H.R. 9310 — Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2027

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a report by October 15, 2027, to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General listing all grants and contracts awarded without full and open competition in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It further requires the Inspector General to review the report for compliance with applicable laws and regulations and report the results to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees by February 15, 2028.

This section requires the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Homeland Security to submit monthly budget and staffing reports to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within 30 days after the end of each month, detailing total obligations by month and fiscal year at the appropriation and program, project, and activity levels by source year. It establishes the initial report as the baseline for any staffing level increases or decreases.

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to notify the House and Senate Appropriations Committees of any proposed transfer of funds from the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund to a Department of Homeland Security agency. It prohibits obligating those funds until the committees receive the notification.

This section requires that all official costs for Department of Homeland Security personnel using government aircraft to support official travel by the Secretary and Deputy Secretary be paid from amounts made available for the Office of the Secretary.

This section requires the Under Secretary for Management to brief the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not later than 45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter, on all Level 1 and Level 2 acquisition programs on the Master Acquisition Oversight List from Acquisition Decision Event through Full Operational Capability, including those removed during the prior quarter. It also requires submission of each approved Acquisition Decision Memorandum to the same committees within five business days of approval.

This section prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from obligating any funds for a new pilot or demonstration unless the component documents measurable objectives, an assessment methodology detailing data sources and collection, and an implementation plan with milestones and cost estimates. It requires the Under Secretary for Management to report this information to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees before obligating Operations and Support funds, and to submit a follow-up report within 90 days after completion detailing lessons learned, actual costs, and any planned continuation. The requirements apply to any pilot or demonstration using more than 10 full-time equivalents or obligating $5 million or more.

This section prohibits the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis from using funds appropriated in this Act to conduct covered activities, as defined in section 6303 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025. It preserves the authority of DHS officials to conduct legal, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties oversight of intelligence activities and allows personnel to share and receive intelligence information with foreign, state, local, tribal, territorial, private sector, and other federal entities.

This section requires the Inspector General to submit quarterly reports to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on oversight of all funds provided to the Department under Public Law 119–21. The reports must review spend plans for every funded program, project, or activity and summarize audits of related contracting, procurement, and acquisition activities. Beginning one year after enactment, the Inspector General must also submit annual comprehensive reports on audits, inspections, and evaluations of those funds and activities, including recommendations to improve effectiveness and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.

This section provides $40 million for the procurement, deployment, and operations of body-worn cameras for Department of Homeland Security law enforcement personnel performing immigration enforcement activities under 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq. It requires the Secretary to submit a spend plan for the funds to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within 30 days of enactment.

This section extends the overtime compensation limitations for Department of Homeland Security employees to fiscal year 2027 (from fiscal year 2018).

This section makes funding under the U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations and Support and Procurement, Construction, and Improvements accounts available for customs expenses in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to maintain operations and prevent adverse personnel actions, in addition to amounts provided under sections 740 and 1406i of title 48, United States Code.

This section makes available until expended fees collected from passengers arriving from Canada, Mexico, or an adjacent island.

This section provides an additional $31,000,000 for U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations and Support, available until expended. The appropriation is offset by collections from fees authorized by section 286(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 10412 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, and section 817 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, with any amounts exceeding $31,000,000 also credited to the account.

This section prohibits the use of funds for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to prevent individuals from importing a personal-use quantity of prescription drugs from Canada, limited to a 90-day supply. The drugs may not be controlled substances or biological products.

This section prohibits the use of any federal funds to approve waivers of navigation and vessel-inspection laws for transporting crude oil to or from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consulting the Secretaries of Energy and Transportation and U.S. flag maritime industry representatives, ensures the use of United States flag vessels. It requires the Secretary to notify the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee within two business days of any such waiver request and its disposition.

This section prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security from establishing, collecting, or imposing any new border crossing fee on pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers or passengers of private motor vehicles crossing the Southern or Northern border at a land port of entry, and from conducting any study on the imposition of such a fee.

