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Calendar No. 188
118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 2625
[Report No. 118–85]
Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY27, 2023
Mr. M
URPHY, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following
original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Se-
curity for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4
Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year end-5
ing September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, namely: 6 2
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TITLE I 1
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT, INTEL-2
LIGENCE, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, AND 3
OVERSIGHT 4
O
FFICE OF THESECRETARY ANDEXECUTIVE 5
M
ANAGEMENT 6
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 7
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary 8
and for executive management for operations and support, 9
$286,563,000: Provided, That not to exceed $30,000 shall 10
be for official reception and representation expenses. 11
FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 12
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 13
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary 14
and for executive management for Federal assistance 15
through grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 16
other activities, $32,900,000, which shall be transferred 17
to ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal 18
Assistance’’, of which $18,800,000 shall be for targeted 19
violence and terrorism prevention grants and of which 20
$14,100,000, to remain available until September 30, 21
2025, shall be for the Alternatives to Detention Case Man-22
agement pilot program. 23 3
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MANAGEMENTDIRECTORATE 1
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 2
For necessary expenses of the Management Direc-3
torate for operations and support, including vehicle fleet 4
modernization, $1,700,952,000: Provided, That not to ex-5
ceed $2,000 shall be for official reception and representa-6
tion expenses. 7
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 8
For necessary expenses of the Management Direc-9
torate for procurement, construction, and improvements, 10
$73,365,000, to remain available until September 30, 11
2026: Provided, That of the amounts made available under 12
this heading, $63,365,000 is designated by the Congress 13
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-14
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-15
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 16
FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE 17
The revenues and collections of security fees credited 18
to this account shall be available until expended for nec-19
essary expenses related to the protection of federally 20
owned and leased buildings and for the operations of the 21
Federal Protective Service. 22 4
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INTELLIGENCE, ANALYSIS, ANDSITUATIONAL 1
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WARENESS 2
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 3
For necessary expenses of the Office of Intelligence 4
and Analysis and the Office of Homeland Security Situa-5
tional Awareness for operations and support, 6
$341,497,000, of which $105,701,000 shall remain avail-7
able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-8
ceed $3,825 shall be for official reception and representa-9
tion expenses and not to exceed $2,000,000 is available 10
for facility needs associated with secure space at fusion 11
centers, including improvements to buildings. 12
O
FFICE OF THEINSPECTORGENERAL 13
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 14
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 15
General for operations and support, $237,000,000: Pro-16
vided, That not to exceed $300,000 may be used for cer-17
tain confidential operational expenses, including the pay-18
ment of informants, to be expended at the direction of the 19
Inspector General. 20
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DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 21
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EC. 101. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 22
shall submit a report not later than October 15, 2024, 23
to the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 24
Security listing all grants and contracts awarded by any 25 5
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means other than full and open competition during fiscal 1
years 2023 or 2024. 2
(b) The Inspector General shall review the report re-3
quired by subsection (a) to assess departmental compli-4
ance with applicable laws and regulations and report the 5
results of that review to the Committees on Appropriations 6
of the Senate and the House of Representatives not later 7
than February 14, 2025. 8
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EC. 102. Not later than 30 days after the last day 9
of each month, the Chief Financial Officer of the Depart-10
ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Commit-11
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 12
Representatives a monthly budget and staffing report that 13
includes total obligations of the Department for that 14
month and for the fiscal year at the appropriation and 15
program, project, and activity levels, by the source year 16
of the appropriation. 17
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EC. 103. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 18
in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall 19
notify the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 20
and the House of Representatives of any proposed trans-21
fers of funds available under section 9705(g)(4)(B) of title 22
31, United States Code, from the Department of the 23
Treasury Forfeiture Fund to any agency within the De-24
partment of Homeland Security. 25 6
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(b) None of the funds identified for such a transfer 1
may be obligated until the Committees on Appropriations 2
of the Senate and the House of Representatives are noti-3
fied of the proposed transfer. 4
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EC. 104. All official costs associated with the use 5
of Government aircraft by Department of Homeland Secu-6
rity personnel to support official travel of the Secretary 7
and the Deputy Secretary shall be paid from amounts 8
made available for the Office of the Secretary. 9
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EC. 105. (a) The Under Secretary for Management 10
shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the Sen-11
ate and the House of Representatives not later than 45 12
days after the end of each fiscal quarter on all Level 1 13
and Level 2 acquisition programs on the Master Acquisi-14
tion Oversight list between Acquisition Decision Event and 15
Full Operational Capability, including programs that have 16
been removed from such list during the preceding quarter. 17
(b) For each such program, the briefing described in 18
subsection (a) shall include— 19
(1) a description of the purpose of the program, 20
including the capabilities being acquired and the 21
component(s) sponsoring the acquisition; 22
(2) the total number of units, as appropriate, to 23
be acquired annually until procurement is complete 24
under the current acquisition program baseline; 25 7
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(3) the Acquisition Review Board status, in-1
cluding— 2
(A) the current acquisition phase by incre-3
ment, as applicable; 4
(B) the date of the most recent review; and 5
(C) whether the program has been paused 6
or is in breach status; 7
(4) a comparison between the initial Depart-8
ment-approved acquisition program baseline cost, 9
schedule, and performance thresholds and objectives 10
and the program’s current such thresholds and ob-11
jectives, if applicable; 12
(5) the lifecycle cost estimate, adjusted for com-13
parison to the Future Years Homeland Security 14
Program, including— 15
(A) the confidence level for the estimate; 16
(B) the fiscal years included in the esti-17
mate; 18
(C) a breakout of the estimate for the 19
prior five years, the current year, and the budg-20
et year; 21
(D) a breakout of the estimate by appro-22
priation account or other funding source; and 23
(E) a description of and rationale for any 24
changes to the estimate as compared to the pre-25 8
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viously approved baseline, as applicable, and 1
during the prior fiscal year; 2
(6) a summary of the findings of any inde-3
pendent verification and validation of the items to be 4
acquired or an explanation for why no such 5
verification and validation has been performed; 6
(7) a table displaying the obligation of all pro-7
gram funds by prior fiscal year, the estimated obli-8
gation of funds for the current fiscal year, and an 9
estimate for the planned carryover of funds into the 10
subsequent fiscal year; 11
(8) a listing of prime contractors and major 12
subcontractors; and 13
(9) narrative descriptions of risks to cost, 14
schedule, or performance that could result in a pro-15
gram breach if not successfully mitigated. 16
(c) The Under Secretary for Management shall sub-17
mit each approved Acquisition Decision Memorandum for 18
programs described in this section to the Committees on 19
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Represent-20
atives not later than five business days after the date of 21
approval of such memorandum by the Under Secretary for 22
Management or the designee of the Under Secretary. 23
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EC. 106. (a) None of the funds made available to 24
the Department of Homeland Security in this Act or prior 25 9
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appropriations Acts may be obligated for any new pilot 1
or demonstration unless the component or office carrying 2
out such pilot or demonstration has documented the infor-3
mation described in subsection (c). 4
(b) Prior to the obligation of any such funds made 5
available for ‘‘Operations and Support’’ for a new pilot 6
or demonstration, the Under Secretary for Management 7
shall provide a report to the Committees on Appropria-8
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives on 9
the information described in subsection (c). 10
(c) The information required under subsections (a) 11
and (b) for a pilot or demonstration shall include the fol-12
lowing— 13
(1) documented objectives that are well-defined 14
and measurable; 15
(2) an assessment methodology that details— 16
(A) the type and source of assessment 17
data; 18
(B) the methods for, and frequency of, col-19
lecting such data; and 20
(C) how such data will be analyzed; and 21
(3) an implementation plan, including mile-22
stones, cost estimates, and implementation sched-23
ules, including a projected end date. 24 10
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(d) Not later than 90 days after the date of comple-1
tion of a pilot or demonstration described in subsection 2
(e), the Under Secretary for Management shall provide a 3
report to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 4
and the House of Representatives detailing lessons 5
learned, actual costs, any planned expansion or continu-6
ation of the pilot or demonstration, and any planned tran-7
sition of such pilot or demonstration into an enduring pro-8
gram or operation. 9
(e) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or dem-10
onstration program is a study, demonstration, experi-11
mental program, or trial that— 12
(1) is a small-scale, short-term experiment con-13
ducted in order to evaluate feasibility, duration, 14
costs, or adverse events, and improve upon the de-15
sign of an effort prior to implementation of a larger 16
scale effort; and 17
(2) uses more than 10 full-time equivalents or 18
obligates, or proposes to obligate, $5,000,000 or 19
more, but does not include congressionally directed 20
programs or enhancements and does not include pro-21
grams that were in operation as of March 15, 2022. 22
(f) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or dem-23
onstration does not include any testing, evaluation, or ini-24
tial deployment phase executed under a procurement con-25 11
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tract for the acquisition of information technology services 1
or systems, or any pilot or demonstration carried out by 2
a non-Federal recipient under any financial assistance 3
agreement funded by the Department. 4 12
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TITLE II 1
SECURITY, ENFORCEMENT, AND 2
INVESTIGATIONS 3
U.S. C
USTOMS ANDBORDERPROTECTION 4
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 5
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 6
For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border 7
Protection for operations and support, including the trans-8
portation of unaccompanied alien minors; the provision of 9
air and marine support to Federal, State, local, and inter-10
national agencies in the enforcement or administration of 11
laws enforced by the Department of Homeland Security; 12
at the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, 13
the provision of such support to Federal, State, and local 14
agencies in other law enforcement and emergency humani-15
tarian efforts; the purchase and lease of up to 7,500 16
(6,500 for replacement only) police-type vehicles; the pur-17
chase, maintenance, or operation of marine vessels, air-18
craft, and unmanned aerial systems; and contracting with 19
individuals for personal services abroad; $16,598,076,000; 20
of which $3,274,000 shall be derived from the Harbor 21
Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses re-22
lated to the collection of the Harbor Maintenance Fee pur-23
suant to section 9505(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code 24
of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9505(c)(3)) and notwithstanding sec-25 13
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tion 1511(e)(1) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 1
U.S.C. 551(e)(1)); of which $500,000,000 shall be avail-2
able until September 30, 2025; and of which such sums 3
as become available in the Customs User Fee Account, ex-4
cept sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consoli-5
dated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 6
U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that account: Pro-7
vided, That not to exceed $34,425 shall be for official re-8
ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 9
That not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for pay-10
ment for rental space in connection with preclearance op-11
erations: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 12
