DHS Appropriations Act FY2026

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(Original Signature of Member) H. R. ll

119 CONGRESS TH 2 S ESSION

Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

DMr. C introduced the following bill; which was referred to the ISCOMANI Committee on llllllllllllll

A BILL

Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Se- curity for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, 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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3

This Act may be cited as the ''Pay Our Homeland 4 Defenders Act''. 5

SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 6

Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Sec. 3. References. Sec. 4. Explanatory statement.

Sec. 5. Statement of appropriations. DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS DIVISION B--FURTHER ADDITIONAL CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026

1SEC. 3. REFERENCES.

Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference 2 to ''this Act'' contained in division A of this Act shall be 3 treated as referring only to the provisions of that division. 4

SEC. 4. EXPLANATORY STATEMENT. 5

The explanatory statement regarding H.R. 7147 of 6 the 119th Congress, printed in the House of Representa-7 tives section of the Congressional Record on January 22, 8 2026, and submitted by the chair of the Committee on 9 Appropriations of the House of Representatives, shall have 10 the same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and 11 implementation of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory 12 statement of a committee of conference. 13

SEC. 5. STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS. 14

The following sums in this Act are appropriated, out 15 of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 16 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. 17

DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF 1 HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS 2

TITLE I 3 DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT, INTEL-4 LIGENCE, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, AND 5 OVERSIGHT 6 OS E 7FFICE OF THEECRETARY AND XECUTIVE M 8ANAGEMENT 9 For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary 10 and for executive management for operations and support, 11 $316,295,000, which shall be for the purposes and in the 12 amounts specified in the ''Final Bill'' column for Office 13 of the Secretary and Executive Management, Operations 14 and Support, in the ''Department of Homeland Security 15 Appropriations Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory state-16 ment described in section 4 (in the matter preceding divi-17 sion A of this consolidated Act), of which $14,050,000 of 18 amounts made available for Management and Oversight, 19 Office of Health Security and $8,000,000 of amounts 20 made available for Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans 21 shall remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, 22 That $5,000,000 shall be withheld from obligation until 23 the Secretary submits to the Committees on Appropria-24 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate re-25

sponses to all questions for the record for each hearing 1 on the fiscal year 2027 budget submission for the Depart-2 ment of Homeland Security held by such Committees prior 3 to July 1: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 4 shall be for official reception and representation expenses. 5 , , 6 For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary 7 and for executive management for procurement, construc-8 tion, and improvements, $8,911,000, to remain available 9 until September 30, 2028. 10 M D 11 ANAGEMENT IRECTORATE 12 For necessary expenses of the Management Direc-13 torate for operations and support, including vehicle fleet 14 modernization, $1,690,380,000, which shall be for the 15 purposes and in the amounts specified in the ''Final Bill'' 16 column for Management Directorate, Operations and Sup-17 port, in the ''Department of Homeland Security Appro-18 priations Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory statement 19 described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 20 A of this consolidated Act): Provided, That not to exceed 21 $2,000 shall be for official reception and representation 22 expenses. 23

, , For necessary expenses of the Management Direc-2 torate for procurement, construction, and improvements, 3 $58,106,000, to remain available until September 30, 4

1. 5 6IFEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE The revenues and collections of security fees credited 7 to this account shall be available until expended for nec-8 essary expenses related to the protection of federally 9 owned and leased buildings and for the operations of the 10 Federal Protective Service. 11 , A, S 12NTELLIGENCENALYSISANDITUATIONAL A 13WARENESS 14 For necessary expenses of the Office of Intelligence 15 and Analysis and the Office of Homeland Security Situa-16 tional Awareness for operations and support, 17 $340,819,000, of which $121,274,000 shall remain avail-18 able until September 30, 2027: Provided, That not to ex-19 ceed $3,825 shall for be official reception and representa-20 tion expenses and not to exceed $2,000,000 is available 21 for facility needs associated with secure space at fusion 22 centers, including improvements to buildings. 23

I GSFFICE OFONSPECTOR AENERAL 2 For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 3 General for operations and support, $257,599,000, of 4 which $20,000,000 shall be for additional inspections and 5 oversight of detention facilities and shall remain available 6 until September 30, 2027, and of which $12,814,000 shall 7 be for oversight of the execution of funds provided in Pub-8 lic Law 119-21: Provided, That not to exceed $300,000 9 may be used for certain confidential operational expenses, 10 including the payment of informants, to be expended at 11 the direction of the Inspector General. 12 P 13 ROVISIONS . 101. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 14EC shall submit a report not later than October 15, 2026, 15 to the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 16 Security listing all grants and contracts awarded by any 17 means other than full and open competition during fiscal 18 years 2025 or 2026. 19 (b) The Inspector General shall review the report re-20 quired by subsection (a) to assess departmental compli-21 ance with applicable laws and regulations and report the 22 results of that review to the Committees on Appropriations 23 of the House of Representatives and the Senate not later 24 than February 15, 2027. 25