This section requires the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to submit an expenditure plan within 90 days of enactment for all amounts made available for the Procurement, Construction, and Improvements account in this Act and prior Acts, and prohibits obligation of any such amounts provided in this Act until the plan is submitted to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

This section authorizes the use of funds made available in this Act to alter operations at the National Targeting Center of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It prohibits the use of funds from this Act, prior appropriations Acts available in fiscal year 2027, or fee accounts to reduce anticipated or planned vetting operations at existing locations unless specifically authorized by a statute enacted after the date of enactment of this Act.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act and Public Law 119–21 for the construction of fencing in certain areas, in the same manner as the prohibition applied to funds in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2021.

This section prohibits the use of federal funds to procure or deploy non-autonomous surveillance tower systems along the United States border. It defines a surveillance tower system as any tower used for the identification and classification of items of interest along the border.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to admit aliens on F or M visas at ports of entry if the college, university, or other institution of higher learning they will attend lacks accreditation by a nationally recognized agency recognized by the Secretary of Education under part H of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

This section prohibits the use of any funds appropriated by this Act to parole nationals of the People’s Republic of China into the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for temporary visits for business or pleasure without a visa.

This section prohibits U.S. Customs and Border Protection from using funds appropriated in this Act to admit aerosol-dispensing unmanned aircraft systems produced or manufactured in foreign adversary countries into the United States.

This section requires the Secretary to maintain in effect and fully implement the November 30, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection policy on the treatment of pregnant, postpartum, nursing individuals, and infants in custody, or substantively similar standards developed in consultation with maternal and pediatric health providers and experts, to protect the health, safety, and rights of pregnant women in Customs and Border Protection custody.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to reduce participation in or diminish the delegation of immigration enforcement authority to state and local law enforcement under section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, except as provided in section 217.

This section prohibits the use of funds under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Support heading to continue any delegation of immigration enforcement authority under section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act if the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General determines that the governing agreement has been materially violated.

This section prohibits the use of funds under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Support heading to continue any contract for detention services if the two most recent overall performance evaluations of the facility are less than adequate. It requires those evaluations to be conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Professional Responsibility.

This section authorizes the Secretary to reprogram and transfer funds to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Support for the detention of aliens prioritized for removal, without regard to the time and condition limitations in section 503(d) of this Act.

This section continues the semimonthly reporting requirements under section 216 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2021, and applies all matters required to be included in those reports during the period described in that section.

This section requires the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to submit an initial written obligation plan for all agency funding to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within 30 days of enactment. The plan must be delineated by month, program, project, and activity; incorporate all funding sources including carryover, fees, and mandatory amounts; and include data-driven assumptions on contracts, personnel, and operations. The Director must also provide monthly briefings and updates with actual obligations, carryover balances, payroll and resource projections, contract details, mission-area spending on fentanyl and child exploitation, and rates of operations for Custody Operations, Alternatives to Detention, and Transportation and Removal Operations.

This section requires the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to submit, within 90 days of enactment, a written execution plan for detention facility funding provided by Public Law 119–21. The plan must detail current and projected bed locations, numbers, and per-bed costs; total beds through the end of the fiscal year; associated transportation and removal costs; and the desired geographic end-state for facilities. It also mandates quarterly briefings and written updates comparing actual to planned fund execution, with the initial plan retained unchanged for comparison.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act or any other Act to reduce the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attachés or liaisons at U.S. embassies or consulates abroad for international investigations or partnerships with foreign law enforcement. The prohibition does not apply if the Secretary of Homeland Security, in collaboration with the Secretary of State, submits a written explanation to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that maintaining the presence undermines U.S. foreign policy interests in that country, or if the host country requests cessation of the activities.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to transport aliens unlawfully present in, paroled into, or inadmissible to the United States into the interior of the United States, except for enforcement of immigration laws. It exempts transportation of unaccompanied alien children.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to pay for or facilitate an abortion, except when the life of the mother would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to term or in cases of rape or incest. It also bars the use of such funds to require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to administer hormone therapy medication or to perform or facilitate surgery for sex-rejecting care for any person in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

This section directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to allocate Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and support funds to maintain the average daily population of detainees at full capacity at all funded detention facilities throughout the fiscal year. It also requires every alien on the non-detained docket to be enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention Program with mandatory GPS monitoring for the duration of all immigration proceedings, including appeals, and until removal if ordered.