shall be for awards of compensation to informants, to be 13
accounted for solely under the certificate of the Secretary 14
of Homeland Security: Provided further, That 15
$752,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘Federal Emergency 16
Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’ to support 17
sheltering and related activities provided by non-Federal 18
entities, in support of relieving overcrowding in short-term 19
holding facilities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 20
of which not to exceed $10,528,000 shall be for the admin-21
istrative costs of the Federal Emergency Management 22
Agency: Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000,000 23
may be transferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 24
the maintenance and repair of roads on Native American 25 14
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reservations used by the U.S. Border Patrol: Provided fur-1
ther, That of the amounts made available under this head-2
ing for the Executive Leadership and Oversight program, 3
project, and activity, as outlined in the report accom-4
panying this Act), $5,000,000 shall not be available for 5
obligation until the reports concerning human capital stra-6
tegic plans and the Office of Field Operations workload 7
staffing model that are directed in such report are sub-8
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 9
and the House of Representatives: Provided further, That 10
of the amounts made available under this heading, 11
$798,762,000 is designated by the Congress as being for 12
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 13
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 14
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 15
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 16
For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border 17
Protection for procurement, construction, and improve-18
ments, including procurement of marine vessels, aircraft, 19
and unmanned aerial systems, $1,152,529,000, of which 20
$1,082,875,000 shall remain available until September 30, 21
2026, and of which $69,654,000 shall remain available 22
until September 30, 2028: Provided, That the amounts 23
made available under this heading are designated by the 24
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 25 15
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to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 1
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 2
U.S. I
MMIGRATION AND CUSTOMSENFORCEMENT 3
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 4
For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and 5
Customs Enforcement for operations and support, includ-6
ing the purchase and lease of up to 3,790 (2,350 for re-7
placement only) police-type vehicles; overseas vetted units; 8
and maintenance, minor construction, and minor leasehold 9
improvements at owned and leased facilities; 10
$8,836,263,000; of which not less than $6,000,000 shall 11
remain available until expended for efforts to enforce laws 12
against forced child labor; of which $46,696,000 shall re-13
main available until September 30, 2025; of which not less 14
than $2,000,000 is for paid apprenticeships for partici-15
pants in the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative Child- 16
Rescue Corps; of which not less than $15,000,000 shall 17
be available for investigation of intellectual property rights 18
violations, including operation of the National Intellectual 19
Property Rights Coordination Center; and of which not 20
less than $4,544,495,000 shall be for enforcement, deten-21
tion, and removal operations, including transportation of 22
unaccompanied alien minors: Provided, That not to exceed 23
$11,475 shall be for official reception and representation 24
expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed 25 16
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$10,000,000 shall be available until expended for con-1
ducting special operations under section 3131 of the Cus-2
toms Enforcement Act of 1986 (19 U.S.C. 2081): Pro-3
vided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be for 4
awards of compensation to informants, to be accounted 5
for solely under the certificate of the Secretary of Home-6
land Security: Provided further, That not to exceed 7
$11,216,000 shall be available to fund or reimburse other 8
Federal agencies for the costs associated with the care, 9
maintenance, and repatriation of smuggled aliens unlaw-10
fully present in the United States: Provided further, That 11
of the amounts made available under this heading, 12
$686,000,000 is designated by the Congress as being for 13
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 14
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 15
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 16
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 17
For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and 18
Customs Enforcement for procurement, construction, and 19
improvements, $50,100,000, of which $35,000,000 shall 20
remain available until September 30, 2026; and of which 21
$15,100,000 shall remain available until September 30, 22
2028: Provided, That of the amounts made available under 23
this heading, $35,000,000 is designated by the Congress 24
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-25 17
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tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-1
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 2
T
RANSPORTATIONSECURITYADMINISTRATION 3
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 4
For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-5
rity Administration for operations and support, 6
$10,020,729,000, to remain available until September 30, 7
2025: Provided, That not to exceed $7,650 shall be for 8
official reception and representation expenses: Provided 9
further, That security service fees authorized under section 10
44940 of title 49, United States Code, shall be credited 11
to this appropriation as offsetting collections and shall be 12
available only for aviation security: Provided further, That 13
the sum appropriated under this heading from the general 14
fund shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such 15
offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2024 16
so as to result in a final fiscal year appropriation from 17
the general fund estimated at not more than 18
$7,400,729,000. 19
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 20
For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-21
rity Administration for procurement, construction, and 22
improvements, $13,939,000, to remain available until Sep-23
tember 30, 2026. 24 18
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COASTGUARD 1
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 2
For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for oper-3
ations and support including the Coast Guard Reserve; 4
purchase or lease of not to exceed 25 passenger motor ve-5
hicles, which shall be for replacement only; purchase or 6
lease of small boats for contingent and emergent require-7
ments (at a unit cost of not more than $700,000) and 8
repairs and service-life replacements, not to exceed a total 9
of $31,000,000; purchase, lease, or improvements of boats 10
necessary for overseas deployments and activities; pay-11
ments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377 (42 12
U.S.C. 402 note; 96 Stat. 1920); and recreation and wel-13
fare; $10,063,203,000, of which $530,000,000 shall be for 14
defense-related activities; of which $24,500,000 shall be 15
derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry 16
out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution 17
Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)); of which 18
$20,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 19
2026; of which $24,717,000 shall remain available until 20
September 30, 2028, for environmental compliance and 21
restoration; and of which $70,000,000 shall remain avail-22
able until September 30, 2025, which shall only be avail-23
able for vessel depot level maintenance: Provided, That not 24 19
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to exceed $23,000 shall be for official reception and rep-1
resentation expenses. 2
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 3
For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for pro-4
curement, construction, and improvements, including aids 5
to navigation, shore facilities (including facilities at De-6
partment of Defense installations used by the Coast 7
Guard), and vessels and aircraft, including equipment re-8
lated thereto, $1,143,322,000, to remain available until 9
September 30, 2028; of which $20,000,000 shall be de-10
rived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out 11
the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act 12
of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)): Provided, That of the 13
amounts made available under this heading, 14
$1,118,322,000 is designated by the Congress as being for 15
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 16
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 17
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 18
RETIRED PAY 19
For retired pay, including the payment of obligations 20
otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this pur-21
pose, payments under the Retired Serviceman’s Family 22
Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, payment for ca-23
reer status bonuses, payment of continuation pay under 24
section 356 of title 37, United States Code, concurrent 25 20
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receipts, combat-related special compensation, and pay-1
ments for medical care of retired personnel and their de-2
pendents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, 3
$1,147,244,000, to remain available until expended. 4
U
NITEDSTATESSECRETSERVICE 5
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 6
For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 7
Service for operations and support, including purchase of 8
not to exceed 652 vehicles for police-type use; hire of pas-9
senger motor vehicles; purchase of motorcycles made in 10
the United States; hire of aircraft; rental of buildings in 11
the District of Columbia; fencing, lighting, guard booths, 12
and other facilities on private or other property not in 13
Government ownership or control, as may be necessary to 14
perform protective functions; conduct of and participation 15
in firearms matches; presentation of awards; conduct of 16
behavioral research in support of protective intelligence 17
and operations; payment in advance for commercial ac-18
commodations as may be necessary to perform protective 19
functions; and payment, without regard to section 5702 20
of title 5, United States Code, of subsistence expenses of 21
employees who are on protective missions, whether at or 22
away from their duty stations; $2,903,030,000; of which 23
$114,599,000 shall remain available until September 30, 24
2025, and of which $6,000,000 shall be for a grant for 25 21
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activities related to investigations of missing and exploited 1
children; and of which up to $20,500,000 may be for cal-2
endar year 2023 premium pay in excess of the annual 3
equivalent of the limitation on the rate of pay contained 4
in section 5547(a) of title 5, United States Code, pursuant 5
to section 2 of the Overtime Pay for Protective Services 6
Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as last amended by 7
Public Law 116–269: Provided, That not to exceed 8
$19,125 shall be for official reception and representation 9
expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 10
shall be to provide technical assistance and equipment to 11
foreign law enforcement organizations in criminal inves-12
tigations within the jurisdiction of the United States Se-13
cret Service: Provided further, That of the amounts made 14
available under this heading, $197,785,000 is designated 15
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 16
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-17
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 18
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 19
For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 20
Service for procurement, construction, and improvements, 21
$69,098,000, to remain available until September 30, 22
2026: Provided, That of the amounts made available under 23
this heading, $18,000,000 is designated by the Congress 24
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-25 22
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tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-1
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 2
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 3
For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 4
Service for research and development, $4,217,000, to re-5
main available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That 6
the amounts made available under this heading are des-7
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-8
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-9
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 10
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DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 11
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EC. 201. Section 201 of the Department of Home-12
land Security Appropriations Act, 2018 (division F of 13
Public Law 115–141), related to overtime compensation 14
limitations, shall apply with respect to funds made avail-15
able in this Act in the same manner as such section ap-16
plied to funds made available in that Act, except that ‘‘fis-17
cal year 2024’’ shall be substituted for ‘‘fiscal year 2018’’. 18
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EC. 202. Funding made available under the head-19
ings ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations 20
and Support’’ and ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-21
tion—Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’’ 22
shall be available for customs expenses when necessary to 23
maintain operations and prevent adverse personnel actions 24
in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, in addition 25 23
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to funding provided by sections 740 and 1406i of title 48, 1
United States Code. 2
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EC. 203. As authorized by section 601(b) of the 3
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Im-4
plementation Act (Public Law 112–42), fees collected 5
from passengers arriving from Canada, Mexico, or an ad-6
jacent island pursuant to section 13031(a)(5) of the Con-7
solidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 8