. 102. (a) Not later than 30 days after the last 1SEC day of each month, the Chief Financial Officer of the De-2 partment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Com-3 mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 4 and the Senate a monthly budget and staffing report that 5 includes total obligations of the Department for that 6 month and for the fiscal year at the appropriation and 7 program, project, and activity levels, by the source year 8 of the appropriation. 9 (b) The initial staffing report submitted pursuant to 10 subsection (a) shall be the baseline for which the Depart-11 ment of Homeland Security may increase or decrease 12 staffing levels for any program, project, or activity pursu-13 ant to section 503(a)(4) of this Act. 14 S. 103. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 15EC in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall 16 notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 17 Representatives and the Senate of any proposed transfers 18 of funds available under section 9705(g)(4)(B) of title 31, 19 United States Code, from the Department of the Treasury 20 Forfeiture Fund to any agency within the Department of 21 Homeland Security. 22 (b) None of the funds identified for such a transfer 23 may be obligated until the Committees on Appropriations 24

of the House of Representatives and the Senate are noti-1 fied of the proposed transfer. 2 . 104. All official costs associated with the use 3 SEC of Government aircraft by Department of Homeland Secu-4 rity personnel to support official travel of the Secretary 5 and the Deputy Secretary shall be paid from amounts 6 made available for the Office of the Secretary. 7 S . 105. (a) The Under Secretary for Management 8 EC shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the House 9 of Representatives and the Senate not later than 45 days 10 after the end of each fiscal quarter on all Level 1 and 11 Level 2 acquisition programs on the Master Acquisition 12 Oversight List between Acquisition Decision Event and 13 Full Operational Capability, including programs that have 14 been removed from such list during the preceding quarter. 15 (b) For each such program, the briefing described in 16 subsection (a) shall include-- 17 (1) a description of the purpose of the program, 18 including the capabilities being acquired and the 19 component(s) sponsoring the acquisition; 20 (2) the total number of units, as appropriate, to 21 be acquired annually until procurement is complete 22 under the current acquisition program baseline; 23 (3) the Acquisition Review Board status, in-24 cluding-- 25

(A) the current acquisition phase by incre-1 ment, as applicable; 2 (B) the date of the most recent review; and 3 (C) whether the program has been paused 4 or is in breach status; 5 (4) a comparison between the initial Depart-6 ment-approved acquisition program baseline cost, 7 schedule, and performance thresholds and objectives 8 and the program's current such thresholds and ob-9 jectives, if applicable; 10 (5) the lifecycle cost estimate, adjusted for com-11 parison to the Future Years Homeland Security 12 Program, including-- 13 (A) the confidence level for the estimate; 14 (B) the fiscal years included in the esti-15 mate; 16 (C) a breakout of the estimate for the 17 prior five years, the current year, and the budg-18 et year; 19 (D) a breakout of the estimate by appro-20 priation account or other funding source; and 21 (E) a description of and rationale for any 22 changes to the estimate as compared to the pre-23 viously approved baseline, as applicable, and 24 during the prior fiscal year; 25

(6) a summary of the findings of any inde-1 pendent verification and validation of the items to be 2 acquired or an explanation for why no such 3 verification and validation has been performed; 4 (7) a table displaying the obligation of all pro-5 gram funds by prior fiscal year, the estimated obli-6 gation of funds for the current fiscal year, and an 7 estimate for the planned carryover of funds into the 8 subsequent fiscal year; 9 (8) a listing of prime contractors and major 10 subcontractors; and 11 (9) narrative descriptions of risks to cost, 12 schedule, or performance that could result in a pro-13 gram breach if not successfully mitigated. 14 (c) The Under Secretary for Management shall sub-15 mit each approved Acquisition Decision Memorandum for 16 programs described in this section to the Committees on 17 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 18 Senate not later than five business days after the date of 19 approval of such memorandum by the Under Secretary for 20 Management or the designee of the Under Secretary for 21 Management. 22 S. 106. (a) None of the funds made available to 23EC the Department of Homeland Security in this Act or prior 24 appropriations Acts may be obligated for any new pilot 25

or demonstration unless the component or office carrying 1 out such pilot or demonstration has documented the infor-2 mation described in subsection (c). 3 (b) Prior to the obligation of any such funds made 4 available for ''Operations and Support'' for a new pilot 5 or demonstration, the Under Secretary for Management 6 shall provide a report to the Committees on Appropria-7 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate on 8 the information described in subsection (c). 9 (c) The information required under subsections (a) 10 and (b) for a pilot or demonstration shall include the fol-11 lowing-- 12 (1) documented objectives that are well-defined 13 and measurable; 14 (2) an assessment methodology that details-- 15 (A) the type and source of assessment 16 data; 17 (B) the methods for, and frequency of, col-18 lecting such data; and 19 (C) how such data will be analyzed; and 20 (3) an implementation plan, including mile-21 stones, cost estimates, and implementation sched-22 ules, including a projected end date. 23 (d) Not later than 90 days after the date of comple-24 tion of a pilot or demonstration described in subsection 25