This section exempts persons held in federal immigration custody from any state or local minimum wage or other employment condition laws.

This section limits inspections of non-dedicated ICE detention facilities subject to the 2019 National Detention Standards by prohibiting the use of any appropriated funds except for compliance with those standards, and by barring inspections within six months of a prior inspection, except for those conducted by the Office of Inspector General.

This section subjects members of Congress including leadership, heads of federal agencies and commissions including Department of Homeland Security officials, Department of Justice officials including the Attorney General and U.S. Attorneys, and senior Executive Office of the President officials including the OMB Director to federal passenger and baggage screening. It prohibits the use of any federal funds, including from fee accounts, to carry out legislation altering those screening requirements.

This section permits the Aviation Security Capital Fund to be used in fiscal year 2027 for the procurement and installation of explosives detection systems or for other transaction agreements funding projects described in section 44923(a) of title 49, United States Code.

This section requires the Transportation Security Administration Administrator to submit a single consolidated report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the House Committee on Homeland Security and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation no later than 45 days after the President's budget submission. The report must include a constrained and unconstrained capital investment plan for new and replacement transportation security equipment, the 5-year technology investment plan, and the Advanced Integrated Passenger Screening Technologies report.

This section prohibits the Transportation Security Administration from charging or collecting any fee for vetting travelers who arrive without acceptable identification for admission through airport security screenings.

This section requires the Commandant of the Coast Guard to submit to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a future-years capital investment plan for Coast Guard acquisition, construction, and improvements, as described in and subject to the requirements of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015.

This section makes amounts deposited into the Coast Guard Housing Fund in fiscal year 2027 available until expended to carry out housing purposes under section 2946 of title 14, United States Code, in addition to funds otherwise available for those purposes.

This section authorizes the United States Secret Service to obligate funds in anticipation of reimbursements from executive agencies for personnel receiving training at the James J. Rowley Training Center, provided that total obligations at fiscal year end do not exceed available budgetary resources under the Operations and Support heading.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated to the United States Secret Service for protecting the head of any federal agency other than the Secretary of Homeland Security. It authorizes the Director to provide such protection under fully reimbursable agreements.

This section authorizes the Director of the Secret Service to reprogram up to $50,000,000 between the Protection of Persons and Facilities level II PPA and the Presidential Campaigns and National Special Security Events level II PPA. It requires the Director to report monthly to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on any reprogramming executed under this authority, beginning 30 days after enactment.

This section authorizes the use of United States Secret Service—Operations and Support funds for employee travel on protective missions without regard to expenditure limitations in this or any other Act, provided the Director notifies the House and Senate Appropriations Committees at least 10 days in advance or as early as practicable.

This section requires the Director of the United States Secret Service to submit to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, within 30 days after the President's budget proposal, a list of each unfunded priority necessary to meet an operational need or that would have been recommended for funding if additional resources had been available.

This section authorizes the use of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Operations and Support funds to procure or provide access to cybersecurity threat feeds for federal agencies and instrumentalities, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, fusion centers, and Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations.

This section limits to 5 percent the share of Federal Emergency Management Agency grants under paragraphs (1) through (5) of the Federal Assistance account that a recipient may use for administrative expenses. It extends the same 5 percent limit to state recipients administering grants under paragraph (3).

This section sets deadlines for grant applications under the Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assistance heading for paragraphs (1) through (5): applications must be made available to eligible applicants within 60 days after enactment, applicants must submit within 80 days after the grant announcement, and the Administrator must act within 65 days after receipt.