U.S.C. 58c(a)(5)) shall be available until expended. 9
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EC. 204. (a) For an additional amount for ‘‘U.S. 10
Customs and Border Protection—Operations and Sup-11
port’’, $31,000,000, to remain available until expended, 12
to be reduced by amounts collected and credited to this 13
appropriation in fiscal year 2024 from amounts authorized 14
to be collected by section 286(i) of the Immigration and 15
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(i)), section 10412 of the 16
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 17
U.S.C. 8311), and section 817 of the Trade Facilitation 18
and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (Public Law 114– 19
125), or other such authorizing language. 20
(b) To the extent that amounts realized from such 21
collections exceed $31,000,000, those amounts in excess 22
of $31,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation, to 23
remain available until expended. 24 24
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SEC. 205. None of the funds made available in this 1
Act for U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be used 2
to prevent an individual not in the business of importing 3
a prescription drug (within the meaning of section 801(g) 4
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) from im-5
porting a prescription drug from Canada that complies 6
with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Provided, 7
That this section shall apply only to individuals trans-8
porting on their person a personal-use quantity of the pre-9
scription drug, not to exceed a 90-day supply: Provided 10
further, That the prescription drug may not be— 11
(1) a controlled substance, as defined in section 12
102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 13
802); or 14
(2) a biological product, as defined in section 15
351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 16
262). 17
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EC. 206. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 18
of law, none of the funds provided in this or any other 19
Act shall be used to approve a waiver of the navigation 20
and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to section 501(b) of 21
title 46, United States Code, for the transportation of 22
crude oil distributed from and to the Strategic Petroleum 23
Reserve until the Secretary of Homeland Security, after 24
consultation with the Secretaries of the Departments of 25 25
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Energy and Transportation and representatives from the 1
United States flag maritime industry, takes adequate 2
measures to ensure the use of United States flag vessels. 3
(b) The Secretary shall notify the Committees on Ap-4
propriations of the Senate and the House of Representa-5
tives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-6
portation of the Senate, and the Committee on Transpor-7
tation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives 8
within 2 business days of any request for waivers of navi-9
gation and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to section 10
501(b) of title 46, United States Code, with respect to 11
such transportation, and the disposition of such requests. 12
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EC. 207. (a) Beginning on the date of enactment 13
of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 14
not— 15
(1) establish, collect, or otherwise impose any 16
new border crossing fee on individuals crossing the 17
Southern border or the Northern border at a land 18
port of entry; or 19
(2) conduct any study relating to the imposition 20
of a border crossing fee. 21
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘border crossing fee’’ 22
means a fee that every pedestrian, cyclist, and driver and 23
passenger of a private motor vehicle is required to pay 24 26
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for the privilege of crossing the Southern border or the 1
Northern border at a land port of entry. 2
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EC. 208. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date 3
of enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Cus-4
toms and Border Protection shall submit an expenditure 5
plan for any amounts made available for ‘‘U.S. Customs 6
and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, and 7
Improvements’’ in this Act and prior Acts to the Commit-8
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 9
Representatives. 10
(b) No such amounts provided in this Act may be 11
obligated prior to the submission of such plan. 12
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EC. 209. Section 211 of the Department of Home-13
land Security Appropriations Act, 2021 (division F of 14
Public Law 116–260), prohibiting the use of funds for the 15
construction of fencing in certain areas, shall apply with 16
respect to funds made available in this Act in the same 17
manner as such section applied to funds made available 18
in that Act. 19
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EC. 210. (a) Funds made available in this Act may 20
be used to alter operations within the National Targeting 21
Center of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 22
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, provided 23
by previous appropriations Acts that remain available for 24
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2024, or provided 25 27
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from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States 1
derived by the collection of fees available to the compo-2
nents funded by this Act, may be used to reduce antici-3
pated or planned vetting operations at existing locations 4
unless specifically authorized by a statute enacted after 5
the date of enactment of this Act. 6
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EC. 211. Of the total amount made available under 7
‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Procurement, 8
Construction, and Improvements’’, $1,152,529,000 shall 9
be available only as follows: 10
(1) $263,300,000 for the acquisition and de-11
ployment of border security technologies; 12
(2) $644,296,000 for trade and travel assets 13
and infrastructure; 14
(3) $69,654,000 for facility construction and 15
improvements including $66,000,000 for a Border 16
Patrol station in Houlton, Maine; 17
(4) $134,100,000 for integrated operations as-18
sets and infrastructure; and 19
(5) $41,179,000 for mission support and infra-20
structure. 21
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EC. 212. None of the funds provided under the 22
heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement— 23
Operations and Support’’ may be used to continue a dele-24
gation of law enforcement authority authorized under sec-25 28
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tion 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 1
U.S.C. 1357(g)) if the Department of Homeland Security 2
Inspector General determines that the terms of the agree-3
ment governing the delegation of authority have been ma-4
terially violated. 5
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EC. 213. (a) None of the funds provided under the 6
heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement— 7
Operations and Support’’ may be used to continue any 8
contract for the provision of detention services if the two 9
most recent overall performance evaluations received by 10
the contracted facility are less than ‘‘adequate’’ or the 11
equivalent median score in any subsequent performance 12
evaluation system. 13
(b) The performance evaluations referenced in sub-14
section (a) shall be conducted by the U.S. Immigration 15
and Customs Enforcement Office of Professional Respon-16
sibility. 17
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EC. 214. The reports required to be submitted under 18
section 216 of the Department of Homeland Security Ap-19
propriations Act, 2021 (division F of Public Law 116– 20
260) shall continue to be submitted semimonthly and each 21
matter required to be included in such reports by such 22
section 216 shall apply in the same manner and to the 23
same extent during the period described in such section 24
216. 25 29
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SEC. 215. The terms and conditions of sections 216 1
and 217 of the Department of Homeland Security Appro-2
priations Act, 2020 (division D of Public Law 116–93) 3
shall apply to this Act. 4
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EC. 216. (a) None of the funds provided under the 5
heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement— 6
Operations and Support’’ may be available for perform-7
ance awards for members of the Senior Executive Service 8
that occupy the positions as described in subsection (b) 9
prior to the submission of the plan described in subsection 10
(c). 11
(b) Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing 12
the Duties of the Director; Deputy Senior Official Per-13
forming the Duties of the Deputy Director; Executive As-14
sociate Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations; 15
Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Inves-16
tigations; Executive Associate Director Management and 17
Administration; Associate Director, Office of Professional 18
Responsibility; Principal Legal Advisor; Chief Financial 19
Officer; Assistant Director, Office of Congressional Af-20
fairs; and Chief of Staff. 21
(c) Not later than 90 days after the date of enact-22
ment of this Act, ICE shall submit a plan to realign the 23
position of the Chief Financial Officer by the end of Fiscal 24
Year 2024 so the position reports to the Director or Dep-25 30
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uty Director and the position is elevated to the equivalent 1
of an Executive Associate Director. 2
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EC. 217. (a) Not later than 30 days after the date 3
of enactment of this Act, and monthly thereafter, the Di-4
rector of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 5
shall provide the Committees on Appropriations of the 6
Senate and the House of Representatives a report de-7
scribed in the section ‘‘Monthly Reporting Require-8
ments.—’’ under the heading ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Cus-9
toms Enforcement—Operations and Support’’ in the re-10
port accompanying this Act. 11
(b) Such report shall be submitted by the tenth day 12
of each month. 13
(c) In the event that such report required under sub-14
sections (a) and (b) is not provided, the amount made 15
available for ‘‘Executive Leadership and Oversight’’ shall 16
be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day of non-17
compliance with subsections (a) and (b), and the amount 18
made available under such heading and specified for such 19
office in the detailed funding table in the report accom-20
panying this act shall be correspondingly reduced by an 21
equivalent amount. 22
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EC. 218. Members of the United States House of 23
Representatives and the United States Senate, including 24
the leadership; the heads of Federal agencies and commis-25 31
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sions, including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Under 1
Secretaries, and Assistant Secretaries of the Department 2
of Homeland Security; the United States Attorney Gen-3
eral, Deputy Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys Gen-4
eral, and the United States Attorneys; and senior mem-5
bers of the Executive Office of the President, including 6
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 7
shall not be exempt from Federal passenger and baggage 8
screening. 9
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EC. 219. Notwithstanding section 44923 of title 49, 10
United States Code, for fiscal year 2024, any funds in 11
the Aviation Security Capital Fund established by section 12
44923(h) of title 49, United States Code, may be used 13
for the procurement and installation of explosives detec-14
tion systems or for the issuance of other transaction agree-15
ments for the purpose of funding projects described in sec-16
tion 44923(a) of such title. 17
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EC. 220. Not later than 45 days after the submis-18
sion of the President’s budget proposal, the Administrator 19
of the Transportation Security Administration shall sub-20
mit to the Committees on Appropriations and Commerce, 21
Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Com-22
mittees on Appropriations and Homeland Security in the 23
House of Representatives a single report that fulfills the 24
following requirements: 25 32
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(1) a Capital Investment Plan, both constrained 1
and unconstrained, that includes a plan for contin-2
uous and sustained capital investment in new, and 3
the replacement of aged, transportation security 4
equipment; 5
(2) the 5-year technology investment plan as re-6
quired by section 1611 of title XVI of the Homeland 7
Security Act of 2002, as amended by section 3 of 8
the Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act 9
(Public Law 113–245); and 10
(3) the Advanced Integrated Passenger Screen-11
ing Technologies report as required by the Senate 12
Report accompanying the Department of Homeland 13
Security Appropriations Act, 2019 (Senate Report 14
115–283). 15
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EC. 221. (a) None of the funds made available by 16
this Act under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Operations 17
and Support’’ shall be for expenses incurred for rec-18
reational vessels under section 12114 of title 46, United 19
States Code, except to the extent fees are collected from 20
owners of yachts and credited to the appropriation made 21
available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard— 22
Operations and Support’’. 23
(b) To the extent such fees are insufficient to pay 24
expenses of recreational vessel documentation under such 25 33
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section 12114, and there is a backlog of recreational vessel 1
applications, personnel performing non-recreational vessel 2
documentation functions under subchapter II of chapter 3
121 of title 46, United States Code, may perform docu-4
mentation under section 12114. 5
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EC. 222. Without regard to the limitation as to time 6
and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, after June 7
30, in accordance with the notification requirement de-8
scribed in subsection (b) of such section, up to the fol-9
lowing amounts may be reprogrammed within ‘‘Coast 10
Guard—Operations and Support’’— 11
(1) $10,000,000 to or from the ‘‘Military Per-12