(e), the Under Secretary for Management shall provide a 1 report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 2 of Representatives and the Senate detailing lessons 3 learned, actual costs, any planned expansion or continu-4 ation of the pilot or demonstration, and any planned tran-5 sition of such pilot or demonstration into an enduring pro-6 gram or operation. 7 (e) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or dem-8 onstration program is a study, demonstration, experi-9 mental program, or trial that-- 10 (1) is a small-scale, short-term experiment con-11 ducted in order to evaluate feasibility, duration, 12 costs, or adverse events, and improve upon the de-13 sign of an effort prior to implementation of a larger 14 scale effort; and 15 (2) uses more than 10 full-time equivalents or 16 obligates, or proposes to obligate, $5,000,000 or 17 more, but does not include congressionally directed 18 programs or enhancements and does not include pro-19 grams that were in operation as of the date of the 20 enactment of this Act. 21 (f) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or dem-22 onstration does not include any testing, evaluation, or ini-23 tial deployment phase executed under a procurement con-24 tract for the acquisition of information technology services 25

or systems, or any pilot or demonstration carried out by 1 a non-Federal recipient under any financial assistance 2 agreement funded by the Department. 3 S . 107. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-4 EC erwise made available by this Act may be used by the Of-5 fice of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of 6 Homeland Security to conduct a covered activity (as de-7 fined by section 6303 of the Intelligence Authorization Act 8 for Fiscal Year 2025 (division F of Public Law 118-159)). 9 (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as lim-10 iting or superseding the authority of any official within 11 the Department of Homeland Security to conduct legal, 12 privacy, civil rights, or civil liberties oversight of the intel-13 ligence activities of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. 14 (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to pro-15 hibit, or to limit the authority of, personnel of the Office 16 of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Home-17 land Security from sharing intelligence information with, 18 or receiving information from-- 19 (1) foreign, State, local, tribal, or territorial 20 governments (or any agency or subdivision thereof); 21 (2) the private sector; or 22 (3) other elements of the Federal Government, 23 including the components of the Department of 24 Homeland Security. 25

S . 108. (a) The Inspector General shall report to 1EC the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-2 resentatives and the Senate on a quarterly basis on over-3 sight of the funding provided to the Department in Public 4 Law 119-21. 5 (b) The quarterly report required in subsection (a) 6 shall include-- 7 (1) a review of the spend plans for every pro-8 gram, project, or activity funded by the Department 9 under Public Law 119-21, including the current sta-10 tus of obligated funds compared to spend plan pro-11 jections; and 12 (2) a summary of the audits being conducted on 13 the Department's contracting, procurement, and ac-14 quisition activities resulting from Public Law 119- 15

1. 16 (c) Beginning one year after the date of enactment 17 of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Inspector General 18 shall submit a comprehensive report to the Committees on 19 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 20 Senate on the audits, inspections, and evaluations con-21 ducted on funds provided and activities undertaken in 22 Public Law 119-21 and shall also provide recommenda-23 tions in such report on ways to improve effectiveness and 24

efficiency and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of such pro-1 grams and funds. 2 . 109. (a) For an additional amount for ''Office 3 EC of the Secretary and Executive Management--Operations 4 and Support--Office of the Secretary'', $20,000,000, for 5 the procurement, deployment, and operations of body- 6 worn cameras for agents and officers performing enforce-7 ment activities under 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq. 8 (b) Within 30 days of the date of enactment of this 9 Act, the Secretary shall provide the Committees on Appro-10 priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 11 a spend plan for the execution of funding provided in sub-12 section (a). 13 TITLE II 14 SECURITY, ENFORCEMENT, AND 15 INVESTIGATIONS 16 U.S. C 17 SUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION 18 19 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border 20 Protection for operations and support, including the trans-21 portation of unaccompanied alien minors; the provision of 22 air and marine support to Federal, State, local, and inter-23 national agencies in the enforcement or administration of 24 laws enforced by the Department of Homeland Security; 25

