
1236-account, to be available for flood plain management and 13
1237-flood mapping: Provided further, That in fiscal year 2024, 14
1238-no funds shall be available from the National Flood Insur-15
1239-ance Fund under section 1310 of the National Flood In-16
1240-surance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4017) in excess of— 17
1241-(1) $230,504,000 for operating expenses and 18
1242-salaries and expenses associated with flood insurance 19
1243-operations; 20
1244-(2) $1,300,000,000 for commissions and taxes 21
1245-of agents; 22
1246-(3) such sums as are necessary for interest on 23
1247-Treasury borrowings; and 24 49
1248-•HR 4367 EH
1249-(4) $175,000,000, which shall remain available 1
1250-until expended, for flood mitigation actions and for 2
1251-flood mitigation assistance under section 1366 of the 3
1252-National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4
1253-4104c), notwithstanding sections 1366(e) and 5
1254-1310(a)(7) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e), 4017): 6
1255-Provided further, That the amounts collected under section 7
1256-102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 8
1257-U.S.C. 4012a) and section 1366(e) of the National Flood 9
1258-Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e)), shall be de-10
1259-posited in the National Flood Insurance Fund to supple-11
1260-ment other amounts specified as available for section 1366 12
1261-of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, notwith-13
1262-standing section 102(f)(8), section 1366(e) of the National 14
1263-Flood Insurance Act of 1968, and paragraphs (1) through 15
1264-(3) of section 1367(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4012a(f)(8), 16
1265-4104c(e), 4104d(b)(1)–(3)): Provided further, That total 17
1266-administrative costs shall not exceed 4 percent of the total 18
1267-appropriation: Provided further, That up to $5,000,000 is 19
1268-available to carry out section 24 of the Homeowner Flood 20
1269-Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (42 U.S.C. 4033). 21
1237+4101(f)(2)), to remain available until expended. 12
1238+(9) $12,000,000 for Regional Catastrophic Pre-13
1239+paredness Grants. 14
1240+(10) $130,000,000 for the emergency food and 15
1241+shelter program under title III of the McKinney- 16
1242+Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331), 17
1243+to remain available until September 30, 2025: Pro-18
1244+vided, That not to exceed 3.5 percent shall be for 19
1245+total administrative costs. 20
1246+(11) $40,000,000 for the Next Generation 21
1247+Warning System. 22
1248+(12) $181,223,342 for Community Project 23
1249+Funding grants, which shall be for the purposes, 24
1250+and the amounts, specified in the table entitled 25
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1254+‘‘Homeland Security—Community Project Funding’’ 1
1255+in the report accompanying this Act, of which— 2
1256+(A) $65,627,263, in addition to amounts 3
1257+otherwise made available for such purpose, is 4
1258+for emergency operations center grants under 5
1259+section 614 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 6
1260+Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 7
1261+U.S.C. 5196c); and 8
1262+(B) $115,596,079, in addition to amounts 9
1263+otherwise made available for such purpose, is 10
1264+for pre-disaster mitigation grants under section 11
1265+203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 12
1266+and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 13
1267+5133(e), notwithstanding subsections (f), (g), 14
1268+and (l) of that section (42 U.S.C. 5133(f), (g), 15
1269+(l)). 16
1270+(13) $326,487,000 to sustain current oper-17
1271+ations for training, exercises, technical assistance, 18
1272+and other programs. 19
1273+DISASTER RELIEF FUND 20
1274+For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert 21
1275+T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 22
1276+(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $20,406,341,000, to remain 23
1277+available until expended, of which $20,261,000,000 shall 24
1278+be for major disasters declared pursuant to the Robert T. 25
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1282+Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 1
1283+(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and is designated by the Con-2
1284+gress as being for disaster relief pursuant to section 3
1285+251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 4
1286+Deficit Control Act of 1985. 5
1287+NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND 6
1288+For activities under the National Flood Insurance 7
1289+Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Flood Disaster 8
1290+Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the 9
1291+Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 10
1292+(Public Law 112–141, 126 Stat. 916), and the Home-11
1293+owner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (Public 12
1294+Law 113–89; 128 Stat. 1020), $239,983,000, to remain 13
1295+available until September 30, 2025, which shall be derived 14
1296+from offsetting amounts collected under section 1308(d) 15
1297+of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 16
1298+4015(d)); of which $18,917,000 shall be available for mis-17
1299+sion support associated with flood management; and of 18
1300+which $221,066,000 shall be available for flood plain man-19
1301+agement and flood mapping: Provided, That any addi-20
1302+tional fees collected pursuant to section 1308(d) of the 21
1303+National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 22
1304+4015(d)) shall be credited as offsetting collections to this 23
1305+account, to be available for flood plain management and 24
1306+flood mapping: Provided further, That in fiscal year 2024, 25
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1310+no funds shall be available from the National Flood Insur-1
1311+ance Fund under section 1310 of the National Flood In-2
1312+surance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4017) in excess of— 3
1313+(1) $230,504,000 for operating expenses and 4
1314+salaries and expenses associated with flood insurance 5
1315+operations; 6
1316+(2) $1,300,000,000 for commissions and taxes 7
1317+of agents; 8
1318+(3) such sums as are necessary for interest on 9
1319+Treasury borrowings; and 10
1320+(4) $175,000,000, which shall remain available 11
1321+until expended, for flood mitigation actions and for 12
1322+flood mitigation assistance under section 1366 of the 13
1323+National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 14
1324+4104c), notwithstanding sections 1366(e) and 15
1325+1310(a)(7) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e), 4017): 16
1326+Provided further, That the amounts collected under section 17
1327+102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 18
1328+U.S.C. 4012a) and section 1366(e) of the National Flood 19
1329+Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e)), shall be de-20
1330+posited in the National Flood Insurance Fund to supple-21
1331+ment other amounts specified as available for section 1366 22
1332+of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, notwith-23
1333+standing section 102(f)(8), section 1366(e) of the National 24
1334+Flood Insurance Act of 1968, and paragraphs (1) through 25
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1338+(3) of section 1367(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4012a(f)(8), 1
1339+4104c(e), 4104d(b)(1)–(3)): Provided further, That total 2
1340+administrative costs shall not exceed 4 percent of the total 3
1341+appropriation: Provided further, That up to $5,000,000 is 4
1342+available to carry out section 24 of the Homeowner Flood 5
1343+Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (42 U.S.C. 4033). 6
12701344 A
1271-DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 22
1272-S
1273-EC. 301. (a) The Director of the Cybersecurity and 23
1274-Infrastructure Security Agency (or the Director’s des-24
1275-ignee) shall provide the briefings to the Committees on 25 50
1276-•HR 4367 EH
1277-Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 1
1278-Senate described under the heading ‘‘Quarterly Budget 2
1279-and Staffing Briefings’’ in the explanatory statement for 3
1280-division F of Public Law 117–103 described in section 4 4
1281-in the matter preceding division A of such Public Law— 5
1282-(1) with respect to the first quarter of fiscal 6
1283-year 2024, not later than the later of 30 days after 7
1284-the date of enactment of this Act or January 30, 8
1285-2024; and 9
1286-(2) with respect to each subsequent fiscal quar-10
1287-ter in fiscal year 2024, not later than 21 days after 11
1288-the end of each such quarter. 12
1289-(b) In the event that any such briefing required dur-13
1290-ing this fiscal year under subsection (a) is not provided, 14
1291-the amount made available in title III to the Cybersecurity 15
1292-and Infrastructure Security Agency under the heading 16
1293-‘‘Operations and Support’’ shall be reduced by $50,000 17
1294-for each day of noncompliance with subsection (a), and 18
1295-the amount made available under such heading and speci-19
1296-fied in the detailed funding table in the report accom-20
1297-panying this Act for Mission Support shall be correspond-21
1298-ingly reduced by an equivalent amount. 22
1299-S
1300-EC. 302. (a) Notwithstanding section 2008(a)(12) 23
1301-of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 24
1302-609(a)(12)) or any other provision of law, not more than 25 51
1303-•HR 4367 EH
1304-5 percent of the amount of a grant made available in para-1
1305-graphs (1) through (5) under ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-2
1306-agement Agency—Federal Assistance’’, may be used by 3
1307-the recipient for expenses directly related to administra-4
1308-tion of the grant. 5
1309-(b) The authority provided in subsection (a) shall also 6
1310-apply to a state recipient for the administration of a grant 7
1311-under such paragraph (3). 8
1312-S
1313-EC. 303. Applications for grants under the heading 9
1314-‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal As-10
1315-sistance’’, for paragraphs (1) through (5), shall be made 11
1316-available to eligible applicants not later than 60 days after 12
1317-the date of enactment of this Act, eligible applicants shall 13
1318-submit applications not later than 80 days after the grant 14
1319-announcement, and the Administrator of the Federal 15
1320-Emergency Management Agency shall act within 65 days 16
1321-after the receipt of an application. 17
1322-S
1323-EC. 304. (a) Under the heading ‘‘Federal Emer-18
1324-gency Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, for 19
1325-grants under paragraphs (1) through (5) and (9), the Ad-20
1326-ministrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-21
1327-cy shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the 22
1328-House of Representatives and the Senate 5 full business 23
1329-days in advance of announcing publicly the intention of 24
1330-making an award. 25 52
1331-•HR 4367 EH
1332-(b) If any such public announcement is made before 1
1333-5 full business days have elapsed following such briefing, 2
1334-$1,000,000 of amounts appropriated by this Act for ‘‘Fed-3
1335-eral Emergency Management Agency—Operations and 4
1336-Support’’ shall be rescinded. 5
1337-S
1338-EC. 305. Under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency 6
1339-Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, for grants 7
1340-under paragraphs (1) and (2), the installation of commu-8
1341-nications towers is not considered construction of a build-9
1342-ing or other physical facility. 10
1343-S
1344-EC. 306. The reporting requirements in paragraphs 11
1345-(1) and (2) under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-12
1346-agement Agency—Disaster Relief Fund’’ in the Depart-13
1347-ment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 14
1348-(Public Law 114–4), related to reporting on the Disaster 15
1349-Relief Fund, shall be applied in fiscal year 2024 with re-16
1350-spect to budget year 2025 and current fiscal year 2024, 17
1351-respectively— 18
1352-(1) in paragraph (1) by substituting ‘‘fiscal 19
1353-year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2016’’; and 20
1354-(2) in paragraph (2) by inserting ‘‘business’’ 21
1355-after ‘‘fifth’’. 22
1356-S
1357-EC. 307. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fed-23
1358-eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assist-24
1359-ance’’, for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Re-25 53
1360-•HR 4367 EH
1361-sponse grants, the Administrator of the Federal Emer-1
1362-gency Management Agency may grant waivers from the 2
1363-requirements in subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), 3
1364-(a)(1)(E), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section 34 of the 4
1365-Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 5
1366-U.S.C. 2229a). 6
1367-S
1368-EC. 308. (a) The aggregate charges assessed during 7
1369-fiscal year 2024, as authorized in title III of the Depart-8
1370-ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-9
1371-opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 10
1372-1999 (42 U.S.C. 5196e), shall not be less than 100 per-11
1373-cent of the amounts anticipated by the Department of 12