This section requires the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to brief the House and Senate Appropriations Committees five full business days before publicly announcing the intention to award grants under paragraphs (1) through (5), (9), and (10) of the Federal Assistance heading. It rescinds $1,000,000 from Federal Emergency Management Agency Operations and Support, with a corresponding reduction to Mission Support funding, if any announcement occurs without the required briefing.

This section provides that the installation of communications towers is not considered construction of a building or other physical facility for grants under the Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assistance heading, paragraphs (1) and (2).

This section applies the reporting requirements on the Disaster Relief Fund to fiscal year 2027 with respect to budget year 2028 and current fiscal year 2027. It updates the prior reference from fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2028 and requires reports on the fifth business day.

This section authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to grant waivers from specified requirements when awarding Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grants. The waived provisions cover local matching funds, maintenance of effort, and related conditions under section 34 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974.

This section requires the Department of Homeland Security to assess aggregate fees for its Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program in fiscal year 2027 equal to at least 100 percent of the amounts anticipated to be necessary for the program in the following fiscal year. It mandates that the fee methodology be fair and equitable and reflect all costs of providing services, including administrative costs, with collections deposited as offsetting collections available on October 1, 2027, and remaining available until expended.

This section authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to waive subsection (k) of section 33 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 when awarding Assistance to Firefighters Grants.

This section transfers unobligated balances appropriated in prior Acts for the National Predisaster Mitigation Fund under section 203 of the Stafford Act, as in effect before enactment of section 1234 of division D of Public Law 115–254, to and merges them with funds set aside under subsection (i)(1) of the current section 203.

This section transfers any unobligated balances from prior appropriations for the Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis Program to the Federal Assistance account for necessary flood hazard mapping and risk analysis expenses. The transferred funds supplement amounts from the National Flood Insurance Fund and cost-shared contributions from states and other political subdivisions, and remain available until expended.

This section requires each award for grants under the Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assistance heading for paragraphs (1) through (10), (12), and (13) to have a period of performance of not less than three years and not more than five years.

This section requires the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to post an interactive dashboard on the agency's public website displaying requests for reimbursement of covered expenses, delineated by state, for individual and public assistance related to emergency or major disaster declarations under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. The dashboard must be updated within 90 days after receipt of the information and within 60 days after it enters final review by the Department of Homeland Security, and must include specified minimum information.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act to pause training or grants under the Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assistance heading. It allows such pauses only after the Secretary of Homeland Security provides the House and Senate Appropriations Committees at least 10 business days' advance notice that includes an explanation, plans to make up missed classes, and the budgetary impact, or in extraordinary circumstances that imminently threaten human life or property.

This section requires the President to establish a predisaster hazard mitigation program and to provide technical and financial assistance from the National Public Infrastructure Predisaster Mitigation Fund to eligible states and local governments. It limits assistance to measures related to a major disaster declaration in the previous 5 years. It reduces the period used in program criteria to 5 years (from 7 years), removes one criterion, and requires the Fund to receive not less than 3 percent and not more than a specified share of certain appropriations.

This section authorizes U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to use available funds to acquire, operate, equip, and dispose of up to 5 replacement vehicles in areas where the General Services Administration does not provide lease vehicles, and permits the Director to authorize assigned employees to use those vehicles for travel between their residences and places of employment.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to process or approve competitions under Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 for services provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees, including Immigration Information Officers, Immigration Service Analysts, Contact Representatives, Investigative Assistants, and Immigration Services Officers.

This section authorizes U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to use any federal funds made available to the agency for the collection and use of biometrics at Application Support Centers overseen virtually by agency personnel using appropriate technology.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to issue employment authorization documents or similar documents to any alien whose asylum application has been denied or who is convicted of a federal or state crime while the application remains pending.

This section authorizes the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to use up to $2,500 from the Immigration Examinations Fee Account for official reception and representation expenses in fiscal year 2027.