at the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, 1 the provision of such support to Federal, State, and local 2 agencies in other law enforcement and emergency humani-3 tarian efforts; the purchase and lease of up to 7,500 4 (6,500 for replacement only) police-type vehicles; the pur-5 chase, maintenance, or operation of marine vessels, air-6 craft, and unmanned aerial systems; and contracting with 7 individuals for personal services abroad; $17,727,974,000; 8 of which $3,274,000 shall be derived from the Harbor 9 Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses re-10 lated to the collection of the Harbor Maintenance Fee pur-11 suant to section 9505(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code 12 of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9505(c)(3)) and notwithstanding sec-13 tion 1511(e)(1) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 14 U.S.C. 551(e)(1)); of which $550,000,000 shall be avail-15 able until September 30, 2027; and of which such sums 16 as become available in the Customs User Fee Account, ex-17 cept sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consoli-18 dated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that account: Pro-20

vided, That not to exceed $34,425 shall be for official re-21

ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 22 That not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for pay-23 ment for rental space in connection with preclearance op-24 erations: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 25

shall be for awards of compensation to informants, to be 1 accounted for solely under the certificate of the Secretary 2 of Homeland Security: Provided further, That not to ex-3 ceed $2,500,000 may be transferred to the Bureau of In-4 dian Affairs for the maintenance and repair of roads on 5 Native American reservations used by the U.S. Border Pa-6 trol. 7 , , 8 For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border 9 Protection for procurement, construction, and improve-10 ments, including procurement of marine vessels, aircraft, 11 and unmanned aerial systems, $222,886,000, which shall 12 be for the purposes and in the amounts specified in the 13 ''Final Bill'' column for U.S. Customs and Border Protec-14 tion, Procurement, Construction, and Improvements, in 15 the ''Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 16 Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory statement described 17 in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 18 consolidated Act), of which-- 19 (1) amounts made available for Border Security 20 Assets and Infrastructure, Trade and Travel Assets 21 and Infrastructure, Integrated Operations Assets 22 and Infrastructure, Mission Support Assets and In-23 frastructure, and Radiological Detection Systems 24 shall remain available until September 30, 2028; and 25

(2) amounts made available for Construction 1 and Facility Improvements shall remain available 2 until September 30, 2030. 3 U.S. I C E 4MMIGRATION AND USTOMS NFORCEMENT 5 For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and 6 Customs Enforcement for operations and support, includ-7 ing the purchase and lease of up to 3,790 (2,350 for re-8 placement only) police-type vehicles; overseas vetted units; 9 and maintenance, minor construction, and minor leasehold 10 improvements at owned and leased facilities; 11 $10,036,362,000, which shall be for the purposes and in 12 the amounts specified in the ''Final Bill'' column for U.S. 13 Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Operations and 14 Support, in the ''Department of Homeland Security Ap-15 propriations Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory state-16 ment described in section 4 (in the matter preceding divi-17 sion A of this consolidated Act), of which-- 18 (1) of the amounts made available for Home-19 land Security Investigations-- 20 (A) not less than $6,000,000 shall remain 21 available until expended for efforts to enforce 22 laws against forced child labor; 23 (B) $46,696,000 shall remain available 24 until September 30, 2027; 25

(C) not less than $3,000,000 is for paid 1 apprenticeships for participants in the Human 2 Exploitation Rescue Operative Child-Rescue 3 Corps; 4 (D) not less than $15,000,000 shall be 5 available for investigation of intellectual prop-6 erty rights violations, including operation of the 7 National Intellectual Property Rights Coordina-8 tion Center; 9 (E) $15,000,000 shall be available until 10 expended for conducting special operations 11 under section 3131 of the Customs Enforce-12 ment Act of 1986 (19 U.S.C. 2801); and 13 (F) not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be for 14 awards of compensation to informants, to be ac-15 counted for solely under the certificate of the 16 Secretary of Homeland Security; 17 (2) of the amounts made available for Enforce-18 ment and Removal Operations, not to exceed 19 $11,216,000 shall be available to fund or reimburse 20 other Federal agencies for the costs associated with 21 the care, maintenance, and repatriation of smuggled 22 aliens unlawfully present in the United States; and 23

(3) of the amounts made available under this 1 heading, $11,475 shall be for official reception and 2 representation expenses. 3 , , 4 For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and 5 Customs Enforcement for procurement, construction, and 6 improvements, $5,000,000, to remain available until Sep-7 tember 30, 2028. 8 T S A 9RANSPORTATION ECURITY DMINISTRATION 10 For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-11 rity Administration for operations and support, 12 $10,635,434,000, of which $300,000,000 shall remain 13 available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That not 14 to exceed $7,650 shall be for official reception and rep-15 resentation expenses: Provided further, That security serv-16 ice fees authorized under section 44940 of title 49, United 17 States Code, shall be credited to this appropriation as off-18 setting collections and shall be available only for aviation 19 security: Provided further, That the sum appropriated 20 under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced 21 on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting collections 22 are received during fiscal year 2026 so as to result in a 23 final fiscal year appropriation from the general fund esti-24 mated at not more than $7,605,434,000. 25