1374-Homeland Security to be necessary for its Radiological 13
1375-Emergency Preparedness Program for the next fiscal year. 14
1376-(b) The methodology for assessment and collection of 15
1377-fees shall be fair and equitable and shall reflect costs of 16
1378-providing such services, including administrative costs of 17
1379-collecting such fees. 18
1380-(c) Such fees shall be deposited in a Radiological 19
1381-Emergency Preparedness Program account as offsetting 20
1382-collections and will become available for authorized pur-21
1383-poses on October 1, 2024, and remain available until ex-22
1384-pended. 23
1385-S
1386-EC. 309. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fed-24
1387-eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assist-25 54
1388-•HR 4367 EH
1389-ance’’, for Assistance to Firefighter Grants, the Adminis-1
1390-trator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 2
1391-may waive subsection (k) of section 33 of the Federal Fire 3
1392-Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229). 4 55
1393-•HR 4367 EH
1345+DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 7
1346+S
1347+EC. 301. (a) The Director of the Cybersecurity and 8
1348+Infrastructure Security Agency (or the Director’s des-9
1349+ignee) shall provide the briefings to the Committees on 10
1350+Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 11
1351+Senate described under the heading ‘‘Quarterly Budget 12
1352+and Staffing Briefings’’ in the explanatory statement for 13
1353+division F of Public Law 117–103 described in section 4 14
1354+in the matter preceding division A of such Public Law— 15
1355+(1) with respect to the first quarter of fiscal 16
1356+year 2024, not later than the later of 30 days after 17
1357+the date of enactment of this Act or January 30, 18
1358+2024; and 19
1359+(2) with respect to each subsequent fiscal quar-20
1360+ter in fiscal year 2024, not later than 21 days after 21
1361+the end of each such quarter. 22
1362+(b) In the event that any such briefing required dur-23
1363+ing this fiscal year under subsection (a) is not provided, 24
1364+the amount made available in title III to the Cybersecurity 25
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1368+and Infrastructure Security Agency under the heading 1
1369+‘‘Operations and Support’’ shall be reduced by $50,000 2
1370+for each day of noncompliance with subsection (a), and 3
1371+the amount made available under such heading and speci-4
1372+fied in the detailed funding table in the report accom-5
1373+panying this Act for Mission Support shall be correspond-6
1374+ingly reduced by an equivalent amount. 7
1375+S
1376+EC. 302. (a) Notwithstanding section 2008(a)(12) 8
1377+of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 9
1378+609(a)(12)) or any other provision of law, not more than 10
1379+5 percent of the amount of a grant made available in para-11
1380+graphs (1) through (5) under ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-12
1381+agement Agency—Federal Assistance’’, may be used by 13
1382+the recipient for expenses directly related to administra-14
1383+tion of the grant. 15
1384+(b) The authority provided in subsection (a) shall also 16
1385+apply to a state recipient for the administration of a grant 17
1386+under such paragraph (3). 18
1387+S
1388+EC. 303. Applications for grants under the heading 19
1389+‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal As-20
1390+sistance’’, for paragraphs (1) through (5), shall be made 21
1391+available to eligible applicants not later than 60 days after 22
1392+the date of enactment of this Act, eligible applicants shall 23
1393+submit applications not later than 80 days after the grant 24
1394+announcement, and the Administrator of the Federal 25
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1398+Emergency Management Agency shall act within 65 days 1
1399+after the receipt of an application. 2
1400+S
1401+EC. 304. (a) Under the heading ‘‘Federal Emer-3
1402+gency Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, for 4
1403+grants under paragraphs (1) through (5) and (9), the Ad-5
1404+ministrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-6
1405+cy shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the 7
1406+House of Representatives and the Senate 5 full business 8
1407+days in advance of announcing publicly the intention of 9
1408+making an award. 10
1409+(b) If any such public announcement is made before 11
1410+5 full business days have elapsed following such briefing, 12
1411+$1,000,000 of amounts appropriated by this Act for ‘‘Fed-13
1412+eral Emergency Management Agency—Operations and 14
1413+Support’’ shall be rescinded. 15
1414+S
1415+EC. 305. Under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency 16
1416+Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, for grants 17
1417+under paragraphs (1) and (2), the installation of commu-18
1418+nications towers is not considered construction of a build-19
1419+ing or other physical facility. 20
1420+S
1421+EC. 306. The reporting requirements in paragraphs 21
1422+(1) and (2) under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-22
1423+agement Agency—Disaster Relief Fund’’ in the Depart-23
1424+ment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 24
1425+(Public Law 114–4), related to reporting on the Disaster 25
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1429+Relief Fund, shall be applied in fiscal year 2024 with re-1
1430+spect to budget year 2025 and current fiscal year 2024, 2
1431+respectively— 3
1432+(1) in paragraph (1) by substituting ‘‘fiscal 4
1433+year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2016’’; and 5
1434+(2) in paragraph (2) by inserting ‘‘business’’ 6
1435+after ‘‘fifth’’. 7
1436+S
1437+EC. 307. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fed-8
1438+eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assist-9
1439+ance’’, for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Re-10
1440+sponse grants, the Administrator of the Federal Emer-11
1441+gency Management Agency may grant waivers from the 12
1442+requirements in subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), 13
1443+(a)(1)(E), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section 34 of the 14
1444+Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 15
1445+U.S.C. 2229a). 16
1446+S
1447+EC. 308. (a) The aggregate charges assessed during 17
1448+fiscal year 2024, as authorized in title III of the Depart-18
1449+ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-19
1450+opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 20
1451+1999 (42 U.S.C. 5196e), shall not be less than 100 per-21
1452+cent of the amounts anticipated by the Department of 22
1453+Homeland Security to be necessary for its Radiological 23
1454+Emergency Preparedness Program for the next fiscal year. 24
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1458+(b) The methodology for assessment and collection of 1
1459+fees shall be fair and equitable and shall reflect costs of 2
1460+providing such services, including administrative costs of 3
1461+collecting such fees. 4
1462+(c) Such fees shall be deposited in a Radiological 5
1463+Emergency Preparedness Program account as offsetting 6
1464+collections and will become available for authorized pur-7
1465+poses on October 1, 2024, and remain available until ex-8
1466+pended. 9
1467+S
1468+EC. 309. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fed-10
1469+eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assist-11
1470+ance’’, for Assistance to Firefighter Grants, the Adminis-12
1471+trator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 13
1472+may waive subsection (k) of section 33 of the Federal Fire 14
1473+Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229). 15
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13941477 TITLE IV 1
13951478 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND 2
13961479 SERVICES 3
13971480 U.S. C
13981481 ITIZENSHIP ANDIMMIGRATIONSERVICES 4
13991482 OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 5
14001483 For necessary expenses of U.S. Citizenship and Im-6
14011484 migration Services for operations and support of the E- 7
14021485 Verify Program, $111,865,000: Provided, That such 8
14031486 amounts shall be in addition to any other amounts made 9
14041487 available for such purposes, and shall not be construed to 10
14051488 require any reduction of any fee described in section 11
14061489 286(m) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 12
14071490 1356(m)). 13
14081491 F
14091492 EDERALLAWENFORCEMENTTRAININGCENTERS 14
14101493 OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 15
14111494 For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-16
14121495 ment Training Centers for operations and support, includ-17
14131496 ing the purchase of not to exceed 117 vehicles for police- 18
14141497 type use and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services 19
14151498 as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 20
14161499 Code, $361,398,000, of which $66,665,000 shall remain 21
14171500 available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not 22
14181501 to exceed $7,180 shall be for official reception and rep-23
1419-resentation expenses. 24 56
1420-•HR 4367 EH
1502+resentation expenses. 24
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14211506 PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 1
14221507 For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-2
14231508 ment Training Centers for procurement, construction, and 3
14241509 improvements, $20,100,000, to remain available until Sep-4
14251510 tember 30, 2028, for acquisition of necessary additional 5
14261511 real property and facilities, construction and ongoing 6
14271512 maintenance, facility improvements and related expenses 7
14281513 of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. 8
14291514 S
14301515 CIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGYDIRECTORATE 9
14311516 OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 10
14321517 For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-11
14331518 nology Directorate for operations and support, including 12
14341519 the purchase or lease of not to exceed 5 vehicles, 13
14351520 $333,632,000, of which $206,548,000 shall remain avail-14
14361521 able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-15
14371522 ceed $10,000 shall be for official reception and representa-16
14381523 tion expenses. 17
14391524 PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 18
14401525 For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-19
14411526 nology Directorate for procurement, construction, and im-20
14421527 provements, $58,466,000, to remain available until Sep-21
14431528 tember 30, 2028. 22
14441529 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 23
14451530 For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-24
1446-nology Directorate for research and development, 25 57
1447-•HR 4367 EH
1448-$444,545,000 (increased by $3,000,000) (reduced by 1
1449-$10,000,000) (reduced by $20,000,000) (reduced by 2
1450-$20,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 3
1451-2026. 4
1531+nology Directorate for research and development, 25
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1535+$444,545,000, to remain available until September 30, 1
1536+2026. 2
14521537 C
1453-OUNTERINGWEAPONS OFMASSDESTRUCTIONOFFICE 5
1454-OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 6
1455-For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 7
1456-of Mass Destruction Office for operations and support, 8
1457-$164,315,000, of which $69,364,000 shall remain avail-9
1458-able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-10
1459-ceed $2,250 shall be for official reception and representa-11
1460-tion expenses. 12
1461-PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 13
1462-For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 14
1463-of Mass Destruction Office for procurement, construction, 15
1464-and improvements, $42,338,000, to remain available until 16
1465-September 30, 2026. 17
1466-RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 18
1467-For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 19
1468-of Mass Destruction Office for research and development, 20
1469-$64,201,000, to remain available until September 30, 21
1470-2026. 22
1471-FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 23
1472-For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 24
1473-of Mass Destruction Office for Federal assistance through 25 58
1474-•HR 4367 EH
1475-grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other ac-1
1476-tivities, $142,885,000, to remain available until Sep-2
1477-tember 30, 2026. 3
1538+OUNTERINGWEAPONS OFMASSDESTRUCTIONOFFICE 3
1539+OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 4
1540+For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 5
1541+of Mass Destruction Office for operations and support, 6
1542+$164,315,000, of which $69,364,000 shall remain avail-7
1543+able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-8
1544+ceed $2,250 shall be for official reception and representa-9
1545+tion expenses. 10
1546+PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 11
1547+For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 12
1548+of Mass Destruction Office for procurement, construction, 13