sonnel’’ funding category; and 13
(2) $10,000,000 between the ‘‘Field Oper-14
ations’’ funding subcategories. 15
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EC. 223. Notwithstanding any other provision of 16
law, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall submit 17
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 18
the House of Representatives a future-years capital invest-19
ment plan as described in the second proviso under the 20
heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Acquisition, Construction, and 21
Improvements’’ in the Department of Homeland Security 22
Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 114–4), which shall 23
be subject to the requirements in the third and fourth pro-24
visos under such heading. 25 34
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SEC. 224. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 1
to reduce the Coast Guard’s legacy Operations Systems 2
Center mission or its government-employed or contract 3
staff levels. 4
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EC. 225. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 5
may be used to conduct, or to implement the results of, 6
a competition under Office of Management and Budget 7
Circular A–76 for activities performed with respect to the 8
Coast Guard National Vessel Documentation Center. 9
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EC. 226. Funds made available in this Act may be 10
used to alter operations within the Civil Engineering Pro-11
gram of the Coast Guard nationwide, including civil engi-12
neering units, facilities design and construction centers, 13
maintenance and logistics commands, and the Coast 14
Guard Academy, except that none of the funds provided 15
in this Act may be used to reduce operations within any 16
civil engineering unit unless specifically authorized by a 17
statute enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 18
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EC. 227. Amounts deposited into the Coast Guard 19
Housing Fund in fiscal year 2024 shall be available until 20
expended to carry out the purposes of section 2946 of title 21
14, United States Code, and shall be in addition to funds 22
otherwise available for such purposes. 23
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EC. 228. (a) Notwithstanding section 2110 of title 24
46, United States Code, none of the funds made available 25 35
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in this Act shall be used to charge a fee for an inspection 1
of a towing vessel, as defined in 46 CFR 136.110, that 2
utilizes the Towing Safety Management System option for 3
a Certificate of Inspection issued under subchapter M of 4
title 46, Code of Federal Regulations. 5
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply after the date the 6
Commandant of the Coast Guard makes a determination 7
under section 815(a) of the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard 8
Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–282) and, as 9
necessary based on such determination, carries out the re-10
quirements of section 815(b) of such Act. 11
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EC. 229. The United States Secret Service is au-12
thorized to obligate funds in anticipation of reimburse-13
ments from executive agencies, as defined in section 105 14
of title 5, United States Code, for personnel receiving 15
training sponsored by the James J. Rowley Training Cen-16
ter, except that total obligations at the end of the fiscal 17
year shall not exceed total budgetary resources available 18
under the heading ‘‘United States Secret Service—Oper-19
ations and Support’’ at the end of the fiscal year. 20
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EC. 230. (a) None of the funds made available to 21
the United States Secret Service by this Act or by previous 22
appropriations Acts may be made available for the protec-23
tion of the head of a Federal agency other than the Sec-24
retary of Homeland Security. 25 36
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(b) The Director of the United States Secret Service 1
may enter into agreements to provide such protection on 2
a fully reimbursable basis. 3
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EC. 231. For purposes of section 503(a)(3) of this 4
Act, up to $15,000,000 may be reprogrammed within 5
‘‘United States Secret Service—Operations and Support’’. 6
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EC. 232. Funding made available in this Act for 7
‘‘United States Secret Service—Operations and Support’’ 8
is available for travel of United States Secret Service em-9
ployees on protective missions without regard to the limi-10
tations on such expenditures in this or any other Act if 11
the Director of the United States Secret Service or a des-12
ignee notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 13
Senate and the House of Representatives 10 or more days 14
in advance, or as early as practicable, prior to such ex-15
penditures. 16 37
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TITLE III 1
PROTECTION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND 2
RECOVERY 3
C
YBERSECURITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY 4
A
GENCY 5
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 6
For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-7
frastructure Security Agency for operations and support, 8
$2,401,752,000, of which $24,424,000 shall remain avail-9
able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-10
ceed $5,500 shall be for official reception and representa-11
tion expenses. 12
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 13
For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-14
frastructure Security Agency for procurement, construc-15
tion, and improvements, $605,334,000, to remain avail-16
able until September 30, 2026. 17
F
EDERALEMERGENCYMANAGEMENTAGENCY 18
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 19
For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency 20
Management Agency for operations and support, 21
$1,434,306,000: Provided, That not to exceed $2,250 shall 22
be for official reception and representation expenses. 23 38
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PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 1
For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency 2
Management Agency for procurement, construction, and 3
improvements, $100,420,000, of which $44,920,000 shall 4
remain available until September 30, 2026, and of which 5
$55,500,000 shall remain available until September 30, 6
2028: Provided, That of the amounts made available under 7
this heading for activities under the ‘‘revised nonsecurity 8
category’’, as defined in section 250(c)(4)(E) of the Bal-9
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 10
(Public Law 99–177), as amended, $33,020,000 is des-11
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-12
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-13
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 14
FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
For activities of the Federal Emergency Management 17
Agency for Federal assistance through grants, contracts, 18
cooperative agreements, and other activities, 19
$3,467,115,000, which shall be allocated as follows: 20
(1) $488,800,000 for the State Homeland Secu-21
rity Grant Program under section 2004 of the 22
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 605), of 23
which $84,600,000 shall be for Operation 24
Stonegarden and $14,100,000 shall be for Tribal 25 39
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Homeland Security Grants under section 2005 of 1
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 606): 2
Provided, That notwithstanding subsection (c)(4) of 3
such section 2004, for fiscal year 2024, the Com-4
monwealth of Puerto Rico shall make available to 5
local and tribal governments amounts provided to 6
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under this para-7
graph in accordance with subsection (c)(1) of such 8
section 2004. 9
(2) $578,100,000 for the Urban Area Security 10
Initiative under section 2003 of the Homeland Secu-11
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604). 12
(3) $286,700,000 for the Nonprofit Security 13
Grant Program under sections 2003 and 2004 of the 14
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604 and 15
605), of which $143,350,000 is for eligible recipients 16
located in high-risk urban areas that receive funding 17
under section 2003 of such Act and $143,350,000 is 18
for eligible recipients that are located outside such 19
areas: Provided, That eligible recipients are those 20
described in section 2009(b) of such Act (6 U.S.C. 21
609a(b)) or are an otherwise eligible recipient at risk 22
of a terrorist or other extremist attack. 23
(4) $98,700,000 for Public Transportation Se-24
curity Assistance, Railroad Security Assistance, and 25 40
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Over-the-Road Bus Security Assistance under sec-1
tions 1406, 1513, and 1532 of the Implementing 2
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 3
2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135, 1163, and 1182), of which 4
$9,400,000 shall be for Amtrak Security and 5
$1,880,000 shall be for Over-the-Road Bus Security: 6
Provided, That such public transportation security 7
assistance shall be provided directly to public trans-8
portation agencies. 9
(5) $94,000,000 for Port Security Grants in ac-10
cordance with section 70107 of title 46, United 11
States Code. 12
(6) $676,800,000, to remain available until 13
September 30, 2025, of which $338,400,000 shall be 14
for Assistance to Firefighter Grants and 15
$338,400,000 shall be for Staffing for Adequate 16
Fire and Emergency Response Grants under sec-17
tions 33 and 34 respectively of the Federal Fire Pre-18
vention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229 19
and 2229a). 20
(7) $333,700,000 for emergency management 21
performance grants under the National Flood Insur-22
ance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Rob-23
ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-24
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121), the Earthquake Haz-25 41
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ards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701), sec-1
tion 762 of title 6, United States Code, and Reorga-2
nization Plan No. 3 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 3
(8) $293,985,000 for necessary expenses for 4
Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis, in addi-5
tion to and to supplement any other sums appro-6
priated under the National Flood Insurance Fund, 7
and such additional sums as may be provided by 8
States or other political subdivisions for cost-shared 9
mapping activities under section 1360(f)(2) of the 10
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 11
4101(f)(2)), to remain available until expended. 12
(9) $11,280,000 for Regional Catastrophic Pre-13
paredness Grants. 14
(10) $122,200,000 for the emergency food and 15
shelter program under title III of the McKinney- 16
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331), 17
to remain available until September 30, 2025: Pro-18
vided, That not to exceed 3.5 percent shall be for 19
total administrative costs. 20
(11) $52,640,000 for the Next Generation 21
Warning System. 22
(12) $120,000,000 for Congressionally Directed 23
Spending grants, which shall be for the purposes, 24
and the amounts, specified in the table entitled 25 42
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‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ in the 1
report accompanying this Act, of which— 2
(A) $42,836,000, in addition to amounts 3
otherwise made available for such purpose, is 4
for emergency operations center grants under 5
section 614 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 6
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 7
U.S.C. 5196c); and 8
(B) $77,164,000, in addition to amounts 9
otherwise made available for such purpose, is 10
for pre-disaster mitigation grants under section 11
203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 12
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 13
5133(e), notwithstanding subsections (f), (g), 14
and (l) of that section (42 U.S.C. 5133(f), (g), 15
(l)). 16
(13) $310,210,000 for the sustainment of cur-17
rent operations for training, exercises, technical as-18
sistance, and other programs. 19
DISASTER RELIEF FUND 20
For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert 21
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 22
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $20,261,000,000, to remain 23
available until expended: Provided, That such amount 24
shall be for major disasters declared pursuant to the Rob-25 43
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ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 1
Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and is designated by the 2
Congress as being for disaster relief pursuant to section 3
251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 4
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 5
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND 6
For activities under the National Flood Insurance 7
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Flood Disaster 8
Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the 9
Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 10
(Public Law 112–141, 126 Stat. 916), and the Home-11
owner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (Public 12
Law 113–89; 128 Stat. 1020), $239,983,000, to remain 13
available until September 30, 2025, which shall be derived 14
from offsetting amounts collected under section 1308(d) 15
of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 16
4015(d)); of which $18,917,000 shall be available for mis-17
sion support associated with flood management; and of 18
which $221,066,000 shall be available for flood plain man-19
agement and flood mapping: Provided, That any addi-20
tional fees collected pursuant to section 1308(d) of the 21
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 22
4015(d)) shall be credited as offsetting collections to this 23
account, to be available for flood plain management and 24
flood mapping: Provided further, That in fiscal year 2024, 25 44
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no funds shall be available from the National Flood Insur-1
ance Fund under section 1310 of the National Flood In-2
surance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4017) in excess of— 3
(1) $230,504,000 for operating expenses and 4
salaries and expenses associated with flood insurance 5
operations; 6
(2) $1,300,000,000 for commissions and taxes 7
of agents; 8
(3) such sums as are necessary for interest on 9