, , For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-2 rity Administration for procurement, construction, and 3 improvements, $330,230,000, to remain available until 4 September 30, 2028. 5 6 For necessary expenses of the Transportation Secu-7 rity Administration for research and development, 8 $24,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 9

1. 10 C G 11OAST UARD 12 For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for oper-13 ations and support including the Coast Guard Reserve; 14 purchase or lease of not to exceed 30 passenger motor ve-15 hicles, which shall be for replacement only; purchase or 16 lease of small boats for contingent and emergent require-17 ments (at a unit cost of not more than $700,000) and 18 repairs and service-life replacements, not to exceed a total 19 of $31,000,000; purchase, lease, or improvements of boats 20 necessary for overseas deployments and activities; pay-21 ments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97-377 (42 22 U.S.C. 402 note; 96 Stat. 1920); and recreation and wel-23 fare; $11,272,401,000, of which $530,000,000 shall be for 24 defense-related activities; of which $24,500,000 shall be 25

derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry 1 out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution 2 Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)); of which 3 $20,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 4 2028; of which $25,335,000 shall remain available until 5 September 30, 2030, for environmental compliance and 6 restoration; and of which $400,000,000 shall remain avail-7 able until September 30, 2027, which shall only be avail-8 able for depot level maintenance: Provided, That not to 9 exceed $23,000 shall be for official reception and represen-10 tation expenses. 11 , , 12 For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for pro-13 curement, construction, and improvements, including aids 14 to navigation, shore facilities (including facilities at De-15 partment of Defense installations used by the Coast 16 Guard), and vessels and aircraft, including equipment re-17 lated thereto, $991,872,000, to remain available until Sep-18 tember 30, 2030; of which $20,000,000 shall be derived 19 from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry out the 20 purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act 21 of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)). 22 23 For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for re-24 search and development; and for maintenance, rehabilita-25

tion, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment; 1 $6,763,000, to remain available until September 30, 2028, 2 of which $500,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-3 ability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section 4 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 5 2712(a)(5)): Provided, That there may be credited to and 6 used for the purposes of this appropriation funds received 7 from State and local governments, other public authori-8 ties, private sources, and foreign countries for expenses 9 incurred for research, development, testing, and evalua-10 tion. 11 12 RETIRED PAY For retired pay, including the payment of obligations 13 otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this pur-14 pose, payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family 15 Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, payment for ca-16 reer status bonuses, payment of continuation pay under 17 section 356 of title 37, United States Code, concurrent 18 receipts, combat-related special compensation, and pay-19 ments for medical care of retired personnel and their de-20 pendents under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, 21 $1,249,000,000, to remain available until expended. 22

U S S SNITED TATES ECRET ERVICE 2 For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 3 Service for operations and support, including purchase of 4 not to exceed 652 vehicles for police-type use; hire of pas-5 senger motor vehicles; purchase of motorcycles made in 6 the United States; hire of aircraft; rental of buildings in 7 the District of Columbia; fencing, lighting, guard booths, 8 and other facilities on private or other property not in 9 Government ownership or control, as may be necessary to 10 perform protective functions; conduct of and participation 11 in firearms matches; presentation of awards; conduct of 12 behavioral research in support of protective intelligence 13 and operations; payment in advance for commercial ac-14 commodations as may be necessary to perform protective 15 functions; and payment, without regard to section 5702 16 of title 5, United States Code, of subsistence expenses of 17 employees who are on protective missions, whether at or 18 away from their duty stations; $3,128,304,000, of which 19 $96,299,000 shall remain available until September 30, 20 2027, and of which $20,000,000 shall remain available 21 until September 30, 2028; and of which $6,000,000 shall 22 be for a grant for activities related to investigations of 23 missing and exploited children; and of which up to 24 $33,000,000 may be for calendar year 2025 premium pay 25

in excess of the annual equivalent of the limitation on the 1 rate of pay contained in section 5547(a) of title 5, United 2 States Code, pursuant to section 2 of the Overtime Pay 3 for Protective Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), 4 as last amended by Public Law 118-38: Provided, That 5 not to exceed $19,125 shall be for official reception and 6 representation expenses: Provided further, That not to ex-7 ceed $100,000 shall be to provide technical assistance and 8 equipment to foreign law enforcement organizations in 9 criminal investigations within the jurisdiction of the 10 United States Secret Service. 11 , , 12 For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 13 Service for procurement, construction, and improvements, 14 $118,517,000, of which $96,167,000 shall remain avail-15 able until September 30, 2028, and of which $22,350,000 16 shall remain available until September 30, 2030. 17 18 For necessary expenses of the United States Secret 19 Service for research and development, $3,250,000, to re-20 main available until September 30, 2027. 21 A P 22 ROVISIONS S . 201. Section 201 of the Department of Home-23 EC land Security Appropriations Act, 2018 (division F of 24 Public Law 115-141), related to overtime compensation 25