1549+and improvements, $42,338,000, to remain available until 14
1550+September 30, 2026. 15
1551+RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 16
1552+For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 17
1553+of Mass Destruction Office for research and development, 18
1554+$64,201,000, to remain available until September 30, 19
1555+2026. 20
1556+FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 21
1557+For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 22
1558+of Mass Destruction Office for Federal assistance through 23
1559+grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other ac-24
1560+VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Jun 28, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4367.RH H4367
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1563+tivities, $142,885,000, to remain available until Sep-1
1564+tember 30, 2026. 2
14781565 A
1479-DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 4
1480-S
1481-EC. 401. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 5
1482-of law, funds otherwise made available to U.S. Citizenship 6
1483-and Immigration Services may be used to acquire, operate, 7
1484-equip, and dispose of up to 5 vehicles, for replacement 8
1485-only, for areas where the Administrator of General Serv-9
1486-ices does not provide vehicles for lease. 10
1487-(b) The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 11
1488-Services may authorize employees who are assigned to 12
1489-those areas to use such vehicles to travel between the em-13
1490-ployees’ residences and places of employment. 14
1491-S
1492-EC. 402. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 15
1493-may be used to process or approve a competition under 16
1494-Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 for serv-17
1495-ices provided by employees (including employees serving 18
1496-on a temporary or term basis) of U.S. Citizenship and Im-19
1497-migration Services of the Department of Homeland Secu-20
1498-rity who are known as Immigration Information Officers, 21
1499-Immigration Service Analysts, Contact Representatives, 22
1500-Investigative Assistants, or Immigration Services Officers. 23
1501-S
1502-EC. 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of 24
1503-law, any Federal funds made available to U.S. Citizenship 25 59
1504-•HR 4367 EH
1505-and Immigration Services may be used for the collection 1
1506-and use of biometrics taken at a U.S. Citizenship and Im-2
1507-migration Services Application Support Center that is 3
1508-overseen virtually by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 4
1509-Services personnel using appropriate technology. 5
1510-S
1511-EC. 404. None of the funds appropriated or other-6
1512-wise made available by this Act may be made available 7
1513-to implement, administer, or enforce the rule entitled 8
1514-‘‘Procedures or Credible Fear Screening and Consider-9
1515-ation of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Pro-10
1516-tection Claims by Asylum Officers’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 18078). 11
1517-S
1518-EC. 405. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
1519-wise made available by this Act may be made available 13
1520-to issue any employment authorization document or simi-14
1521-lar document to any alien whose application for asylum 15
1522-in the United States has been denied, or who is convicted 16
1523-of a Federal or State crime while his or her application 17
1524-for asylum in the United States is pending. 18
1525-S
1526-EC. 406. Notwithstanding the numerical limitation 19
1527-set forth in section 214(g)(1)(B) of the Immigration and 20
1528-Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(1)(B)), the Secretary 21
1529-of Homeland Security, after consultation with the Sec-22
1530-retary of Labor, and upon determining that the needs of 23
1531-American businesses cannot be satisfied during fiscal year 24
1532-2024 with United States workers who are willing, quali-25 60
1533-•HR 4367 EH
1534-fied, and able to perform temporary nonagricultural labor, 1
1535-may increase the total number of aliens who may receive 2
1536-a visa under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of such Act (8 3
1537-U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b)) in such fiscal year above 4
1538-such limitation by not more than the highest number of 5
1539-H–2B nonimmigrants who participated in the H–2B re-6
1540-turning worker program in any fiscal year in which return-7
1541-ing workers were exempt from such numerical limitation. 8
1542-S
1543-EC. 407. Notwithstanding section 286(n) of the Im-9
1544-migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(n)), the Di-10
1545-rector of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may 11
1546-use not more than $5,000 of the amounts deposited in 12
1547-the Immigration Examinations Fee Account for official re-13
1548-ception and representation expenses in fiscal year 2024. 14
1549-S
1550-EC. 408. The Director of the Federal Law Enforce-15
1551-ment Training Centers is authorized to distribute funds 16
1552-to Federal law enforcement agencies for expenses incurred 17
1553-participating in training accreditation. 18
1554-S
1555-EC. 409. The Federal Law Enforcement Training 19
1556-Accreditation Board, including representatives from the 20
1557-Federal law enforcement community and non-Federal ac-21
1558-creditation experts involved in law enforcement training, 22
1559-shall lead the Federal law enforcement training accredita-23
1560-tion process to continue the implementation of measuring 24 61
1561-•HR 4367 EH
1562-and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law 1
1563-enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. 2
1564-S
1565-EC. 410. (a) The Director of the Federal Law En-3
1566-forcement Training Centers may accept transfers to its 4
1567-‘‘Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’’ account 5
1568-from Government agencies requesting the construction of 6
1569-special use facilities, as authorized by the Economy Act 7
1570-(31 U.S.C. 1535(b)). 8
1571-(b) The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers 9
1572-shall maintain administrative control and ownership upon 10
1573-completion of such facilities. 11
1574-S
1575-EC. 411. The functions of the Federal Law Enforce-12
1576-ment Training Centers instructor staff shall be classified 13
1577-as inherently governmental for purposes of the Federal 14
1578-Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 15
1579-note). 16 62
1580-•HR 4367 EH
1566+DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 3
1567+S
1568+EC. 401. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 4
1569+of law, funds otherwise made available to U.S. Citizenship 5
1570+and Immigration Services may be used to acquire, operate, 6
1571+equip, and dispose of up to 5 vehicles, for replacement 7
1572+only, for areas where the Administrator of General Serv-8
1573+ices does not provide vehicles for lease. 9
1574+(b) The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 10
1575+Services may authorize employees who are assigned to 11
1576+those areas to use such vehicles to travel between the em-12
1577+ployees’ residences and places of employment. 13
1578+S
1579+EC. 402. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 14
1580+may be used to process or approve a competition under 15
1581+Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 for serv-16
1582+ices provided by employees (including employees serving 17
1583+on a temporary or term basis) of U.S. Citizenship and Im-18
1584+migration Services of the Department of Homeland Secu-19
1585+rity who are known as Immigration Information Officers, 20
1586+Immigration Service Analysts, Contact Representatives, 21
1587+Investigative Assistants, or Immigration Services Officers. 22
1588+S
1589+EC. 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of 23
1590+law, any Federal funds made available to U.S. Citizenship 24
1591+and Immigration Services may be used for the collection 25
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1595+and use of biometrics taken at a U.S. Citizenship and Im-1
1596+migration Services Application Support Center that is 2
1597+overseen virtually by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 3
1598+Services personnel using appropriate technology. 4
1599+S
1600+EC. 404. None of the funds appropriated or other-5
1601+wise made available by this Act may be made available 6
1602+to implement, administer, or enforce the rule entitled 7
1603+‘‘Procedures or Credible Fear Screening and Consider-8
1604+ation of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Pro-9
1605+tection Claims by Asylum Officers’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 18078). 10
1606+S
1607+EC. 405. None of the funds appropriated or other-11
1608+wise made available by this Act may be made available 12
1609+to issue any employment authorization document or simi-13
1610+lar document to any alien whose application for asylum 14
1611+in the United States has been denied, or who is convicted 15
1612+of a Federal or State crime while his or her application 16
1613+for asylum in the United States is pending. 17
1614+S
1615+EC. 406. (a) Section 214(g)(9)(A) of the Immigra-18
1616+tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(9)(A)) is 19
1617+amended to read as follows: ‘‘(A) Subject to subpara-20
1618+graphs (B) and (C), an alien shall be considered a return-21
1619+ing worker and shall not again be counted toward the nu-22
1620+merical limitation of paragraph (1)(B) during fiscal year 23
1621+2024 if such alien has already been counted toward such 24
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1625+numerical limitation during any of the 3 preceding fiscal 1
1626+years.’’. 2
1627+(b) The amendment made by this section shall apply 3
1628+on and after October 1, 2023. 4
1629+S
1630+EC. 407. In fiscal year 2024, nonimmigrants shall 5
1631+be admitted to the United States under section 6
1632+101(a)(l5)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 7
1633+Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a)) to perform agricul-8
1634+tural labor or services, without regard to whether such 9
1635+labor is, or services are, of a temporary or seasonal nature. 10
1636+S
1637+EC. 408. Notwithstanding section 286(n) of the Im-11
1638+migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(n)), the Di-12
1639+rector of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may 13
1640+use not more than $5,000 of the amounts deposited in 14
1641+the Immigration Examinations Fee Account for official re-15
1642+ception and representation expenses in fiscal year 2024. 16
1643+S
1644+EC. 409. The Director of the Federal Law Enforce-17
1645+ment Training Centers is authorized to distribute funds 18
1646+to Federal law enforcement agencies for expenses incurred 19
1647+participating in training accreditation. 20
1648+S
1649+EC. 410. The Federal Law Enforcement Training 21
1650+Accreditation Board, including representatives from the 22
1651+Federal law enforcement community and non-Federal ac-23
1652+creditation experts involved in law enforcement training, 24
1653+shall lead the Federal law enforcement training accredita-25
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1657+tion process to continue the implementation of measuring 1
1658+and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law 2
1659+enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. 3
1660+S
1661+EC. 411. (a) The Director of the Federal Law En-4
1662+forcement Training Centers may accept transfers to its 5
1663+‘‘Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’’ account 6
1664+from Government agencies requesting the construction of 7
1665+special use facilities, as authorized by the Economy Act 8
1666+(31 U.S.C. 1535(b)). 9
1667+(b) The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers 10
1668+shall maintain administrative control and ownership upon 11
1669+completion of such facilities. 12
1670+S
1671+EC. 412. The functions of the Federal Law Enforce-13
1672+ment Training Centers instructor staff shall be classified 14
1673+as inherently governmental for purposes of the Federal 15
1674+Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 16
1675+note). 17
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15811679 TITLE V 1
15821680 GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
15831681 (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 3
15841682 S
15851683 EC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in 4
15861684 this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 5
15871685 current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 6
15881686 S
15891687 EC. 502. Subject to the requirements of section 503 7
15901688 of this Act, the unexpended balances of prior appropria-8
15911689 tions provided for activities in this Act may be transferred 9
15921690 to appropriation accounts for such activities established 10
15931691 pursuant to this Act, may be merged with funds in the 11
15941692 applicable established accounts, and thereafter may be ac-12
15951693 counted for as one fund for the same time period as origi-13
15961694 nally enacted. 14
15971695 S
15981696 EC. 503. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 15
15991697 provided by previous appropriations Acts to the compo-16
16001698 nents in or transferred to the Department of Homeland 17