Treasury borrowings; and 10
(4) $175,000,000, which shall remain available 11
until expended, for flood mitigation actions and for 12
flood mitigation assistance under section 1366 of the 13
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 14
4104c), notwithstanding sections 1366(e) and 15
1310(a)(7) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e), 4017): 16
Provided further, That the amounts collected under section 17
102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 18
U.S.C. 4012a) and section 1366(e) of the National Flood 19
Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e)), shall be de-20
posited in the National Flood Insurance Fund to supple-21
ment other amounts specified as available for section 1366 22
of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, notwith-23
standing section 102(f)(8), section 1366(e) of the National 24
Flood Insurance Act of 1968, and paragraphs (1) through 25 45
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(3) of section 1367(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4012a(f)(8), 1
4104c(e), 4104d(b)(1)–(3)): Provided further, That total 2
administrative costs shall not exceed 4 percent of the total 3
appropriation: Provided further, That up to $5,000,000 is 4
available to carry out section 24 of the Homeowner Flood 5
Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (42 U.S.C. 4033). 6
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 7
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 8
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EC. 301. Funds made available under the heading 9
‘‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—Op-10
erations and Support’’ may be made available for the nec-11
essary expenses of procuring or providing access to cyber-12
security threat feeds for branches, agencies, independent 13
agencies, corporations, establishments, and instrumental-14
ities of the Federal Government of the United States, 15
state, local, tribal, and territorial entities, fusion centers 16
as described in section 210A of the Homeland Security 17
Act (6 U.S.C. 124h), and Information and Analysis Orga-18
nizations. 19
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EC. 302. (a) The Director of the Cybersecurity and 20
Infrastructure Security Agency (or the Director’s des-21
ignee) shall provide the briefings to the Committees on 22
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Represent-23
atives described under the heading ‘‘Quarterly Budget and 24
Staffing Briefings’’ in the report accompanying this bill— 25 46
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(1) with respect to the first quarter of fiscal 1
year 2024, not later than the later of 30 days after 2
the date of enactment of this Act or January 30, 3
2024; and 4
(2) with respect to each subsequent fiscal quar-5
ter in fiscal year 2024, not later than 21 days after 6
the end of each such quarter. 7
(b) In the event that any such briefing required dur-8
ing this fiscal year under subsection (a) is not provided, 9
the amount made available in title III to the Cybersecurity 10
and Infrastructure Security Agency under the heading 11
‘‘Operations and Support’’ shall be reduced by $50,000 12
for each day of noncompliance with subsection (a), and 13
the amount made available under such heading and speci-14
fied in the detailed funding table in the report accom-15
panying this Act for Mission Support management and 16
business activities shall be correspondingly reduced by an 17
equivalent amount. 18
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EC. 303. (a) Notwithstanding section 2008(a)(12) 19
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 20
609(a)(12)) or any other provision of law, not more than 21
5 percent of the amount of a grant made available in para-22
graphs (1) through (5) under ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-23
agement Agency—Federal Assistance’’, may be used by 24 47
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the recipient for expenses directly related to administra-1
tion of the grant. 2
(b) The authority provided in subsection (a) shall also 3
apply to a state recipient for the administration of a grant 4
under such paragraph (3). 5
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EC. 304. Notwithstanding section 2004(e)(1) of the 6
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 605(e)(1)), the 7
meaning of ‘‘total funds appropriated for grants under 8
this section and section 2003’’ in each place that it ap-9
pears shall not include any funds provided for the Non-10
profit Security Grant Program in paragraph (3) under the 11
heading ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency—Fed-12
eral Assistance’’ in this Act. 13
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EC. 305. Applications for grants under the heading 14
‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal As-15
sistance’’, for paragraphs (1) through (5), shall be made 16
available to eligible applicants not later than 60 days after 17
the date of enactment of this Act, eligible applicants shall 18
submit applications not later than 80 days after the grant 19
announcement, and the Administrator of the Federal 20
Emergency Management Agency shall act within 65 days 21
after the receipt of an application. 22
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EC. 306. (a) Under the heading ‘‘Federal Emer-23
gency Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, for 24
grants under paragraphs (1) through (5) and (9), the Ad-25 48
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ministrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-1
cy shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the 2
Senate and the House of Representatives 5 full business 3
days in advance of announcing publicly the intention of 4
making an award. 5
(b) If any such public announcement is made before 6
5 full business days have elapsed following such briefing, 7
$1,000,000 of amounts appropriated by this Act for ‘‘Fed-8
eral Emergency Management Agency—Operations and 9
Support’’ shall be rescinded. 10
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EC. 307. Under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency 11
Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, for grants 12
under paragraphs (1) and (2), the installation of commu-13
nications towers is not considered construction of a build-14
ing or other physical facility. 15
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EC. 308. The reporting requirements in paragraphs 16
(1) and (2) under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-17
agement Agency—Disaster Relief Fund’’ in the Depart-18
ment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 19
(Public Law 114–4), related to reporting on the Disaster 20
Relief Fund, shall be applied in fiscal year 2024 with re-21
spect to budget year 2025 and current fiscal year 2024, 22
respectively— 23
(1) in paragraph (1) by substituting ‘‘fiscal 24
year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2016’’; and 25 49
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(2) in paragraph (2) by inserting ‘‘business’’ 1
after ‘‘fifth’’. 2
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EC. 309. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fed-3
eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assist-4
ance’’, for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Re-5
sponse grants, the Administrator of the Federal Emer-6
gency Management Agency may grant waivers from the 7
requirements in subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), 8
(a)(1)(E), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section 34 of the 9
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 10
U.S.C. 2229a). 11
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EC. 310. (a) The aggregate charges assessed during 12
fiscal year 2024, as authorized in title III of the Depart-13
ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-14
opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 15
1999 (42 U.S.C. 5196e), shall not be less than 100 per-16
cent of the amounts anticipated by the Department of 17
Homeland Security to be necessary for its Radiological 18
Emergency Preparedness Program for the next fiscal year. 19
(b) The methodology for assessment and collection of 20
fees shall be fair and equitable and shall reflect costs of 21
providing such services, including administrative costs of 22
collecting such fees. 23
(c) Such fees shall be deposited in a Radiological 24
Emergency Preparedness Program account as offsetting 25 50
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collections and will become available for authorized pur-1
poses on October 1, 2024, and remain available until ex-2
pended. 3
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EC. 311. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fed-4
eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assist-5
ance’’, for Assistance to Firefighter Grants, the Adminis-6
trator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 7
may waive subsection (k) of section 33 of the Federal Fire 8
Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229). 9
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EC. 312. Any unobligated balances of funds appro-10
priated in any prior Act for activities funded by the Na-11
tional Predisaster Mitigation Fund under section 203 of 12
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-13
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133), as in effect on the day 14
before the date of enactment of section 1234 of division 15
D of Public Law 115–254, may be transferred to and 16
merged with funds set aside pursuant to subsection (i)(1) 17
of section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 18
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133), as in 19
effect on the date of the enactment of this section. 20
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EC. 313. Any unobligated balances of funds appro-21
priated under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency Manage-22
ment Agency—Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis 23
Program’’ in any prior Act may be transferred to and 24
merged with funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Fed-25 51
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eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assist-1
ance’’ for necessary expenses for Flood Hazard Mapping 2
and Risk Analysis: Provided, That funds transferred pur-3
suant to this section shall be in addition to and supple-4
ment any other sums appropriated for such purposes 5
under the National Flood Insurance Fund and such addi-6
tional sums as may be provided by States or other political 7
subdivisions for cost-shared mapping activities under sec-8
tion 1360(f)(2) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 9
1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101(f)(2)), to remain available until ex-10
pended. 11
TITLE IV 12
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND 13
SERVICES 14
U.S. C
ITIZENSHIP ANDIMMIGRATIONSERVICES 15
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 16
For necessary expenses of U.S. Citizenship and Im-17
migration Services for operations and support, including 18
for the E-Verify Program and for the Refugee and Inter-19
national Operations Programs, $432,161,000: Provided, 20
That such amounts shall be in addition to any other 21
amounts made available for such purposes, and shall not 22
be construed to require any reduction of any fee described 23
in section 286(m) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 24
(8 U.S.C. 1356(m)): Provided further, That not to exceed 25 52
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$5,000 shall be for official reception and representation 1
expenses: Provided further, That of the amounts made 2
available under this heading, $183,000,000 is designated 3
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 4
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-5
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 6
FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 7
For necessary expenses of U.S. Citizenship and Im-8
migration Services for Federal assistance for the Citizen-9
ship and Integration Grant Program, $23,500,000, to re-10
main available until September 30, 2025. 11
F
EDERALLAWENFORCEMENTTRAININGCENTERS 12
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 13
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-14
ment Training Centers for operations and support, includ-15
ing the purchase of not to exceed 117 vehicles for police- 16
type use and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services 17
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 18
Code, $352,611,000, of which $66,665,000 shall remain 19
available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not 20
to exceed $7,180 shall be for official reception and rep-21
resentation expenses. 22
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 23
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-24
ment Training Centers for procurement, construction, and 25 53
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improvements, $8,000,000, to remain available until Sep-1
tember 30, 2028, for acquisition of necessary additional 2
real property and facilities, construction and ongoing 3
maintenance, facility improvements and related expenses 4
of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers: Pro-5
vided, That the amounts made available under this head-6
ing are designated by the Congress as being for an emer-7
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of 8
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 9
of 1985. 10
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CIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGYDIRECTORATE 11
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 12
For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-13
nology Directorate for operations and support, including 14
the purchase or lease of not to exceed 5 vehicles, 15
$367,183,000, of which $205,558,000 shall remain avail-16
able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-17
ceed $10,000 shall be for official reception and representa-18
tion expenses. 19
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 20
For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-21
nology Directorate for procurement, construction, and im-22
provements, $43,579,000, to remain available until Sep-23
tember 30, 2028. 24 54
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 1
For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-2
nology Directorate for research and development, 3
$352,496,000, to remain available until September 30, 4
2026. 5
C
OUNTERINGWEAPONS OFMASSDESTRUCTIONOFFICE 6
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 7