limitations, shall apply with respect to funds made avail-1 able in this Act in the same manner as such section ap-2 plied to funds made available in that Act, except that ''fis-3 cal year 2026'' shall be substituted for ''fiscal year 2018''. 4 . 202. Funding made available under the head-5 SEC ings ''U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Operations 6 and Support'' and ''U.S. Customs and Border Protec-7 tion--Procurement, Construction, and Improvements'' 8 shall be available for customs expenses when necessary to 9 maintain operations and prevent adverse personnel actions 10 in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, in addition 11 to funding provided by sections 740 and 1406i of title 48, 12 United States Code. 13 S . 203. As authorized by section 601(b) of the 14 EC United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Im-15 plementation Act (Public Law 112-42), fees collected 16 from passengers arriving from Canada, Mexico, or an ad-17 jacent island pursuant to section 13031(a)(5) of the Con-18 solidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 19 U.S.C. 58c(a)(5)) shall be available until expended. 20 S . 204. (a) For an additional amount for ''U.S. 21 EC Customs and Border Protection--Operations and Sup-22 port'', $31,000,000, to remain available until expended, 23 to be reduced by amounts collected and credited to this 24 appropriation in fiscal year 2026 from amounts authorized 25

to be collected by section 286(i) of the Immigration and 1 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(i)), section 10412 of the 2 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 3 U.S.C. 8311), and section 817 of the Trade Facilitation 4 and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (Public Law 114- 5 125), or other such authorizing language. 6 (b) To the extent that amounts realized from such 7 collections exceed $31,000,000, those amounts in excess 8 of $31,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation, to 9 remain available until expended. 10 S . 205. None of the funds made available in this 11 EC Act for U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be used 12 to prevent an individual not in the business of importing 13 a prescription drug (within the meaning of section 801(g) 14 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) from im-15 porting a prescription drug from Canada that complies 16 with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Provided, 17 That this section shall apply only to individuals trans-18 porting on their person a personal-use quantity of the pre-19 scription drug, not to exceed a 90-day supply: Provided 20

further, That the prescription drug may not be-- 21

(1) a controlled substance, as defined in section 22 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 23 802); or 24

(2) a biological product, as defined in section 1 351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 2 262). 3 S. 206. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 4EC of law, none of the funds provided in this or any other 5 Act shall be used to approve a waiver of the navigation 6 and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to section 501(b) of 7 title 46, United States Code, for the transportation of 8 crude oil distributed from and to the Strategic Petroleum 9 Reserve until the Secretary of Homeland Security, after 10 consultation with the Secretaries of the Departments of 11 Energy and Transportation and representatives from the 12 United States flag maritime industry, takes adequate 13 measures to ensure the use of United States flag vessels. 14 (b) The Secretary shall notify the Committees on Ap-15 propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-16 ate, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 17 of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 18 Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate 19 within two business days of any request for waivers of 20 navigation and vessel-inspection laws pursuant to section 21 501(b) of title 46, United States Code, with respect to 22 such transportation, and the disposition of such requests. 23

. 207. (a) Beginning on the date of enactment 1SEC of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 2 not-- 3 (1) establish, collect, or otherwise impose any 4 new border crossing fee on individuals crossing the 5 Southern border or the Northern border at a land 6 port of entry; or 7 (2) conduct any study relating to the imposition 8 of a border crossing fee. 9 (b) In this section, the term ''border crossing fee'' 10 means a fee that every pedestrian, cyclist, and driver and 11 passenger of a private motor vehicle is required to pay 12 for the privilege of crossing the Southern border or the 13 Northern border at a land port of entry. 14 S. 208. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date 15EC of enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Cus-16 toms and Border Protection shall submit an expenditure 17 plan for any amounts made available for ''U.S. Customs 18 and Border Protection--Procurement, Construction, and 19 Improvements'' in this Act and prior Acts to the Commit-20 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 21 and the Senate. 22 (b) No such amounts provided in this Act may be 23 obligated prior to the submission of such plan. 24