16011699 Security that remain available for obligation or expendi-18
16021700 ture in fiscal year 2024, or provided from any accounts 19
16031701 in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collec-20
16041702 tion of fees available to the components funded by this 21
16051703 Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 22
16061704 through a reprogramming of funds that— 23
16071705 (1) creates or eliminates a program, project, or 24
1608-activity, or increases funds for any program, project, 25 63
1609-•HR 4367 EH
1706+activity, or increases funds for any program, project, 25
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16101710 or activity for which funds have been denied or re-1
16111711 stricted by the Congress; 2
16121712 (2) contracts out any function or activity pres-3
16131713 ently performed by Federal employees or any new 4
16141714 function or activity proposed to be performed by 5
16151715 Federal employees in the President’s budget pro-6
16161716 posal for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of 7
16171717 Homeland Security; 8
16181718 (3) augments funding for existing programs, 9
16191719 projects, or activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 10
16201720 percent, whichever is less; 11
16211721 (4) reduces funding for any program, project, 12
16221722 or activity, or numbers of personnel, by 10 percent 13
16231723 or more; or 14
16241724 (5) results from any general savings from a re-15
16251725 duction in personnel that would result in a change 16
16261726 in funding levels for programs, projects, or activities 17
16271727 as approved by the Congress. 18
16281728 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Committees 19
16291729 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 20
16301730 Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of such 21
16311731 reprogramming. 22
16321732 (c) Up to 5 percent of any appropriation made avail-23
16331733 able for the current fiscal year for the Department of 24
1634-Homeland Security by this Act or provided by previous 25 64
1635-•HR 4367 EH
1734+Homeland Security by this Act or provided by previous 25
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16361738 appropriations Acts may be transferred between such ap-1
16371739 propriations if the Committees on Appropriations of the 2
16381740 House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at 3
16391741 least 30 days in advance of such transfer, but no such 4
16401742 appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 5
16411743 shall be increased by more than 10 percent by such trans-6
16421744 fer. 7
16431745 (d) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c), no 8
16441746 funds shall be reprogrammed within or transferred be-9
16451747 tween appropriations based upon an initial notification 10
16461748 provided after June 30, except in extraordinary cir-11
16471749 cumstances that imminently threaten the safety of human 12
16481750 life or the protection of property. 13
16491751 (e) The notification thresholds and procedures set 14
16501752 forth in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall apply to 15
16511753 any use of deobligated balances of funds provided in pre-16
16521754 vious Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 17
16531755 Acts that remain available for obligation in the current 18
16541756 year. 19
16551757 (f) Notwithstanding subsection (c), the Secretary of 20
16561758 Homeland Security may transfer to the fund established 21
16571759 by 8 U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 from appro-22
16581760 priations available to the Department of Homeland Secu-23
1659-rity: Provided, That the Secretary shall notify the Commit-24 65
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1761+rity: Provided, That the Secretary shall notify the Commit-24
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16611765 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 1
16621766 and the Senate at least 5 days in advance of such transfer. 2
16631767 S
16641768 EC. 504. (a) Section 504 of the Department of 3
16651769 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017 (division F 4
16661770 of Public Law 115–31), related to the operations of a 5
16671771 working capital fund, shall apply with respect to funds 6
16681772 made available in this Act in the same manner as such 7
16691773 section applied to funds made available in that Act. 8
16701774 (b) Funds from such working capital fund may be 9
16711775 obligated and expended in anticipation of reimbursements 10
16721776 from components of the Department of Homeland Secu-11
16731777 rity. 12
16741778 S
16751779 EC. 505. (a) Except as otherwise specifically pro-13
16761780 vided by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated bal-14
16771781 ances remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2024, 15
16781782 as recorded in the financial records at the time of a re-16
16791783 programming notification, but not later than June 30, 17
16801784 2025, from appropriations for ‘‘Operations and Support’’ 18
16811785 for fiscal year 2024 in this Act shall remain available 19
16821786 through September 30, 2025, in the account and for the 20
16831787 purposes for which the appropriations were provided. 21
16841788 (b) Prior to the obligation of such funds, a notifica-22
16851789 tion shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropria-23
16861790 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate in 24
1687-accordance with section 503 of this Act. 25 66
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1791+accordance with section 503 of this Act. 25
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16891795 SEC. 506. (a) Funds made available by this Act for 1
16901796 intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically author-2
16911797 ized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the 3
16921798 National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fis-4
16931799 cal year 2024 until the enactment of an Act authorizing 5
16941800 intelligence activities for fiscal year 2024. 6
16951801 (b) Amounts described in subsection (a) made avail-7
16961802 able for ‘‘Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Aware-8
16971803 ness—Operations and Support’’ that exceed the amounts 9
16981804 in such authorization for such account shall be transferred 10
16991805 to and merged with amounts made available under the 11
17001806 heading ‘‘Management Directorate—Operations and Sup-12
17011807 port’’. 13
17021808 (c) Prior to the obligation of any funds transferred 14
17031809 under subsection (b), the Management Directorate shall 15
17041810 brief the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 16
17051811 Representatives and the Senate on a plan for the use of 17
17061812 such funds. 18
17071813 S
17081814 EC. 507. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 19
17091815 or the designee of the Secretary, shall notify the Commit-20
17101816 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 21
17111817 and the Senate at least 3 full business days in advance 22
17121818 of— 23
17131819 (1) making or awarding a grant allocation or 24
1714-grant in excess of $1,000,000; 25 67
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1820+grant in excess of $1,000,000; 25
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17161824 (2) making or awarding a contract, other trans-1
17171825 action agreement, or task or delivery order on a 2
17181826 multiple award contract, or to issue a letter of intent 3
17191827 totaling in excess of $4,000,000; 4
17201828 (3) awarding a task or delivery order requiring 5
17211829 an obligation of funds in an amount greater than 6
17221830 $10,000,000 from multi-year funds; 7
17231831 (4) making a sole-source grant award; or 8
17241832 (5) announcing publicly the intention to make 9
17251833 or award items under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4), 10
17261834 including a contract covered by the Federal Acquisi-11
17271835 tion Regulation. 12
17281836 (b) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 13
17291837 that compliance with this section would pose a substantial 14
17301838 risk to human life, health, or safety, an award may be 15
17311839 made without notification, and the Secretary shall notify 16
17321840 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-17
17331841 resentatives and the Senate not later than 5 full business 18
17341842 days after such an award is made or letter issued. 19
17351843 (c) A notification under this section— 20
17361844 (1) may not involve funds that are not available 21
17371845 for obligation; and 22
17381846 (2) shall include the amount of the award; the 23
1739-fiscal year for which the funds for the award were 24 68
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1847+fiscal year for which the funds for the award were 24
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17411851 appropriated; the type of contract; and the account 1
17421852 from which the funds are being drawn. 2
17431853 S
17441854 EC. 508. Notwithstanding any other provision of 3
17451855 law, no agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any ad-4
17461856 ditional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing 5
17471857 locations, to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal 6
17481858 law enforcement training without advance notification to 7
17491859 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-8
17501860 resentatives and the Senate, except that the Federal Law 9
17511861 Enforcement Training Centers is authorized to obtain the 10
17521862 temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, 11
17531863 or other agreement for training that cannot be accommo-12
17541864 dated in existing Centers’ facilities. 13
17551865 S
17561866 EC. 509. None of the funds appropriated or other-14
17571867 wise made available by this Act may be used for expenses 15
17581868 for any construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition 16
17591869 project for which a prospectus otherwise required under 17
17601870 chapter 33 of title 40, United States Code, has not been 18
17611871 approved, except that necessary funds may be expended 19
17621872 for each project for required expenses for the development 20
17631873 of a proposed prospectus. 21
17641874 S
17651875 EC. 510. Sections 522 and 530 of the Department 22
17661876 of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (division 23
17671877 E of Public Law 110–161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 2074) shall 24
1768-apply with respect to funds made available in this Act in 25 69
1769-•HR 4367 EH
1878+apply with respect to funds made available in this Act in 25
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17701882 the same manner as such sections applied to funds made 1
17711883 available in that Act. 2
17721884 S
17731885 EC. 511. (a) None of the funds made available in 3
17741886 this Act may be used in contravention of the applicable 4
17751887 provisions of the Buy American Act. 5
17761888 (b) For purposes of subsection (a), the term ‘‘Buy 6
17771889 American Act’’ means chapter 83 of title 41, United 7
17781890 States Code. 8
17791891 S
17801892 EC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 9
17811893 Act may be used to amend the oath of allegiance required 10
17821894 by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 11
17831895 (8 U.S.C. 1448). 12
17841896 S
17851897 EC. 513. None of the funds provided or otherwise 13
17861898 made available in this Act shall be available to carry out 14
17871899 section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 15
17881900 U.S.C. 452) unless explicitly authorized by the Congress. 16
17891901 S
17901902 EC. 514. None of the funds made available in this 17
17911903 Act may be used for planning, testing, piloting, or devel-18
17921904 oping a national identification card. 19
17931905 S
17941906 EC. 515. Any official that is required by this Act 20
17951907 to report or to certify to the Committees on Appropria-21
17961908 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate may 22
17971909 not delegate such authority to perform that act unless spe-23
1798-cifically authorized herein. 24 70
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1910+cifically authorized herein. 24
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18001914 SEC. 516. None of the funds made available in this 1
18011915 Act may be used for first-class travel by the employees 2
18021916 of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 3
18031917 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Fed-4
18041918 eral Regulations. 5
18051919 S
18061920 EC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 6
18071921 Act may be used to employ workers described in section 7
18081922 274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 8
18091923 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 9
18101924 S
18111925 EC. 518. Notwithstanding any other provision of 10
18121926 this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 11
18131927 made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 12
18141928 incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 13
18151929 judged to be below satisfactory performance or perform-14
18161930 ance that does not meet the basic requirements of a con-15
18171931 tract. 16
18181932 S