This section prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from using federal funds to consider petitions for H-1B nonimmigrant visas if the petitioner is an entity identified under section 1260H of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 or any subsidiary of such entity.

This section prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine that an alien has a credible fear of persecution under section 235(b)(1)(B)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality Act unless the determination applies a more-likely-than-not standard, after assessing credibility under section 208(b)(1)(B)(iii) and other known facts, both for asylum eligibility under section 208 and for the truth of the alien’s statements.

This section prohibits the use of funds to determine credible fear of persecution or grant asylum to any alien who transited through at least one third country en route to the United States, unless the alien applied for and received a final denial of protection in each transit country, was a victim of severe trafficking that prevented such applications, or transited only through countries not party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, 1967 Protocol, or Convention Against Torture.

This section caps at the highest number received in any single year from FY2022 through FY2026 the H-2B positions exempt from the annual numerical limit that an employer may obtain in FY2027, for any employer that received labor certifications in those five years.

This section deems work performed on agricultural operations (as defined in 7 U.S.C. 8791) to qualify as temporary or seasonal agricultural labor or services for H-2A visa purposes in FY2027, making such workers eligible for admission under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act for a period of up to one year.

This section establishes a new P nonimmigrant visa category for aliens who enter temporarily and solely to perform functions integral to the operation of a mobile entertainment provider, such as a traveling carnival or circus. It applies the same Department of Labor program requirements that govern H-2B admissions, defines covered functions and providers, and directs the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Labor to publish proposed implementing rules within 180 days and finalize them within one year.

This section directs the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Board, including Federal law enforcement representatives and non-Federal accreditation experts, to lead the process of measuring and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors.

This section authorizes the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers to accept transfers from other federal agencies to its Procurement, Construction, and Improvements account for the construction of special use facilities under the Economy Act. It requires the Centers to retain administrative control and ownership of completed facilities.

This section classifies the functions of Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers instructor staff as inherently governmental under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998.

This section authorizes the transfer of unexpended balances from prior appropriations for activities under this Act to new appropriation accounts established by the Act, subject to section 503 requirements. The transferred funds may be merged with existing amounts in those accounts and accounted for as a single fund for the original period of availability.

This section prohibits reprogramming of Department of Homeland Security funds that creates or eliminates a program, augments an existing program by more than $5 million or 10 percent, reduces funding or personnel by 10 percent or more, or contracts out federal functions, unless the House and Senate Appropriations Committees receive 30 days' advance notice. It limits transfers between appropriations to 5 percent (with no appropriation increased by more than 10 percent) under the same notice requirement, bars most reprogramming after June 15, and authorizes transfers of up to $20 million to the immigration examinations fee account with 5 days' notice.

This section applies the working capital fund authority from the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017, to funds made available in this Act for fiscal years 2027 and 2028, with updated references to the President’s budget. It permits obligations and expenditures from the fund in anticipation of reimbursements from Department components.

This section extends the availability of up to 50 percent of unobligated balances from fiscal year 2027 Operations and Support appropriations through September 30, 2028, for the same purposes. It requires prior notification to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees before any obligation of such funds.

This section deems funds made available by this Act for intelligence activities as specifically authorized by Congress for fiscal year 2027 until enactment of an intelligence authorization act. It transfers amounts exceeding authorized levels in the Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Awareness—Operations and Support account to the Management Directorate—Operations and Support account and requires the Undersecretary for Management to brief the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on a plan for their use before obligation.

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify the House and Senate Appropriations Committees at least three full business days before awarding grants over $1 million (or over $100,000 from the Disaster Relief Fund), contracts or task orders over $2 million, sole-source grants, or public announcements of such awards. It permits an exception without prior notice when an award poses a substantial risk to human life, health, or safety, provided notification occurs within three business days after the award.

This section prohibits any agency from purchasing, constructing, or leasing additional facilities for Federal law enforcement training without advance notification to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. It authorizes the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers to obtain temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement when existing facilities cannot accommodate the training.