. 209. (a) Funds made available in this Act may 1SEC be used to alter operations within the National Targeting 2 Center of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 3 (b) None of the funds provided by this Act, provided 4 by previous appropriations Acts that remain available for 5 obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided 6 from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States 7 derived by the collection of fees available to the compo-8 nents funded by this Act, may be used to reduce antici-9 pated or planned vetting operations at existing locations 10 unless specifically authorized by a statute enacted after 11 the date of enactment of this Act. 12 S. 210. None of the funds made available for Bor-13EC der Security Assets and Infrastructure under the heading 14 ''U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Procurement, 15 Construction, and Improvements'' in this Act or prior ap-16 propriations Acts shall be used for the procurement or de-17 ployment of surveillance systems that are not autonomous, 18 as such term is defined in section 90004 of Public Law 19 119-21. 20 S. 211. The Secretary shall ensure that the No-21EC vember 30, 2021, policy statement from U.S. Customs and 22 Border Protection titled ''Policy Statement and Required 23 Actions Regarding Pregnant, Postpartum, Nursing Indi-24 viduals, and Infants in Custody,'' or substantively similar 25

standards of treatment developed in consultation with ma-1 ternal and pediatric health providers and experts, are in 2 effect and are fully implemented to safeguard the health, 3 safety, and rights of pregnant women in U.S. Customs 4 and Border Protection custody. 5 . 212. None of the funds provided under the 6 SEC heading ''U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-- 7 Operations and Support'' may be used to continue a dele-8 gation of law enforcement authority authorized under sec-9 tion 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 10 U.S.C. 1357(g)) if the Department of Homeland Security 11 Inspector General determines that the terms of the agree-12 ment governing the delegation of authority have been ma-13 terially violated. 14 S . 213. (a) None of the funds provided under the 15 EC heading ''U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-- 16 Operations and Support'' may be used to continue any 17 contract for the provision of detention services if the two 18 most recent overall performance evaluations received by 19 the contracted facility are less than ''adequate'' or the 20 equivalent median score in any subsequent performance 21 evaluation system. 22 (b) The performance evaluations referenced in sub-23 section (a) shall be conducted by the U.S. Immigration 24

and Customs Enforcement Office of Professional Respon-1 sibility. 2 . 214. Without regard to the limitation as to time 3 SEC and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, the Secretary 4 may reprogram within and transfer funds to ''U.S. Immi-5 gration and Customs Enforcement--Operations and Sup-6 port'' as necessary to ensure the detention of aliens 7 prioritized for removal. 8 S . 215. The reports required to be submitted under 9 EC section 216 of the Department of Homeland Security Ap-10 propriations Act, 2021 (division F of Public Law 116- 11

1. shall continue to be submitted semimonthly and each 12
   matter required to be included in such reports by such 13 section 216 shall apply in the same manner and to the 14 same extent during the period described in such section 15

2. 16
   S . 216. The terms and conditions of sections 216 17EC and 217 of the Department of Homeland Security Appro-18 priations Act, 2020 (division D of Public Law 116-93) 19 shall apply to this Act. 20 S . 217. (a) Not later than 30 days after the date 21EC of enactment of this Act, the Director of U.S. Immigration 22 and Customs Enforcement shall provide a briefing and 23 submit an initial, written obligation plan for funding pro-24 vided under the heading ''U.S. Immigration and Customs 25

Enforcement'' in this or any other Act, including prior 1 Acts, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 2 of Representatives and the Senate, which shall-- 3 (1) be delineated by month, level II program, 4 project, and activity, and pay and non-pay require-5 ments; 6 (2) incorporate and delineate all funding 7 sources available to U.S. Immigration and Customs 8 Enforcement, to include unobligated carryover bal-9 ances and fees; and 10 (3) contain data-driven assumptions for major 11 contract costs, projected personnel levels, and oper-12 ational and policy considerations. 13 (b) The Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs 14 Enforcement shall provide monthly briefings and written 15 updates to the plan required in subsection (a), which shall 16 include, at a minimum, the following information as of the 17 conclusion of the preceding month-- 18 (1) actual obligations and expenditures, includ-19 ing prior year; 20 (2) carryover from prior year unobligated bal-21 ances; 22 (3) resource projections for the remainder of 23 the fiscal year; 24

(4) payroll projections for the remainder of the 1 fiscal year, based on forecasted gains and losses; 2 (5) identification of any contracts with a period 3 of performance extending beyond the current fiscal 4 year; 5 (6) obligations and expenditures for specific do-6 mestic and international investigative mission areas, 7 including countering fentanyl and child exploitation; 8 (7) the rate of operations for the Custody Oper-9 ations, Alternatives to Detention, and Transpor-10 tation and Removal Operations programs, projects, 11 and activities, which shall include a projection of the 12 exhaustion of funds based on current resources and 13 operational levels; and 14 (8) the initial obligation plan as described in 15 subsection (a), displayed unchanged for the purposes 16 of comparison. 17 (c) The monthly updates required by subsection (b) 18 shall be submitted no later than 15 days after the begin-19 ning of the month following the submission of the initial 20 obligation plan as described in subsection (a). 21 (d)(1) For an additional amount for ''U.S. Immigra-22 tion and Customs Enforcement--Operations and Sup-23 port--Executive Leadership and Oversight'', $100,000, 24 which shall be made available for Mission Support--Exec-25