18191933 EC. 519. (a) None of the funds made available in 17
18201934 this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 18
18211935 network unless such network blocks the viewing, 19
18221936 downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 20
18231937 (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 21
18241938 funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, territorial, 22
18251939 or local law enforcement agency or any other entity car-23
18261940 rying out criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudica-24
1827-tion activities. 25 71
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18291945 SEC. 520. None of the funds made available in this 1
18301946 Act may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to 2
18311947 facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-3
18321948 vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-4
18331949 pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless 5
18341950 law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-6
18351951 ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 7
18361952 S
18371953 EC. 521. (a) None of the funds made available in 8
18381954 this Act may be used to pay for the travel to or attendance 9
18391955 of more than 50 employees of a single component of the 10
18401956 Department of Homeland Security, who are stationed in 11
18411957 the United States, at a single international conference un-12
18421958 less the Secretary of Homeland Security, or a designee, 13
18431959 determines that such attendance is in the national interest 14
18441960 and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 15
18451961 House of Representatives and the Senate within at least 16
18461962 10 days of that determination and the basis for that deter-17
18471963 mination. 18
18481964 (b) For purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-19
18491965 national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring 20
18501966 outside of the United States attended by representatives 21
18511967 of the United States Government and of foreign govern-22
18521968 ments, international organizations, or nongovernmental 23
1853-organizations. 24 72
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18551973 (c) The total cost to the Department of Homeland 1
18561974 Security of any such conference shall not exceed $500,000. 2
18571975 (d) Employees who attend a conference virtually 3
18581976 without travel away from their permanent duty station 4
18591977 within the United States shall not be counted for purposes 5
18601978 of this section, and the prohibition contained in this sec-6
18611979 tion shall not apply to payments for the costs of attend-7
18621980 ance for such employees. 8
18631981 S
18641982 EC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 9
18651983 Act may be used to reimburse any Federal department 10
18661984 or agency for its participation in a National Special Secu-11
18671985 rity Event. 12
18681986 S
18691987 EC. 523. (a) None of the funds made available to 13
18701988 the Department of Homeland Security by this or any other 14
18711989 Act may be obligated for the implementation of any struc-15
18721990 tural pay reform or the introduction of any new position 16
18731991 classification that will affect more than 100 full-time posi-17
18741992 tions or costs more than $5,000,000 in a single year be-18
18751993 fore the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date 19
18761994 on which the Secretary of Homeland Security submits to 20
18771995 Congress a notification that includes— 21
18781996 (1) the number of full-time positions affected by 22
1879-such change; 23 73
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18812001 (2) funding required for such change for the 1
18822002 current fiscal year and through the Future Years 2
18832003 Homeland Security Program; 3
18842004 (3) justification for such change; and 4
18852005 (4) for a structural pay reform, an analysis of 5
18862006 compensation alternatives to such change that were 6
18872007 considered by the Department. 7
18882008 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to such change if— 8
18892009 (1) it was proposed in the President’s budget 9
18902010 proposal for the fiscal year funded by this Act; and 10
18912011 (2) funds for such change have not been explic-11
18922012 itly denied or restricted in this Act. 12
18932013 S
18942014 EC. 524. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-13
18952015 able in this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 14
18962016 post on the public website of that agency any report re-15
18972017 quired to be submitted by the Committees on Appropria-16
18982018 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate in 17
18992019 this Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency 18
19002020 that it shall serve the national interest. 19
19012021 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 20
19022022 (1) the public posting of the report com-21
19032023 promises homeland or national security; or 22
19042024 (2) the report contains proprietary information. 23
19052025 (c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 24
1906-do so only after such report has been made available to 25 74
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19082030 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-1
19092031 resentatives and the Senate for not less than 45 days ex-2
19102032 cept as otherwise specified in law. 3
19112033 S
19122034 EC. 525. (a) Funding provided in this Act for ‘‘Op-4
19132035 erations and Support’’ may be used for minor procure-5
19142036 ment, construction, and improvements. 6
19152037 (b) For purposes of subsection (a), ‘‘minor’’ refers 7
19162038 to end items with a unit cost of $250,000 or less for per-8
19172039 sonal property, and $2,000,000 or less for real property. 9
19182040 S
19192041 EC. 526. The authority provided by section 532 of 10
19202042 the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 11
19212043 Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141) regarding primary and 12
19222044 secondary schooling of dependents shall continue in effect 13
19232045 during fiscal year 2024. 14
19242046 S
19252047 EC. 527. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-15
19262048 erwise made available to the Department of Homeland Se-16
19272049 curity by this Act may be used to prevent any of the fol-17
19282050 lowing persons from entering, for the purpose of con-18
19292051 ducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the De-19
19302052 partment of Homeland Security used to detain or other-20
19312053 wise house aliens, or to make any temporary modification 21
19322054 at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed 22
19332055 by a visiting Member of Congress or such designated em-23
19342056 ployee, compared to what would be observed in the absence 24
1935-of such modification: 25 75
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19372061 (1) A Member of Congress. 1
19382062 (2) An employee of the United States House of 2
19392063 Representatives or the United States Senate des-3
19402064 ignated by such a Member for the purposes of this 4
19412065 section. 5
19422066 (b) Nothing in this section may be construed to re-6
19432067 quire a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the 7
19442068 intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a) for 8
19452069 the purpose of conducting oversight. 9
19462070 (c) With respect to individuals described in subsection 10
19472071 (a)(2), the Department of Homeland Security may require 11
19482072 that a request be made at least 24 hours in advance of 12
19492073 an intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a). 13
19502074 S
19512075 EC. 528. (a) For an additional amount for ‘‘Federal 14
19522076 Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, 15
19532077 $3,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, 16
19542078 exclusively for providing reimbursement of extraordinary 17
19552079 law enforcement or other emergency personnel costs for 18
19562080 protection activities directly and demonstrably associated 19
19572081 with any residence of the President that is designated or 20
19582082 identified to be secured by the United States Secret Serv-21
19592083 ice. 22
19602084 (b) Subsections (b) through (f) of section 534 of the 23
19612085 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 24
1962-2018 (Public Law 115–141), shall be applied with respect 25 76
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2086+2018 (Public Law 115–141), shall be applied with respect 25
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19642090 to amounts made available by subsection (a) of this section 1
19652091 by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2024’’ for ‘‘October 1, 2018’’ 2
19662092 and ‘‘October 1, 2023’’ for ‘‘October 1, 2017’’. 3
19672093 S
19682094 EC. 529. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 4
19692095 none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 5
19702096 to place restraints on a woman in the custody of the De-6
19712097 partment of Homeland Security (including during trans-7
19722098 port, in a detention facility, or at an outside medical facil-8
19732099 ity) who is pregnant or in post-delivery recuperation. 9
19742100 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 10
19752101 pregnant woman if— 11
19762102 (1) an appropriate official of the Department of 12
19772103 Homeland Security makes an individualized deter-13
19782104 mination that the woman— 14
19792105 (A) is a serious flight risk, and such risk 15
19802106 cannot be prevented by other means; or 16
19812107 (B) poses an immediate and serious threat 17
19822108 to harm herself or others that cannot be pre-18
19832109 vented by other means; or 19
19842110 (2) a medical professional responsible for the 20
19852111 care of the pregnant woman determines that the use 21
19862112 of therapeutic restraints is appropriate for the med-22
19872113 ical safety of the woman. 23
19882114 (c) If a pregnant woman is restrained pursuant to 24
1989-subsection (b), only the safest and least restrictive re-25 77
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19912119 straints, as determined by the appropriate medical profes-1
19922120 sional treating the woman, may be used. In no case may 2
19932121 restraints be used on a woman who is in active labor or 3
19942122 delivery, and in no case may a pregnant woman be re-4
19952123 strained in a face-down position with four-point restraints, 5
19962124 on her back, or in a restraint belt that constricts the area 6
19972125 of the pregnancy. A pregnant woman who is immobilized 7
19982126 by restraints shall be positioned, to the maximum extent 8
19992127 feasible, on her left side. 9
20002128 S
20012129 EC. 530. (a) None of the funds made available by 10
20022130 this Act may be used to destroy any document, recording, 11
20032131 or other record pertaining to any— 12
20042132 (1) death of, 13
20052133 (2) potential sexual assault or abuse per-14
20062134 petrated against, or 15
20072135 (3) allegation of abuse, criminal activity, or dis-16
20082136 ruption committed by 17
20092137 an individual held in the custody of the Department of 18
20102138 Homeland Security. 19
20112139 (b) The records referred to in subsection (a) shall be 20
20122140 made available, in accordance with applicable laws and 21
20132141 regulations, and Federal rules governing disclosure in liti-22
20142142 gation, to an individual who has been charged with a 23
2015-crime, been placed into segregation, or otherwise punished 24 78
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20172147 as a result of an allegation described in paragraph (3), 1
20182148 upon the request of such individual. 2
20192149 S
20202150 EC. 531. Section 519 of division F of Public Law 3
20212151 114–113, regarding a prohibition on funding for any posi-4
20222152 tion designated as a Principal Federal Official, shall apply 5
20232153 with respect to any Federal funds in the same manner 6
20242154 as such section applied to funds made available in that 7
20252155 Act. 8
20262156 S
20272157 EC. 532. (a) Not later than 10 days after the date 9
20282158 on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is 10
20292159 submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 11
20302160 31, United States Code, the Under Secretary for Manage-12
20312161 ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Commit-13
20322162 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 14
20332163 and the Senate a report on the unfunded priorities, for 15
20342164 the Department of Homeland Security and separately for 16
20352165 each departmental component, for which discretionary 17
20362166 funding would be classified as budget function 050. 18
20372167 (b) Each report under this section shall specify, for 19
20382168 each such unfunded priority— 20
20392169 (1) a summary description, including the objec-21
20402170 tives to be achieved if such priority is funded 22
2041-(whether in whole or in part); 23 79
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20432175 (2) the description, including the objectives to 1
20442176 be achieved if such priority is funded (whether in 2
20452177 whole or in part); 3
20462178 (3) account information, including the following 4
20472179 (as applicable): 5