This section prohibits the use of funds for any construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition project lacking an approved prospectus required under chapter 33 of title 40, United States Code, except for necessary expenses to develop a proposed prospectus.

This section applies sections 522 and 530 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 to funds made available under this Act, in the same manner as those sections applied to funds in the 2008 Act.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act in contravention of the Buy American Act, defined as chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to carry out section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 452) unless explicitly authorized by Congress. It permits the Secretary to transfer funds as authorized by section 513(c) of Public Law 119–86.

This section prohibits any official required by the Act to report or certify to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees from delegating that authority unless the Act specifically authorizes the delegation.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for first-class travel by employees of funded agencies in violation of the federal travel regulations at 41 CFR 301-10.122 through 301-10.124.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to pay award or incentive fees for contractor performance judged below satisfactory or that fails to meet basic contract requirements.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to maintain or establish a computer network unless the network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography. It exempts funds used by Federal, State, tribal, territorial, or local law enforcement agencies or other entities for criminal investigations, prosecutions, or adjudications.

This section limits the use of funds made available in this Act by Federal law enforcement officers to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual known or suspected to be a drug cartel agent, unless United States law enforcement personnel continuously monitor or control the firearm at all times.

This section limits the use of funds to pay for travel or attendance by more than 50 employees of a single Department of Homeland Security component stationed in the United States at any single international conference, unless the Secretary determines attendance serves the national interest and notifies the House and Senate Appropriations Committees at least 10 days in advance. It caps total Department costs for any such conference at $500,000 and excludes virtual attendees from the employee limit.

This section prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from obligating funds to implement any structural pay reform or new position classification affecting more than 100 full-time positions or costing more than $5 million in a single year, unless the Secretary provides Congress with 30 days' advance notice that includes the number of positions affected, required funding through the Future Years Homeland Security Program, justification, and an analysis of compensation alternatives. The restriction does not apply to changes proposed in the President's budget request if funds for them have not been denied or restricted.

This section requires any agency receiving funds under this Act to post on its public website reports required by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, after the reports have been available to those committees for at least 45 days, unless posting would compromise national or homeland security or disclose proprietary information. It suspends the reprogramming and transfer authority provided in section 503 until the agency complies.

This section authorizes the use of Operations and Support funding for minor procurement, construction, and improvements. It defines minor as end items with a unit cost of $250,000 or less for personal property and $4,000,000 or less for real property.

This section extends through fiscal year 2027 the authority regarding primary and secondary schooling of dependents provided by section 532 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2018.

This section prohibits the use of funds to restrain pregnant women or women in post-delivery recuperation in Department of Homeland Security custody, except when an official determines the woman is a serious flight risk or poses an immediate threat that cannot be prevented otherwise, or when a medical professional deems therapeutic restraints appropriate. It requires the safest and least restrictive restraints if used, and bans restraints during active labor or in certain positions.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to destroy records pertaining to the death of, potential sexual assault or abuse against, or allegations of abuse, criminal activity, or disruption by individuals in Department of Homeland Security custody. It requires disclosure of such records to individuals charged with a crime, placed in segregation, or otherwise punished based on those allegations, upon request and subject to applicable laws.

This section extends the prohibition on funding for any position designated as a Principal Federal Official to all Federal funds (from only funds made available in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016).

This section requires the Under Secretary for Management of the Department of Homeland Security to submit, within 10 days after the President transmits the annual budget request, a report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on unfunded priorities for the Department and each component that fall under budget function 050. The report must include, for each priority, a description and objectives, the relevant appropriation account and program or activity, and the number of additional full- or part-time positions that would be funded.

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify congressional leadership and specified committees within 10 days after the President initiates protection for a covered individual (a former or retired government official), including the threat assessment, scope, anticipated cost, and duration. It also requires advance notification 15 days before extending or 30 days before terminating such protection, and quarterly reports detailing each covered individual and associated costs.