For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 8
of Mass Destruction Office for operations and support, 9
$156,946,000, of which $50,446,000 shall remain avail-10
able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That not to ex-11
ceed $2,250 shall be for official reception and representa-12
tion expenses. 13
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 14
For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 15
of Mass Destruction Office for procurement, construction, 16
and improvements, $15,360,000, to remain available until 17
September 30, 2026. 18
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 19
For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 20
of Mass Destruction Office for research and development, 21
$48,751,000, to remain available until September 30, 22
2026. 23 55
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FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 1
For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons 2
of Mass Destruction Office for Federal assistance through 3
grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other ac-4
tivities, $132,764,000, to remain available until Sep-5
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That of the amounts made 6
available under this heading, $2,000,000 is designated by 7
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pur-8
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 9
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 10
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 11
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EC. 401. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 12
of law, funds otherwise made available to U.S. Citizenship 13
and Immigration Services may be used to acquire, operate, 14
equip, and dispose of up to 5 vehicles, for replacement 15
only, for areas where the Administrator of General Serv-16
ices does not provide vehicles for lease. 17
(b) The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 18
Services may authorize employees who are assigned to 19
those areas to use such vehicles to travel between the em-20
ployees’ residences and places of employment. 21
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EC. 402. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 22
may be used to process or approve a competition under 23
Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 for serv-24
ices provided by employees (including employees serving 25 56
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on a temporary or term basis) of U.S. Citizenship and Im-1
migration Services of the Department of Homeland Secu-2
rity who are known as Immigration Information Officers, 3
Immigration Service Analysts, Contact Representatives, 4
Investigative Assistants, or Immigration Services Officers. 5
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EC. 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of 6
law, any Federal funds made available to U.S. Citizenship 7
and Immigration Services may be used for the collection 8
and use of biometrics taken at a U.S. Citizenship and Im-9
migration Services Application Support Center that is 10
overseen virtually by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 11
Services personnel using appropriate technology. 12
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EC. 404. The Director of the Federal Law Enforce-13
ment Training Centers is authorized to distribute funds 14
to Federal law enforcement agencies for expenses incurred 15
participating in training accreditation. 16
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EC. 405. The Federal Law Enforcement Training 17
Accreditation Board, including representatives from the 18
Federal law enforcement community and non-Federal ac-19
creditation experts involved in law enforcement training, 20
shall lead the Federal law enforcement training accredita-21
tion process to continue the implementation of measuring 22
and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law 23
enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. 24 57
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SEC. 406. (a) The Director of the Federal Law En-1
forcement Training Centers may accept transfers to its 2
‘‘Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’’ account 3
from Government agencies requesting the construction of 4
special use facilities, as authorized by the Economy Act 5
(31 U.S.C. 1535(b)). 6
(b) The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers 7
shall maintain administrative control and ownership upon 8
completion of such facilities. 9
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EC. 407. The functions of the Federal Law Enforce-10
ment Training Centers instructor staff shall be classified 11
as inherently governmental for purposes of the Federal 12
Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 13
note). 14 58
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TITLE V 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 3
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EC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in 4
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 5
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 6
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EC. 502. Subject to the requirements of section 503 7
of this Act, the unexpended balances of prior appropria-8
tions provided for activities in this Act may be transferred 9
to appropriation accounts for such activities established 10
pursuant to this Act, may be merged with funds in the 11
applicable established accounts, and thereafter may be ac-12
counted for as one fund for the same time period as origi-13
nally enacted. 14
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EC. 503. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 15
provided by previous appropriations Acts to the compo-16
nents in or transferred to the Department of Homeland 17
Security that remain available for obligation or expendi-18
ture in fiscal year 2024, or provided from any accounts 19
in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collec-20
tion of fees available to the components funded by this 21
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 22
through a reprogramming of funds that— 23
(1) creates or eliminates a program, project, or 24
activity, or increases funds for any program, project, 25 59
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or activity for which funds have been denied or re-1
stricted by the Congress; 2
(2) contracts out any function or activity pres-3
ently performed by Federal employees or any new 4
function or activity proposed to be performed by 5
Federal employees in the President’s budget pro-6
posal for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of 7
Homeland Security; 8
(3) augments funding for existing programs, 9
projects, or activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 10
percent, whichever is less; 11
(4) reduces funding for any program, project, 12
or activity, or numbers of personnel, by 10 percent 13
or more; or 14
(5) results from any general savings from a re-15
duction in personnel that would result in a change 16
in funding levels for programs, projects, or activities 17
as approved by the Congress. 18
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Committees 19
on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Rep-20
resentatives are notified at least 30 days in advance of 21
such reprogramming. 22
(c) Up to 5 percent of any appropriation made avail-23
able for the current fiscal year for the Department of 24
Homeland Security by this Act or provided by previous 25 60
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appropriations Acts may be transferred between such ap-1
propriations if the Committees on Appropriations of the 2
Senate and the House of Representatives are notified at 3
least 30 days in advance of such transfer, but no such 4
appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 5
shall be increased by more than 10 percent by such trans-6
fer. 7
(d) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c), no 8
funds shall be reprogrammed within or transferred be-9
tween appropriations based upon an initial notification 10
provided after June 15, except in extraordinary cir-11
cumstances that imminently threaten the safety of human 12
life or the protection of property. 13
(e) The notification thresholds and procedures set 14
forth in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall apply to 15
any use of deobligated balances of funds provided in pre-16
vious Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 17
Acts that remain available for obligation in the current 18
year. 19
(f) Notwithstanding subsection (c), the Secretary of 20
Homeland Security may transfer to the fund established 21
by 8 U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 from appro-22
priations available to the Department of Homeland Secu-23
rity: Provided, That the Secretary shall notify the Com-24
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 25 61
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of Representatives at least 5 days in advance of such 1
transfer. 2
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EC. 504. (a) Section 504 of the Department of 3
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017 (division F 4
of Public Law 115–31), related to the operations of a 5
working capital fund, shall apply with respect to funds 6
made available in this Act in the same manner as such 7
section applied to funds made available in that Act. 8
(b) Funds from such working capital fund may be 9
obligated and expended in anticipation of reimbursements 10
from components of the Department of Homeland Secu-11
rity. 12
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EC. 505. (a) Except as otherwise specifically pro-13
vided by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated bal-14
ances remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2024, 15
as recorded in the financial records at the time of a re-16
programming notification, but not later than June 30, 17
2025, from appropriations for ‘‘Operations and Support’’ 18
for fiscal year 2024 in this Act shall remain available 19
through September 30, 2025, in the account and for the 20
purposes for which the appropriations were provided. 21
(b) Prior to the obligation of such funds, a notifica-22
tion shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropria-23
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives in 24
accordance with section 503 of this Act. 25 62
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SEC. 506. (a) Funds made available by this Act for 1
intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically author-2
ized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the 3
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fis-4
cal year 2024 until the enactment of an Act authorizing 5
intelligence activities for fiscal year 2024. 6
(b) Amounts described in subsection (a) made avail-7
able for ‘‘Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Aware-8
ness—Operations and Support’’ that exceed the amounts 9
in such authorization for such account shall be transferred 10
to and merged with amounts made available under the 11
heading ‘‘Management Directorate—Operations and Sup-12
port’’. 13
(c) Prior to the obligation of any funds transferred 14
under subsection (b), the Management Directorate shall 15
brief the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 16
the House of Representatives on a plan for the use of such 17
funds. 18
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EC. 507. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 19
or the designee of the Secretary, shall notify the Commit-20
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 21
Representatives at least 3 full business days in advance 22
of— 23
(1) making or awarding a grant allocation or 24
grant in excess of $1,000,000; 25 63
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(2) making or awarding a contract, other trans-1
action agreement, or task or delivery order on a De-2
partment of Homeland Security multiple award con-3
tract, or to issue a letter of intent totaling in excess 4
of $4,000,000; 5
(3) awarding a task or delivery order requiring 6
an obligation of funds in an amount greater than 7
$10,000,000 from multi-year Department of Home-8
land Security funds; 9
(4) making a sole-source grant award; or 10
(5) announcing publicly the intention to make 11
or award items under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4), 12
including a contract covered by the Federal Acquisi-13
tion Regulation. 14
(b) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 15
that compliance with this section would pose a substantial 16
risk to human life, health, or safety, an award may be 17
made without notification, and the Secretary shall notify 18
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 19
House of Representatives not later than 5 full business 20
days after such an award is made or letter issued. 21
(c) A notification under this section— 22
(1) may not involve funds that are not available 23
for obligation; and 24 64
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(2) shall include the amount of the award; the 1
fiscal year for which the funds for the award were 2
appropriated; the type of contract; and the account 3
from which the funds are being drawn. 4
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EC. 508. Notwithstanding any other provision of 5
law, no agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any ad-6
ditional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing 7
locations, to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal 8
law enforcement training without advance notification to 9
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 10
House of Representatives, except that the Federal Law 11
Enforcement Training Centers is authorized to obtain the 12
temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, 13
or other agreement for training that cannot be accommo-14
dated in existing Centers’ facilities. 15
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EC. 509. None of the funds appropriated or other-16
wise made available by this Act may be used for expenses 17
for any construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition 18
project for which a prospectus otherwise required under 19
chapter 33 of title 40, United States Code, has not been 20
approved, except that necessary funds may be expended 21
for each project for required expenses for the development 22
of a proposed prospectus. 23
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EC. 510. Sections 522 and 530 of the Department 24
of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (division 25 65
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E of Public Law 110–161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 2074) shall 1