20482180 (A) appropriation account; and 6
20492181 (B) program, project, or activity name; 7
20502182 and 8
20512183 (4) the additional number of full-time or part- 9
20522184 time positions to be funded as part of such priority. 10
20532185 (c) In this section, the term ‘‘unfunded priority’’, in 11
20542186 the case of a fiscal year, means a requirement that— 12
20552187 (1) is not funded in the budget referred to in 13
20562188 subsection (a); 14
20572189 (2) is necessary to fulfill a requirement associ-15
20582190 ated with an operational or contingency plan for the 16
20592191 Department; and 17
20602192 (3) would have been recommended for funding 18
20612193 through the budget referred to in subsection (a) if— 19
20622194 (A) additional resources had been available 20
20632195 for the budget to fund the requirement; 21
20642196 (B) the requirement has emerged since the 22
20652197 budget was formulated; or 23
20662198 (C) the requirement is necessary to sustain 24
2067-prior-year investments. 25 80
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20692203 SEC. 533. (a) Not later than 10 days after a deter-1
20702204 mination is made by the President to evaluate and initiate 2
20712205 protection under any authority for a former or retired 3
20722206 Government official or employee, or for an individual who, 4
20732207 during the duration of the directed protection, will become 5
20742208 a former or retired Government official or employee (re-6
20752209 ferred to in this section as a ‘‘covered individual’’), the 7
20762210 Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a notifica-8
20772211 tion to congressional leadership and the Committees on 9
20782212 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 10
20792213 Senate, the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 11
20802214 Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Home-12
20812215 land Security of the House of Representatives, the Com-13
20822216 mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 14
20832217 of the Senate, and the Committee on Oversight and Re-15
20842218 form of the House of Representatives (referred to in this 16
20852219 section as the ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’). 17
20862220 (b) Such notification may be submitted in classified 18
20872221 form, if necessary, and in consultation with the Director 19
20882222 of National Intelligence or the Director of the Federal Bu-20
20892223 reau of Investigation, as appropriate, and shall include the 21
20902224 threat assessment, scope of the protection, and the antici-22
20912225 pated cost and duration of such protection. 23
20922226 (c) Not later than 15 days before extending, or 30 24
2093-days before terminating, protection for a covered indi-25 81
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20952231 vidual, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 1
20962232 a notification regarding the extension or termination and 2
20972233 any change to the threat assessment to the congressional 3
20982234 leadership and the appropriate congressional committees. 4
20992235 (d) Not later than 45 days after the date of enact-5
21002236 ment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter, the Secretary 6
21012237 shall submit a report to the congressional leadership and 7
21022238 the appropriate congressional committees, which may be 8
21032239 submitted in classified form, if necessary, detailing each 9
21042240 covered individual, and the scope and associated cost of 10
21052241 protection. 11
21062242 S
21072243 EC. 534. (a) None of the funds provided to the De-12
21082244 partment of Homeland Security in this or any prior Act 13
21092245 may be used by an agency to submit an initial project pro-14
21102246 posal to the Technology Modernization Fund (as author-15
21112247 ized by section 1078 of subtitle G of title X of the National 16
21122248 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public 17
21132249 Law 115–91)) unless, concurrent with the submission of 18
21142250 an initial project proposal to the Technology Moderniza-19
21152251 tion Board, the head of the agency— 20
21162252 (1) notifies the Committees on Appropriations 21
21172253 of the House of Representatives and the Senate of 22
21182254 the proposed submission of the project proposal; 23
21192255 (2) submits to the Committees on Appropria-24
2120-tions a copy of the project proposal; and 25 82
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21222260 (3) provides a detailed analysis of how the pro-1
21232261 posed project funding would supplement or supplant 2
21242262 funding requested as part of the Department’s most 3
21252263 recent budget submission. 4
21262264 (b) None of the funds provided to the Department 5
21272265 of Homeland Security by the Technology Modernization 6
21282266 Fund shall be available for obligation until 15 days after 7
21292267 a report on such funds has been transmitted to the Com-8
21302268 mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 9
21312269 and the Senate. 10
21322270 (c) The report described in subsection (b) shall in-11
21332271 clude— 12
21342272 (1) the full project proposal submitted to and 13
21352273 approved by the Fund’s Technology Modernization 14
21362274 Board; 15
21372275 (2) the finalized interagency agreement between 16
21382276 the Department and the Fund including the 17
21392277 project’s deliverables and repayment terms, as appli-18
21402278 cable; 19
21412279 (3) a detailed analysis of how the project will 20
21422280 supplement or supplant existing funding available to 21
21432281 the Department for similar activities; 22
21442282 (4) a plan for how the Department will repay 23
21452283 the Fund, including specific planned funding 24
2146-sources, as applicable; and 25 83
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21482288 (5) other information as determined by the Sec-1
21492289 retary. 2
21502290 S
21512291 EC. 535. Within 60 days of any budget submission 3
21522292 for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 4
21532293 2025 that assumes revenues or proposes a reduction from 5
21542294 the previous year based on user fees proposals that have 6
21552295 not been enacted into law prior to the submission of the 7
21562296 budget, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide 8
21572297 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-9
21582298 resentatives and the Senate specific reductions in proposed 10
21592299 discretionary budget authority commensurate with the 11
21602300 revenues assumed in such proposals in the event that they 12
21612301 are not enacted prior to October 1, 2024. 13
21622302 S
21632303 EC. 536. None of the funds made available by this 14
21642304 Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 15
21652305 Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 16
21662306 ratification for the Treaty. 17
21672307 S
21682308 EC. 537. No Federal funds made available to the 18
21692309 Department of Homeland Security may be used to enter 19
21702310 into a procurement contract, memorandum of under-20
21712311 standing, or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant 21
21722312 to, or provide a loan or guarantee to, any entity identified 22
21732313 under section 1260H of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 23
21742314 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 24
2175-(Public Law 116–283) or any subsidiary of such entity. 25 84
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2315+(Public Law 116–283) or any subsidiary of such entity. 25
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21772319 SEC. 538. None of the funds appropriated or other-1
21782320 wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 2
21792321 to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 3
21802322 or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 4
21812323 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 5
21822324 (1) is not a United States citizen or a member 6
21832325 of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 7
21842326 (2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 8
21852327 at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 9
21862328 Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 10
21872329 S
21882330 EC. 539. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 11
21892331 (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall, on 12
21902332 a bimonthly basis beginning immediately after the date of 13
21912333 enactment of this Act, develop estimates of the number 14
21922334 of migrants anticipated to arrive at the southwest border 15
21932335 of the United States. 16
21942336 (b) The Secretary shall ensure that, at a minimum, 17
21952337 the estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a)— 18
21962338 (1) cover the current fiscal year and the fol-19
21972339 lowing fiscal year; 20
21982340 (2) include a breakout by demographics, to in-21
21992341 clude single adults, family units, and unaccompanied 22
22002342 children; 23
22012343 (3) undergo an independent validation and 24
2202-verification review; 25 85
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22042348 (4) are used to inform policy planning and 1
22052349 budgeting processes within the Department of 2
22062350 Homeland Security; and 3
22072351 (5) are included in the budget materials sub-4
22082352 mitted to Congress in support of the President’s an-5
22092353 nual budget request pursuant to section 1105 of title 6
22102354 31, United States Code, for each fiscal year begin-7
22112355 ning after the date of enactment of this Act and, for 8
22122356 such budget materials shall include— 9
22132357 (A) the most recent bimonthly estimates 10
22142358 developed pursuant to subsection (a); 11
22152359 (B) a description and quantification of the 12
22162360 estimates used to justify funding requests for 13
22172361 Department programs related to border secu-14
22182362 rity, immigration enforcement, and immigration 15
22192363 services; 16
22202364 (C) a description and quantification of the 17
22212365 anticipated workload and requirements result-18
22222366 ing from such estimates; and 19
22232367 (D) a confirmation as to whether the budg-20
22242368 et requests for impacted agencies were devel-21
22252369 oped using the same estimates. 22
22262370 (c) The Secretary shall share the bimonthly estimates 23
22272371 developed pursuant to subsection (a) with the Secretary 24
2228-of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the 25 86
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2372+of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the 25
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22302376 Secretary of State, and the Committees on Appropriations 1
22312377 of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 2
22322378 S
22332379 EC. 540. None of the funds appropriated or other-3
22342380 wise made available by this Act may be made available 4
22352381 to establish or support the activities of: 5
22362382 (1) a Disinformation Governance Board at the 6
22372383 Department of Homeland Security, or any other en-7
22382384 tity carrying out similar activities relating to mis-, 8
22392385 dis-, or mal-information in a similar manner or to a 9
22402386 similar extent to such a Board; or 10
22412387 (2) any entity responsible, directly or indirectly, 11
22422388 under color of countering mis-, dis-, or mal-informa-12
22432389 tion or otherwise, for instructing, influencing, direct-13
22442390 ing, or recommending that private companies censor, 14
22452391 prohibit, or obstruct lawful and constitutionally pro-15
22462392 tected speech of United States persons on social 16
22472393 media platforms, including by— 17
22482394 (A) terminating speakers’ accounts; 18
22492395 (B) temporarily suspending accounts; 19
22502396 (C) imposing warnings or strikes against 20
22512397 accounts to stop future speech; 21
22522398 (D) ‘‘shadowbanning’’ speakers; 22
22532399 (E) demonetizing content or speakers; 23
22542400 (F) adjusting algorithms to suppress or de-24
2255-emphasize speakers or messages; 25 87
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2401+emphasize speakers or messages; 25
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22572405 (G) deboosting speakers or content; 1
22582406 (H) promoting or demoting content; 2
22592407 (I) placing warning labels or explanatory 3
22602408 notes on content; 4
22612409 (J) suppressing content in other users’ 5
22622410 feeds; 6
22632411 (K) promoting negative comments on 7
22642412 disfavored content; 8
22652413 (L) requiring additional click-through(s) to 9
22662414 access content; or 10
22672415 (M) any other such methods. 11
22682416 S
22692417 EC. 541. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
22702418 wise made available by this Act may be made available 13
22712419 to require an employee of the Department of Homeland 14
22722420 Security to receive a vaccination against COVID-19. 15
22732421 S
22742422 EC. 542. None of the funds appropriated or other-16
22752423 wise made available by this Act may be made available 17
22762424 to administer, implement, or enforce the rules entitled 18
22772425 ‘‘Amended Order Implementing Presidential Proclamation 19
22782426 on Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel Dur-20
22792427 ing the COVID–19 Pandemic’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 20405 et 21