This section prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from using any funds to submit an initial project proposal to the Technology Modernization Fund unless it concurrently notifies the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, submits a copy of the proposal, and provides an analysis of how the project would supplement or supplant amounts in the Department's most recent budget request. It further bars obligation of Technology Modernization Fund amounts for the Department until 15 days after submission of a report that includes the approved proposal, interagency agreement, funding analysis, repayment plan, and other information determined by the Secretary.

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, within 60 days of any FY2028 budget submission that assumes revenues or spending reductions from unenacted user fee proposals, to provide the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with specific reductions in proposed discretionary budget authority commensurate with those assumed revenues if the proposals are not enacted by October 1, 2027.

This section prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from using any federal funds for procurement contracts, memoranda of understanding, cooperative agreements, grants, loans, or loan guarantees with entities identified under section 1260H of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 or any of their subsidiaries.

This section prohibits the use of any appropriated funds to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to the United States, its territories, or possessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other noncitizen detainee held at Guantanamo Bay on or after June 24, 2009.

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop monthly estimates, beginning immediately after enactment, of migrants anticipated to arrive at the southwest border. The estimates must cover the current and following fiscal years, include breakouts for single adults, family units, and unaccompanied children, undergo independent validation, inform Department policy and budget decisions, and be shared with the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and State, the Attorney General, and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees; failure to provide them suspends the Department’s reprogramming and transfer authority under section 503.

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop monthly estimates, beginning immediately after enactment, of individuals anticipated to be detained in and removed from the United States. The estimates must cover the current and following fiscal years, include breakouts for single adults and family units, undergo independent validation and verification, inform Department policy planning and budgeting, and be included in all budget materials submitted to Congress, including the President’s annual request and any supplemental or reprogramming requests. The Secretary must share the estimates with the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. Failure to provide the estimates suspends the reprogramming and transfer authority under section 503 of this Act.

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct an alternatives analysis and cost-benefit analysis, including examination of non-Defense Department options, before requesting Department of Defense support for border security operations. It also directs the Secretary to submit reports to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within 30 days of any such request and quarterly after assistance begins, detailing the support requested or provided and its operational impacts on Department of Homeland Security activities.

This section transfers not less than $5,000,000 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Support to fund operations of the Blue Campaign in fiscal year 2027. It requires prior notification to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees before obligating the funds.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to classify communications by United States persons as mis-, dis-, or mal-information or to partner with or fund organizations that pressure private companies to censor their constitutionally protected speech. It requires removal from federal service of any officer or employee funded by the Act who engages in such activities.

This section prohibits the use of funds provided by this Act or prior appropriations Acts to take any discriminatory action against a person based on a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. It defines discriminatory actions to include changes in federal tax treatment, denial of grants, contracts, loans, certifications, or benefits, and withholding of access to federal property or facilities, and requires the Federal Government to recognize the accreditation, licensure, or certification of any such person.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to obligate or award funds to any political subdivision of a State that maintains a law, policy, or procedure limiting compliance with 8 U.S.C. 1373 or hindering federal enforcement of immigration laws as defined in 8 U.S.C. 101(a)(17).

This section prohibits the use of any funds appropriated by this Act for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, training, programs, offices, officers, policies, or any program, project, or activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory or associated concepts.

This section reduces amounts available for Office of the Secretary and Executive Management—Operations and Support—Management and Oversight by $100,000 for each day a required Disaster Relief Fund report is not submitted to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and published on the agency website by the fifth business day of the month. It also reduces such amounts by $100,000 for each day the number of individual or public assistance reimbursement requests under final review for more than 60 days exceeds 500, except when the Disaster Relief Fund balance is sufficient only for lifesaving or life-sustaining activities.

This section extends the application of subsection (a) of section 16005 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act until September 30, 2028.

This section requires appropriations accounts for classified programs to conform to the direction in the classified annex accompanying this Act and to be implemented consistent with section 545.