apply with respect to funds made available in this Act in 2
the same manner as such sections applied to funds made 3
available in that Act. 4
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EC. 511. (a) None of the funds made available in 5
this Act may be used in contravention of the applicable 6
provisions of the Buy American Act. 7
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), the term ‘‘Buy 8
American Act’’ means chapter 83 of title 41, United 9
States Code. 10
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EC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 11
Act may be used to amend the oath of allegiance required 12
by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 13
(8 U.S.C. 1448). 14
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EC. 513. None of the funds provided or otherwise 15
made available in this Act shall be available to carry out 16
section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 17
U.S.C. 452) unless explicitly authorized by the Congress. 18
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EC. 514. None of the funds made available in this 19
Act may be used for planning, testing, piloting, or devel-20
oping a national identification card. 21
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EC. 515. Any official that is required by this Act 22
to report or to certify to the Committees on Appropria-23
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives may 24 66
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not delegate such authority to perform that act unless spe-1
cifically authorized herein. 2
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EC. 516. None of the funds made available in this 3
Act may be used for first-class travel by the employees 4
of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 5
301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Fed-6
eral Regulations. 7
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EC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 8
Act may be used to employ workers described in section 9
274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 10
U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 11
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EC. 518. Notwithstanding any other provision of 12
this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 13
made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 14
incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 15
judged to be below satisfactory performance or perform-16
ance that does not meet the basic requirements of a con-17
tract. 18
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EC. 519. (a) None of the funds made available in 19
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 20
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 21
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 22
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 23
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, territorial, 24
or local law enforcement agency or any other entity car-25 67
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rying out criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudica-1
tion activities. 2
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EC. 520. None of the funds made available in this 3
Act may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to 4
facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-5
vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-6
pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless 7
law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-8
ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 9
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EC. 521. (a) None of the funds made available in 10
this Act may be used to pay for the travel to or attendance 11
of more than 50 employees of a single component of the 12
Department of Homeland Security, who are stationed in 13
the United States, at a single international conference un-14
less the Secretary of Homeland Security, or a designee, 15
determines that such attendance is in the national interest 16
and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the Sen-17
ate and the House of Representatives within at least 10 18
days of that determination and the basis for that deter-19
mination. 20
(b) For purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-21
national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring 22
outside of the United States attended by representatives 23
of the United States Government and of foreign govern-24 68
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ments, international organizations, or nongovernmental 1
organizations. 2
(c) The total cost to the Department of Homeland 3
Security of any such conference shall not exceed $500,000. 4
(d) Employees who attend a conference virtually 5
without travel away from their permanent duty station 6
within the United States shall not be counted for purposes 7
of this section, and the prohibition contained in this sec-8
tion shall not apply to payments for the costs of attend-9
ance for such employees. 10
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EC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 11
Act may be used to reimburse any Federal department 12
or agency for its participation in a National Special Secu-13
rity Event. 14
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EC. 523. (a) None of the funds made available to 15
the Department of Homeland Security by this or any other 16
Act may be obligated for the implementation of any struc-17
tural pay reform or the introduction of any new position 18
classification that will affect more than 100 full-time posi-19
tions or costs more than $5,000,000 in a single year be-20
fore the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date 21
on which the Secretary of Homeland Security submits to 22
Congress a notification that includes— 23
(1) the number of full-time positions affected by 24
such change; 25 69
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(2) funding required for such change for the 1
current fiscal year and through the Future Years 2
Homeland Security Program; 3
(3) justification for such change; and 4
(4) for a structural pay reform, an analysis of 5
compensation alternatives to such change that were 6
considered by the Department. 7
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to such change if— 8
(1) it was proposed in the President’s budget 9
proposal for the fiscal year funded by this Act; and 10
(2) funds for such change have not been explic-11
itly denied or restricted in this Act. 12
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EC. 524. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-13
able in this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 14
post on the public website of that agency any report re-15
quired to be submitted by the Committees on Appropria-16
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives in 17
this Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency 18
that it shall serve the national interest. 19
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 20
(1) the public posting of the report com-21
promises homeland or national security; or 22
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 23
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 24
do so only after such report has been made available to 25 70
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the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 1
House of Representatives for not less than 45 days except 2
as otherwise specified in law. 3
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EC. 525. (a) Funding provided in this Act for ‘‘Op-4
erations and Support’’ may be used for minor procure-5
ment, construction, and improvements. 6
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), ‘‘minor’’ refers 7
to end items with a unit cost of $250,000 or less for per-8
sonal property, and $2,000,000 or less for real property. 9
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EC. 526. The authority provided by section 532 of 10
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 11
Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141) regarding primary and 12
secondary schooling of dependents shall continue in effect 13
during fiscal year 2024. 14
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EC. 527. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-15
erwise made available to the Department of Homeland Se-16
curity by this Act may be used to prevent any of the fol-17
lowing persons from entering, for the purpose of con-18
ducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the De-19
partment of Homeland Security used to detain or other-20
wise house aliens, or to make any temporary modification 21
at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed 22
by a visiting Member of Congress or such designated em-23
ployee, compared to what would be observed in the absence 24
of such modification: 25 71
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(1) A Member of Congress. 1
(2) An employee of the United States House of 2
Representatives or the United States Senate des-3
ignated by such a Member for the purposes of this 4
section. 5
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to re-6
quire a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the 7
intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a) for 8
the purpose of conducting oversight. 9
(c) With respect to individuals described in subsection 10
(a)(2), the Department of Homeland Security may require 11
that a request be made at least 24 hours in advance of 12
an intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a). 13
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EC. 528. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 14
none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 15
to place restraints on a woman in the custody of the De-16
partment of Homeland Security (including during trans-17
port, in a detention facility, or at an outside medical facil-18
ity) who is pregnant or in post-delivery recuperation. 19
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 20
pregnant woman if— 21
(1) an appropriate official of the Department of 22
Homeland Security makes an individualized deter-23
mination that the woman— 24 72
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(A) is a serious flight risk, and such risk 1
cannot be prevented by other means; or 2
(B) poses an immediate and serious threat 3
to harm herself or others that cannot be pre-4
vented by other means; or 5
(2) a medical professional responsible for the 6
care of the pregnant woman determines that the use 7
of therapeutic restraints is appropriate for the med-8
ical safety of the woman. 9
(c) If a pregnant woman is restrained pursuant to 10
subsection (b), only the safest and least restrictive re-11
straints, as determined by the appropriate medical profes-12
sional treating the woman, may be used. In no case may 13
restraints be used on a woman who is in active labor or 14
delivery, and in no case may a pregnant woman be re-15
strained in a face-down position with four-point restraints, 16
on her back, or in a restraint belt that constricts the area 17
of the pregnancy. A pregnant woman who is immobilized 18
by restraints shall be positioned, to the maximum extent 19
feasible, on her left side. 20
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EC. 529. (a) None of the funds made available by 21
this Act may be used to destroy any document, recording, 22
or other record pertaining to any— 23
(1) death of, 24 73
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(2) potential sexual assault or abuse per-1
petrated against, or 2
(3) allegation of abuse, criminal activity, or dis-3
ruption committed by 4
an individual held in the custody of the Department of 5
Homeland Security. 6
(b) The records referred to in subsection (a) shall be 7
made available, in accordance with applicable laws and 8
regulations, and Federal rules governing disclosure in liti-9
gation, to an individual who has been charged with a 10
crime, been placed into segregation, or otherwise punished 11
as a result of an allegation described in paragraph (3), 12
upon the request of such individual. 13
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EC. 530. Section 519 of division F of Public Law 14
114–113, regarding a prohibition on funding for any posi-15
tion designated as a Principal Federal Official, shall apply 16
with respect to any Federal funds in the same manner 17
as such section applied to funds made available in that 18
Act. 19
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EC. 531. (a) Not later than 10 days after the date 20
on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is 21
submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 22
31, United States Code, the Under Secretary for Manage-23
ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Commit-24
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 25 74
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Representatives a report on the unfunded priorities, for 1
the Department of Homeland Security and separately for 2
each departmental component, for which discretionary 3
funding would be classified as budget function 050. 4
(b) Each report under this section shall specify, for 5
each such unfunded priority— 6
(1) a summary description, including the objec-7
tives to be achieved if such priority is funded 8
(whether in whole or in part); 9
(2) the description, including the objectives to 10
be achieved if such priority is funded (whether in 11
whole or in part); 12
(3) account information, including the following 13
(as applicable): 14
(A) appropriation account; and 15
(B) program, project, or activity name; 16
and 17
(4) the additional number of full-time or part- 18
time positions to be funded as part of such priority. 19
(c) In this section, the term ‘‘unfunded priority’’, in 20
the case of a fiscal year, means a requirement that— 21
(1) is not funded in the budget referred to in 22
subsection (a); 23 75
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(2) is necessary to fulfill a requirement associ-1
ated with an operational or contingency plan for the 2
Department; and 3
(3) would have been recommended for funding 4
through the budget referred to in subsection (a) if— 5
(A) additional resources had been available 6
for the budget to fund the requirement; 7
(B) the requirement has emerged since the 8
budget was formulated; or 9
(C) the requirement is necessary to sustain 10
prior-year investments. 11
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EC. 532. (a) Not later than 10 days after a deter-12
mination is made by the President to evaluate and initiate 13
protection under any authority for a former or retired 14
Government official or employee, or for an individual who, 15