22802428 seq.) or ‘‘Notification of Temporary Travel Restrictions 22
22812429 Applicable to Land Ports of Entry and Ferries Service Be-23
22822430 tween the United States and Mexico’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 24
2283-24041) (or any successor rules). 25 88
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2431+24041) (or any successor rules). 25
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22852435 SEC. 543. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-1
22862436 erwise made available by this Act may be made available 2
22872437 to: 3
22882438 (1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 4
22892439 communications by a United States person as mis- 5
22902440 , dis-, or mal-information; or 6
22912441 (2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other or-7
22922442 ganizations that in any way instruct, influence, di-8
22932443 rect, or recommend that private companies in any 9
22942444 way censor, prohibit, or obstruct lawful and constitu-10
22952445 tionally protected speech of United States persons 11
22962446 on social media platforms, including by— 12
22972447 (A) terminating speakers’ accounts; 13
22982448 (B) temporarily suspending accounts; 14
22992449 (C) imposing warnings or strikes against 15
23002450 accounts to stop future speech; 16
23012451 (D) ‘‘shadowbanning’’ speakers; 17
23022452 (E) demonetizing content or speakers; 18
23032453 (F) adjusting algorithms to suppress or de-19
23042454 emphasize speakers or messages; 20
23052455 (G) deboosting speakers or content; 21
23062456 (H) promoting or demoting content; 22
23072457 (I) placing warning labels or explanatory 23
2308-notes on content; 24 89
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2458+notes on content; 24
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23102462 (J) suppressing content in other users’ 1
23112463 feeds; 2
23122464 (K) promoting negative comments on 3
23132465 disfavored content; 4
23142466 (L) requiring additional click-through(s) to 5
23152467 access content; or 6
23162468 (M) any other such methods. 7
23172469 (b) Any officer or employee of the Federal Govern-8
23182470 ment whose salary is funded by this Act and who conducts 9
23192471 any activity described in subsections (a)(1) or (a)(2) shall 10
23202472 be removed from the Federal service. 11
23212473 S
23222474 EC. 544. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
23232475 wise made available by this Act may be made available 13
23242476 to implement, administer, or enforce the rule related to 14
23252477 ‘‘Circumvention of Lawful Pathways’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 15
23262478 11704). 16
23272479 S
23282480 EC. 545. None of the funds appropriated or other-17
23292481 wise made available by this Act may be made available 18
23302482 to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the 19
23312483 Equity Action Plan of the Department of Homeland Secu-20
2332-rity, or Executive Order No. 13985 of January 20, 2021 21
2333-(86 Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial equity 22
2334-and support for under-served communities through the 23
2335-federal government), Executive Order No. 14035 of June 24
2336-25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, eq-25 90
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2338-uity, inclusion, and accessibility in the federal workforce), 1
2339-Executive Order No. 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 2
2340-Fed. Reg. 10825 relating to further advancing racial eq-3
2341-uity and support for underserved communities through the 4
2342-federal government) or any program, project, or activity 5
2343-that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory or any 6
2344-concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 7
2484+rity, or Executive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 21
2485+Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial equity and 22
2486+support for under-served communities through the federal 23
2487+government), Executive Order 14035 of June 25, 2021 24
2488+(86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, equity, inclu-25
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2492+sion, and accessibility in the federal workforce), Executive 1
2493+Order 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 10825 2
2494+relating to further advancing racial equity and support for 3
2495+underserved communities through the federal government) 4
2496+or any program, project, or activity that promotes or ad-5
2497+vances Critical Race Theory or any concept associated 6
2498+with Critical Race Theory. 7
23452499 S
23462500 EC. 546. None of the funds appropriated or other-8
23472501 wise made available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Office 9
23482502 of the Secretary and Executive Management—Operations 10
23492503 and Support’’ may be made available for the purpose of 11
23502504 paying counsel outside the Federal Government— 12
23512505 (1) before the date on which all funds provided 13
23522506 in section 211(a)(1) of this Act are obligated; and 14
23532507 (2) to prepare for or defend against impeach-15
23542508 ment. 16
23552509 S
23562510 EC. 547. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-17
23572511 erwise made available by this Act may be made available 18
23582512 to be used to purchase, maintain, or continue to operate 19
23592513 any Unmanned Aircraft Systems that are manufactured 20
23602514 in the People’s Republic of China or a country identified 21
23612515 as a foreign adversary in the Annual Threat Assessment 22
23622516 of the U.S. Intelligence Community or by an entity domi-23
2363-ciled in the People’s Republic of China or a country identi-24 91
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2517+ciled in the People’s Republic of China or a country identi-24
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23652521 fied as a foreign adversary in the most recent Annual 1
23662522 Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. 2
23672523 (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 3
23682524 funds for counterintelligence, research and development, 4
23692525 test and evaluation, or counter Unmanned Aircraft Sys-5
23702526 tem mitigation efforts, including the activities of the Coast 6
23712527 Guard authorized by section 8414 of Public Law 116–283 7
23722528 (14 U.S.C. 1156 note). 8
23732529 S
23742530 EC. 548. (a) Section 538 of the Department of 9
23752531 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2022 (division F 10
23762532 of Public Law 117–103) is amended— 11
23772533 (1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘may’’ and in-12
23782534 serting ‘‘shall’’; and 13
23792535 (2) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the 14
23802536 following: 15
23812537 ‘‘(d) Amounts in the Fund may not be ob-16
23822538 ligated until after the date on which the Act 17
23832539 making full-year appropriations for the Depart-18
23842540 ment of Homeland Security for the applicable 19
23852541 fiscal year is enacted into law, subject to sub-20
23862542 section (e). 21
23872543 ‘‘(e) The Committees on Appropriations of 22
23882544 the House of Representatives and the Senate 23
23892545 shall be notified at least 15 days in advance of 24
2390-the planned use of funds.’’. 25 92
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2546+the planned use of funds.’’. 25
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23922550 (b) The amendments made by this section shall apply 1
23932551 to amounts transferred under such section 538 on or after 2
23942552 the date of enactment of this Act. 3
23952553 S
23962554 EC. 549. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-4
23972555 erwise made available by this Act or any other Act shall 5
23982556 be used to execute an inspection of any detention facility 6
23992557 that is in a contractual agreement with U.S. Immigration 7
24002558 and Customs Enforcement for the provision of detention 8
24012559 services within six months of a previous inspection of such 9
24022560 facility. 10
24032561 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to in-11
24042562 spections executed by the Office of Inspector General. 12
24052563 S
24062564 EC. 550. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-13
24072565 erwise made available by this Act or any other Act shall 14
24082566 be used to execute an inspection of any detention facility 15
24092567 that is in a contractual agreement with U.S. Immigration 16
24102568 and Customs Enforcement for the provision of detention 17
24112569 services, except solely for compliance with the terms, con-18
24122570 ditions, and standards found within the National Deten-19
24132571 tion Standards 2019 for U.S. Immigration and Customs 20
24142572 Enforcement. 21
24152573 (b) Subsection (a) shall take effect for detention fa-22
24162574 cilities operating under existing contracts, as of the date 23
24172575 of enactment of this Act, not later than 180 days after 24
2418-the date of enactment of this Act. 25 93
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2576+the date of enactment of this Act. 25
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24202580 SEC. 551. None of the funds appropriated or other-1
24212581 wise made available by this Act shall be used to admit 2
24222582 an alien, who is a national of the Republic of Chile, under 3
24232583 section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 4
24242584 U.S.C. 1187), until the Secretary of Homeland Security 5
24252585 verifies that the Republic of Chile provides access to ap-6
24262586 propriate criminal databases and the Department of 7
24272587 Homeland Security screens Chilean nationals against such 8
24282588 criminal databases. 9
24292589 S
24302590 EC. 552. (a) In general.—Notwithstanding section 10
24312591 7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 11
24322592 28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 12
24332593 none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-13
24342594 priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 14
24352595 any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-15
24362596 tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 16
24372597 accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 17
24382598 conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 18
24392599 a union of one man and one woman. 19
24402600 (b) Discriminatory action defined.—As used in sub-20
24412601 section (a), a discriminatory action means any action 21
24422602 taken by the Federal Government to— 22
24432603 (1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 23
24442604 of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-24
2445-sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-25 94
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2605+sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-25
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24472609 tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-1
24482610 nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 2
24492611 in subsection (a); 3
24502612 (2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-4
24512613 poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 5
24522614 such person; 6
24532615 (3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 7
24542616 exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 8
24552617 deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-9
24562618 operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-10
24572619 cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 11
24582620 other similar position or status from or to such per-12
24592621 son; 13
24602622 (4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-14
24612623 erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 15
24622624 benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 16
24632625 admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 17
24642626 degree from an educational program, from or to 18
24652627 such person; or 19
24662628 (5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-20
24672629 erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-21
24682630 ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-22
24692631 stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 23
24702632 and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-24
2471-paigns from or to such person. 25 95
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2633+paigns from or to such person. 25
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24732637 (c) Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.—The 1
24742638 Federal Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or 2
24752639 certified for purposes of Federal law any person that 3
24762640 would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for 4
24772641 such purposes but for a determination against such person 5
24782642 wholly or partially on the basis that the person speaks, 6
24792643 or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief 7
24802644 or moral conviction described in subsection (a). 8
24812645 (RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 9
24822646 S
24832647 EC. 553. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-10
24842648 ment of Homeland Security, the following funds are here-11