This section authorizes the Director of National Intelligence, with the approval of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to transfer National Intelligence Program funds for higher-priority unforeseen intelligence requirements, subject to the percentage caps in section 503(c) and the requirements of section 503(d)(1), but not for items denied by Congress.

This section requires the Department to submit to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, within seven days of enactment and quarterly thereafter, obligation plans by program, project, or activity for components receiving funds from Public Law 119–21; estimates of new or enhanced fee collections, delineated by amounts retained by the collecting component and amounts remitted elsewhere; and obligation plans for retained fee collections.

This section prohibits the use of federal funds to prevent Members of Congress or their designated employees from entering Department of Homeland Security facilities used to detain aliens for oversight purposes. It bars any temporary modifications that would alter what visitors observe. Members of Congress may enter without prior notice, while designated employees may be required to submit a request at least 24 hours in advance. The Inspector General must report material noncompliance to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within 30 days.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to procure computers, printers, or videoconferencing services from any manufacturer, bidder, or offeror—or their subsidiaries or parent entities—in which the People’s Republic of China holds any ownership stake.

This section extends to September 30, 2027 (from September 30, 2024) the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security under section 831 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to carry out prototype projects using the procedures of section 2371b of title 10, United States Code, and to apply the definition of nontraditional government contractor from that section.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to interfere with or restrict individuals from recording or documenting immigration enforcement actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other federal law enforcement agencies in public areas, provided the documentation does not obstruct operations.

This section authorizes the Secretary to accept title to non-federal real property or interests in exchange for federal property under the Secretary’s jurisdiction to support Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers operations in Artesia, New Mexico, when both properties are located in the same state.

This section requires the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that basic training for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement law enforcement personnel meets or exceeds the requirements and qualifications in effect on January 1, 2025. It also mandates initial and recurring use-of-force training for the Department’s civilian law enforcement personnel that covers de-escalation tactics and both lethal and less-than-lethal weapons, and directs the Department to notify the House and Senate Appropriations Committees of any changes to these training requirements within 60 days.

This section requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to procure and deploy visible numerical and agency identifiers for civilian Department of Homeland Security law enforcement personnel conducting immigration enforcement activities within 90 days of enactment. It mandates clear display of the identifiers and verbal disclosure of agency and badge number during public engagements that may involve custodial arrest, with an exception for undercover operations, and directs a deployment status report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within 120 days. It also extends criminal penalties under 18 U.S.C. 119 for public disclosure of restricted personal information about immigration officers or their immediate family by deeming such officers covered persons.

This section prohibits federal funds from being made available to Department of Homeland Security civilian law enforcement personnel for immigration enforcement activities to knowingly detain a U.S. citizen, except when the citizen is subject to arrest under state or federal law, or to deport a U.S. citizen.

This section transfers $99,750,000 from unobligated balances in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Response and Recovery Fund (established by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) to its Operations and Support account. The transferred amounts continue to be treated as specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118–5.

This section rescinds $16,091,849 in unobligated balances from Department of Homeland Security accounts as follows: (1) $6,712,864 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations and Support (70 X 0530); (2) $50,547 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations and Support (70 X 0503); (3) $387,404 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations and Support (70 X 0531); (4) $836,164 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, and Improvements (70 X 0532); (5) $6,519,703 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology (70 X 0533); (6) $1,412,681 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Air and Marine Interdiction, Operations, Maintenance, and Procurement (70 X 0544); and (7) $172,486 from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—Infrastructure Protection and Infrastructure Security (70 X 0565). No emergency-designated funds may be rescinded.

This section makes federal funding appropriated in section 90006 of Public Law 119–21 available for reimbursement of emergency personnel costs for the protection activities described in that section.

This section prohibits the use of any appropriated funds to establish or support a Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security, or any similar entity that conducts disinformation-related activities to a comparable extent.

This section prohibits Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using any funds made available by this section to remove an alien to a third country unless an immigration judge has issued a removal order specifically to that country.