during the duration of the directed protection, will become 16
a former or retired Government official or employee (re-17
ferred to in this section as a ‘‘covered individual’’), the 18
Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a notifica-19
tion to congressional leadership and the Committees on 20
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Represent-21
atives, the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and 22
the House of Representatives, the Committee on Home-23
land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the 24
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Rep-25 76
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resentatives, and the Committee on Oversight and Reform 1
of the House of Representatives (referred to in this section 2
as the ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’). 3
(b) Such notification may be submitted in classified 4
form, if necessary, and in consultation with the Director 5
of National Intelligence or the Director of the Federal Bu-6
reau of Investigation, as appropriate, and shall include the 7
threat assessment, scope of the protection, and the antici-8
pated cost and duration of such protection. 9
(c) Not later than 15 days before extending, or 30 10
days before terminating, protection for a covered indi-11
vidual, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 12
a notification regarding the extension or termination and 13
any change to the threat assessment to the congressional 14
leadership and the appropriate congressional committees. 15
(d) Not later than 45 days after the date of enact-16
ment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter, the Secretary 17
shall submit a report to the congressional leadership and 18
the appropriate congressional committees, which may be 19
submitted in classified form, if necessary, detailing each 20
covered individual, and the scope and associated cost of 21
protection. 22
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EC. 533. (a) None of the funds provided to the De-23
partment of Homeland Security in this or any prior Act 24
may be used by an agency to submit an initial project pro-25 77
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posal to the Technology Modernization Fund (as author-1
ized by section 1078 of subtitle G of title X of the National 2
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public 3
Law 115–91)) unless, concurrent with the submission of 4
an initial project proposal to the Technology Moderniza-5
tion Board, the head of the agency— 6
(1) notifies the Committees on Appropriations 7
of the Senate and the House of Representatives of 8
the proposed submission of the project proposal; 9
(2) submits to the Committees on Appropria-10
tions a copy of the project proposal; and 11
(3) provides a detailed analysis of how the pro-12
posed project funding would supplement or supplant 13
funding requested as part of the Department’s most 14
recent budget submission. 15
(b) None of the funds provided to the Department 16
of Homeland Security by the Technology Modernization 17
Fund shall be available for obligation until 15 days after 18
a report on such funds has been transmitted to the Com-19
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 20
of Representatives. 21
(c) The report described in subsection (b) shall in-22
clude— 23 78
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(1) the full project proposal submitted to and 1
approved by the Fund’s Technology Modernization 2
Board; 3
(2) the finalized interagency agreement between 4
the Department and the Fund including the 5
project’s deliverables and repayment terms, as appli-6
cable; 7
(3) a detailed analysis of how the project will 8
supplement or supplant existing funding available to 9
the Department for similar activities; 10
(4) a plan for how the Department will repay 11
the Fund, including specific planned funding 12
sources, as applicable; and 13
(5) other information as determined by the Sec-14
retary. 15
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EC. 534. Within 60 days of any budget submission 16
for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 17
2025 that assumes revenues or proposes a reduction from 18
the previous year based on user fees proposals that have 19
not been enacted into law prior to the submission of the 20
budget, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide 21
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 22
House of Representatives specific reductions in proposed 23
discretionary budget authority commensurate with the 24 79
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revenues assumed in such proposals in the event that they 1
are not enacted prior to October 1, 2024. 2
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EC. 535. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 4
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 5
ratification for the Treaty. 6
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EC. 536. No Federal funds made available to the 7
Department of Homeland Security may be used to enter 8
into a procurement contract, memorandum of under-9
standing, or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant 10
to, or provide a loan or guarantee to, any entity identified 11
under section 1260H of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 12
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 13
(Public Law 116–283) or any subsidiary of such entity. 14
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EC. 537. None of the funds appropriated or other-15
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 16
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 17
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 18
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 19
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 20
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 21
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 22
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 23
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 24 80
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SEC. 538. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 1
(in this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall, on 2
a bimonthly basis beginning immediately after the date of 3
enactment of this Act, develop estimates of the number 4
of noncitizens anticipated to arrive at the southwest bor-5
der of the United States. 6
(b) The Secretary shall ensure that, at a minimum, 7
the estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a)— 8
(1) cover the current fiscal year and the fol-9
lowing fiscal year; 10
(2) include a breakout by demographics, to in-11
clude single adults, family units, and unaccompanied 12
children; 13
(3) undergo an independent validation and 14
verification review; 15
(4) are used to inform policy planning and 16
budgeting processes within the Department of 17
Homeland Security; and 18
(5) are included in the budget materials sub-19
mitted to Congress for each fiscal year beginning 20
after the date of enactment of this Act and in sup-21
port of— 22
(A) the President’s annual budget request 23
pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 24
States Code; 25 81
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(B) any supplemental funding request sub-1
mitted to Congress; 2
(C) any reprogramming and transfer noti-3
fication pursuant to section 503 of this Act; 4
and 5
(D) such budget materials shall include— 6
(i) the most recent bimonthly esti-7
mates developed pursuant to subsection 8
(a); 9
(ii) a description and quantification of 10
the estimates used to justify funding re-11
quests for Department programs related to 12
border security, immigration enforcement, 13
and immigration services; 14
(iii) a description and quantification 15
of the anticipated workload and require-16
ments resulting from such estimates; and 17
(iv) a confirmation as to whether the 18
budget requests for impacted agencies were 19
developed using the same estimates. 20
(c) The Secretary shall share the bimonthly estimates 21
developed pursuant to subsection (a) with the Secretary 22
of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the 23
Secretary of State, and the Committees on Appropriations 24
of the Senate and the House of Representatives. 25 82
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SEC. 539. Section 210G(i) of the Homeland Security 1
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124n(i)) shall be applied by sub-2
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘the date that is 4 3
years after the date of enactment of this section’’. 4
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EC. 540. Each amount designated in this Act by the 5
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-6
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-7
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available (or 8
rescinded, if applicable) only if the President subsequently 9
so designates all such amounts and transmits such des-10
ignations to the Congress. 11
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EC. 541. Section 401(b) of the Illegal Immigration 12
Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 13
U.S.C. 1324a note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Sep-14
tember 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2015’’. 15
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EC. 542. Subclauses (II) and (III) of section 16
101(a)(27)(C)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 17
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(C)(ii)) shall be applied by sub-18
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 19
2015’’. 20
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EC. 543. Notwithstanding the numerical limitation 21
set forth in section 214(g)(1)(B) of the Immigration and 22
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(1)(B)), the Secretary 23
of Homeland Security, after consultation with the Sec-24
retary of Labor, and upon determining that the needs of 25 83
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American businesses cannot be satisfied during fiscal year 1
2024 with United States workers who are willing, quali-2
fied, and able to perform temporary nonagricultural labor, 3
may increase the total number of aliens who may receive 4
a visa under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of such Act (8 5
U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b)) in such fiscal year above 6
such limitation by not more than the highest number of 7
H–2B nonimmigrants who participated in the H–2B re-8
turning worker program in any fiscal year in which return-9
ing workers were exempt from such numerical limitation. 10
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EC. 544. Section 220(c) of the Immigration and Na-11
tionality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 (8 U.S.C. 12
1182 note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘September 13
30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2015’’. 14
(RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 15
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EC. 545. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-16
ment of Homeland Security, the following funds are here-17
by rescinded from the following accounts and programs 18
in the specified amounts: Provided, That no amounts may 19
be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the 20
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a con-21
current resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 22
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 23
(1) $1,473,000 from the unobligated balances 24
available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-25 84
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tion—Procurement, Construction, and Improve-1
ments’’ account (70 X 0532). 2
(2) $1,842,000 from the unobligated balances 3
available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-4
tion—Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and 5
Technology’’ account (70 X 0533). 6
(3) $452,000 from the unobligated balances 7
available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-8
tion—Air and Marine Interdiction, Operations, 9
Maintenance, and Procurement’’ account (70 X 10
0544). 11
(4) $1,000,000 from the unobligated balances 12
available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-13
forcement—Operations and Support’’ account (70 14
23/24 0540). 15
(5) $2,092,841 from the unobligated balances 16
available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-17
forcement—Operations and Support’’ account (70 X 18
0540). 19
(6) $10,439 from the unobligated balances 20
available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-21
forcement—Automation Modernization’’ account (70 22
X 0543). 23
(7) $63,591,000 from the unobligated balances 24
available in the ‘‘Transportation Security Adminis-25 85
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tration—Operations and Support’’ account (70 X 1
0550). 2
(8) $22,600,000 from the unobligated balances 3
available in the ‘‘Coast Guard—Acquisition, Con-4
struction, and Improvements’’ account (70 X 0613). 5
(9) $2,400,000 from the unobligated balances 6
available in the ‘‘United States Secret Service—Op-7
erations and Support’’ account (70 X 0400). 8
(10) $4,000,000 from the unobligated balances 9
available in the ‘‘United States Secret Service—Pro-10
curement, Construction, and Improvements’’ account 11
(70 23/25 0401). 12
(11) $3,500,000 from the unobligated balances 13
available in the ‘‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 14
Security Agency—Procurement, Construction, and 15
Improvements’’ account (70 23/27 0412). 16
(12) $800,000 from the unobligated balances 17
available in the ‘‘Federal Law Enforcement Training 18
Centers—Procurement, Construction, and Improve-19
ments’’ account (70 20/24 0510). 20
(13) $900,000 from the unobligated balances 21
available in the ‘‘Science and Technology Direc-22
torate—Operations and Support’’ account (70 X 23
0800). 24 86
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(14) $388,522 from the unobligated balances 1
available in the ‘‘Countering Weapons of Mass De-2
struction Office—Research and Development’’ ac-3
count (70 22/24 0860). 4
(15) $11,478 from the unobligated balances 5
available in the ‘‘Countering Weapons of Mass De-6
struction Office—Research and Development’’ ac-7
count (70 X 0860). 8
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-9
land Security Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 10 Calendar No.
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CONGRESS
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S. 2625
[Report No. 118–85]
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
J
ULY
27, 2023
Read twice and placed on the calendar