24852649 by rescinded from the following accounts and programs 12
24862650 in the specified amounts: Provided, That no amounts may 13
24872651 be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the 14
24882652 Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a con-15
24892653 current resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 16
24902654 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 17
24912655 (1) $800,000 from unobligated balances avail-18
24922656 able in the ‘‘Office of the Secretary and Executive 19
24932657 Management—Operations and Support’’ account (70 20
24942658 23/24 0100). 21
24952659 (2) $4,100,000 from the unobligated balances 22
24962660 available in the ‘‘Management Directorate—Office of 23
24972661 the Chief Information Officer and Operations’’ ac-24
2498-count (70 X 0113). 25 96
2499-•HR 4367 EH
2662+count (70 X 0113). 25
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25002666 (3) $1,473,000 from the unobligated balances 1
25012667 available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-2
25022668 tion—Procurement, Construction, and Improve-3
25032669 ments’’ account (70 X 0532). 4
25042670 (4) $1,842,000 from the unobligated balances 5
25052671 available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-6
25062672 tion—Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and 7
25072673 Technology’’ account (70 X 0533). 8
25082674 (5) $452,000 from the unobligated balances 9
25092675 available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-10
25102676 tion—Air and Marine Interdiction, Operations, 11
25112677 Maintenance, and Procurement’’ account (70 X 12
25122678 0544). 13
25132679 (6) $1,159,000,000 from the unobligated bal-14
25142680 ances available under the heading ‘‘U.S. Customs 15
25152681 and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, 16
25162682 and Improvements’’ of the amounts provided by 17
25172683 Public Law 116–93 for the construction of barrier 18
25182684 system along the southwest border. 19
25192685 (7) $945,000,000 from the unobligated bal-20
25202686 ances available under the heading ‘‘U.S. Customs 21
25212687 and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, 22
25222688 and Improvements’’ of the amounts provided by 23
25232689 Public Law 116–260 for the construction of barrier 24
2524-system along the southwest border. 25 97
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2690+system along the southwest border. 25
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25262694 (8) $3,000,000 from the unobligated balances 1
25272695 available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-2
25282696 forcement—Operations and Support’’ account (70 3
25292697 23/24 0540). 4
25302698 (9) $2,092,841 from the unobligated balances 5
25312699 available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-6
25322700 forcement—Operations and Support’’ account (70 X 7
25332701 0540). 8
25342702 (10) $10,439 from the unobligated balances 9
25352703 available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-10
25362704 forcement—Automation Modernization’’ account (70 11
25372705 X 0543). 12
25382706 (11) $154,515,000 from the unobligated bal-13
25392707 ances available under the heading ‘‘Transportation 14
25402708 Security Administration—Operations and Support’’ 15
25412709 of the amounts provided by Public Law 117–328. 16
25422710 (12) $22,600,000 from the unobligated bal-17
25432711 ances available in the ‘‘Coast Guard—Acquisition, 18
25442712 Construction, and Improvements’’ account (70 X 19
25452713 0613). 20
25462714 (13) $3,500,000 from the unobligated balances 21
25472715 available in the ‘‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 22
25482716 Security Agency—Procurement, Construction, and 23
2549-Improvements’’ account (70 23/27 0412). 24 98
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2717+Improvements’’ account (70 23/27 0412). 24
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25512721 (14) $2,000,000 from the unobligated balances 1
25522722 available in the ‘‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 2
25532723 Security Agency—Research and Development’’ ac-3
25542724 count (70 23/24 0805). 4
25552725 (15) $5,821,000 from the unobligated balances 5
25562726 available in the ‘‘Federal Emergency Management 6
25572727 Agency—National Predisaster Mitigation Fund’’ ac-7
25582728 count (70 X 0716). 8
25592729 (16) $800,000 from the unobligated balances 9
25602730 available in the ‘‘Federal Law Enforcement Training 10
25612731 Centers—Procurement, Construction, and Improve-11
25622732 ments’’ account (70 20/24 0510). 12
25632733 (17) $900,000 from the unobligated balances 13
25642734 available in the ‘‘Science and Technology Direc-14
25652735 torate—Operations and Support’’ account (70 X 15
25662736 0800). 16
25672737 (18) $388,522 from the unobligated balances 17
25682738 available in the ‘‘Countering Weapons of Mass De-18
25692739 struction Office—Research and Development’’ ac-19
25702740 count (70 22/24 0860). 20
25712741 (19) $11,478 from the unobligated balances 21
25722742 available in the ‘‘Countering Weapons of Mass De-22
25732743 struction Office—Research and Development’’ ac-23
2574-count (70 X 0860). 24 99
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2744+count (70 X 0860). 24
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25762748 SEC. 554. Of the unobligated balances of amounts 1
25772749 made available under section 70001 of Public Law 117– 2
25782750 169, $312,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 3
25792751 S
25802752 EC. 555. Of the unobligated balances of amounts 4
25812753 made available in the Department of Homeland Security 5
25822754 Nonrecurring Expenses Fund (70 X 1914), $3,800,000 6
25832755 are hereby rescinded. 7
25842756 SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 8
25852757 S
25862758 EC. 556. The amount by which the applicable alloca-9
25872759 tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 10
25882760 Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-11
25892761 tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-12
25902762 ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 13
2591-S
2592-EC. 557. None of the funds made available by this 14
2593-Act may be used to pay Secretary Alejandro Nicholas 15
2594-Mayorkas a salary that exceeds $1. 16
2595-S
2596-EC. 558. None of the funds made available by this 17
2597-Act may be used to pay the salary and expenses of the 18
2598-position of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland 19
2599-Security, occupied by Alejandro Mayorkas. 20
2600-S
2601-EC. 559. None of the funds made available by this 21
2602-Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 22
2603-rule entitled ‘‘Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility’’ 23
2604-published by the Department of Homeland Security in the 24 100
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2606-Federal Register on September 9, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 1
2607-55472). 2
2608-S
2609-EC. 560. None of the funds made available by this 3
2610-Act may be used to implement a COVID-19 vaccine and 4
2611-mask mandate for travelers passing through the Transpor-5
2612-tation Security Administration checkpoints. 6
2613-S
2614-EC. 561. The salary of Ur M. Jaddou, Director of 7
2615-U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, shall be re-8
2616-duced to $1. 9
2617-S
2618-EC. 562. None of the funds made available by this 10
2619-Act may be used to require an employee of the Depart-11
2620-ment of Homeland Security to wear a face mask. 12
2621-S
2622-EC. 563. None of the funds appropriated or other-13
2623-wise made available by this Act may be used for the Unit-14
2624-ing for Ukraine program. 15
2625-S
2626-EC. 564. The salary of Alejandro Nicholas 16
2627-Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, shall be re-17
2628-duced to $1.00. 18
2629-S
2630-EC. 565. None of the funds made available by this 19
2631-Act may be used by the Secretary of Homeland Security 20
2632-to travel to outside of the United States. 21
2633-S
2634-EC. 566. None of the funds made available by this 22
2635-Act may be used to implement the Climate Literacy Strat-23
2636-egy. 24 101
2637-•HR 4367 EH
2638-SEC. 567. None of the funds made available by this 1
2639-Act may be used for the Department of Homeland Secu-2
2640-rity’s Environmental Justice Strategy. 3
2641-S
2642-EC. 568. None of the funds made available in this 4
2643-Act may be made available to administer, implement, or 5
2644-enforce the ‘‘Funding the Asylum Program With Em-6
2645-ployer Petition Fees’’ section of the proposed rule entitled 7
2646-‘‘U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Fee Schedule 8
2647-and Changes to Certain Other Immigration Benefit Re-9
2648-quest Requirements’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 402). 10
2649-S
2650-EC. 569. The salary of Jonathan Davidson, Chief 11
2651-of Staff of the Department of Homeland Security, shall 12
2652-be reduced to $1. 13
2653-S
2654-EC. 570. None of the funds made available by this 14
2655-Act may be used to carry out Executive Order No. 14019 15
2656-(86 Fed. Reg. 13623; relating to promoting access to vot-16
2657-ing), except for sections 7, 8, and 10 of such Order. 17
2658-S
2659-EC. 571. None of the funds made available by this 18
2660-Act may be used for the Homeland Intelligence Experts 19
2661-Group. 20
2662-S
2663-EC. 572. None of the funds appropriated or other-21
2664-wise made available by this Act may be made available 22
2665-to administer, implement, or enforce a ‘‘Remain-in-Texas’’ 23
2666-policy. 24 102
2667-•HR 4367 EH
2668-SEC. 573. None of the funds made available by this 1
2669-Act may be used to carry out the Department of Home-2
2670-land Security memorandum titled ‘‘Worksite Enforcement: 3
2671-The Strategy to Protect the American Labor Market, the 4
2672-Conditions of the American Worksite, and the Dignity of 5
2673-the Individual’’. 6
2674-S
2675-EC. 574. None of the funds made available by this 7
2676-Act shall be used to terminate the Department of Home-8
2677-land Security’s Migration Protection Protocols. 9
2678-S
2679-EC. 575. None of the funds made available by this 10
2680-Act may be used to carry out the Department of Home-11
2681-land Security memorandum titled ‘‘Guidelines for En-12
2682-forcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas’’. 13
2683-S
2684-EC. 576. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 14
2685-may be used to implement any of the following executive 15
2686-orders: 16
2687-(1) Executive Order No. 13990, relating to 17
2688-Protecting Public Health and the Environment and 18
2689-Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis. 19
2690-(2) Executive Order No. 14008, relating to 20
2691-Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. 21
2692-(3) Section 6 of Executive Order No. 14013, re-22
2693-lating to Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To 23
2694-Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of 24
2695-Climate Change on Migration. 25 103
2696-•HR 4367 EH
2697-(4) Executive Order No. 14030, relating to Cli-1
2698-mate-Related Financial Risk. 2
2699-(5) Executive Order No. 14057, relating to 3
2700-Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs 4
2701-Through Federal Sustainability. 5
2702-(6) Executive Order No. 14082, relating to Im-6
2703-plementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Pro-7
2704-visions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. 8
2705-(7) Executive Order No. 14096, relating to Re-9
2706-vitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environ-10
2707-mental Justice for All. 11
2708-S
2709-EC. 577. None of the funds made available in this 12
2710-Act may be used in contravention of section 642(a) of the 13
2711-Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 14
2712-Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373(a)). 15
2713-S
2714-EC. 578. None of the funds made available by this 16
2715-Act may be used to provide assistance to the Department 17
2716-of Defense to house persons at military installations in 18
2717-the United States, except in the case of a major disaster 19
2718-declaration made pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Dis-20
2719-aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 21
2720-5121 et seq.), or for U.S. Coast Guard personnel. 22 104
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2722-This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of 1
2723-Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 2
2724-Passed the House of Representatives September 28,
2725-2023.
2726-Attest:
2727-Clerk. 118
2763+This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of 14
2764+Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 15
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27332775 ESSION
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27352777 H. R. 4367
2736-AN ACT
2778+[Report No. 118–123]
2779+A BILL
27372780 Making appropriations for the Department of
27382781 Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending
27392782 September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
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2785+27, 2023
2786+Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
2787+State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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