utive Leadership and Oversight on the sixteenth day of 1 each month, in a total amount for the fiscal year not to 2 exceed $700,000. 3 (2) Beginning 30 days after the date of enactment 4 of this Act, amounts in paragraph (1) shall only be made 5 available for obligation in a given month if the reporting 6 requirements set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this 7 section are provided to the Committees on Appropriations 8 of the House of Representatives and the Senate within the 9 timeframe required pursuant to subsections (a) and (c), 10 respectively. 11 S . 218. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date 12 EC of enactment of this Act, the Director of U.S. Immigration 13 and Customs Enforcement shall submit to the Committees 14 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 15 Senate a written execution plan for the funding provided 16 by Public Law 119-21 for detention facilities, to include 17 the following elements: 18 (1) the location, number of beds, and estimated 19 cost per bed of each detention facility utilized by or 20 on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs En-21 forcement in the preceding quarter; 22 (2) the location, number of beds, and estimated 23 cost per bed of each detention facility projected to 24

be utilized by or on behalf of U.S. Immigration and 1 Customs Enforcement in the subsequent quarter; 2 (3) the total number of beds projected to be uti-3 lized by or on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Cus-4 toms Enforcement through the end of the fiscal 5 year; 6 (4) any associated increase or decrease in trans-7 portation and removal operations cost estimates as-8 sociated with paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this 9 section, to include removal flights; and 10 (5) a general overview of the desired geographic 11 end-state for detention facilities, any new operational 12 models or strategies related to detention capacity 13 that will be utilized, and a comparison of current de-14 tention capacity against projected end-state capacity. 15 (b)(1) Subsequent to the submission of the written 16 execution plan provided in subsection (a), the Director of 17 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall provide 18 to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-19 resentatives and the Senate a briefing and written update 20 to such execution plan not later than 30 days following 21 the end of each fiscal quarter; and 22 (2) each briefing and written update described 23 in paragraph (1) shall include a review of the execu-24 tion of funds for the most recently completed quar-25

ter, a comparison of the actual execution of funds in 1 relation to the planned execution of funds, and any 2 remedial actions taken in the case of a failure to 3 execute funding in accordance with the initial execu-4 tion plan as described in subsection (a); and 5 (c) The initial execution plan described in subsection 6 (a) shall be displayed unchanged for purposes of compari-7 son in the briefings and written updates described in sub-8 section (b). 9 S . 219. (a) None of the funds made available by 10EC this Act or any other Act may be used to reduce the pres-11 ence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 12 ´attaches or liaisons at international U.S. embassies or con-13 sulates for the purposes of international investigations or 14 partnerships with foreign law enforcement. 15 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a reduction of 16 presence in a specific country if-- 17 (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security, in col-18 laboration with the Secretary of State, provides a 19 written explanation of how maintaining a collabo-20 rative investigatory presence in a specific country 21 undermines U.S. foreign policy interests in that 22 country to the Committees on Appropriations of the 23 House of Representatives and the Senate; or 24

(2) a country requests the cessation of collabo-1 rative law enforcement activities performed by the 2 ´attacheor liaison stationed at the embassy or con-3 sulate to their country. 4 . 220. (a) Members of the United States House 5SEC of Representatives and the United States Senate, includ-6 ing the leadership; the heads of Federal agencies and com-7 missions, including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, 8 Under Secretaries, and Assistant Secretaries of the De-9 partment of Homeland Security; the United States Attor-10 ney General, Deputy Attorney General, Assistant Attor-11 neys General, and the United States Attorneys; and senior 12 members of the Executive Office of the President, includ-13 ing the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 14 shall not be exempt from Federal passenger and baggage 15 screening. 16 (b) None of the funds made available in this or any 17 other Act, including prior Acts, or provided from any ac-18 counts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 19 the collection of fees available to the components funded 20 by this Act may be used to carry out legislation altering 21 the applicability of the screening requirements outlined in 22 subsection (a). 23 S. 221. Notwithstanding section 44923 of title 49, 24EC United States Code, for fiscal year 2026, any funds in 25

the Aviation Security Capital Fund established by section 1 44923(h) of title 49, United States Code, may be used 2 for the procurement and installation of explosives detec-3 tion systems or for the issuance of other transaction agree-4 ments for the purpose of funding projects described in sec-5 tion 44923(a) of such title. 6 S . 222. Not later than 45 days after the submis-7 EC sion of the President's budget proposal, the Administrator 8 of the Transportation Security Administration shall sub-9 mit to the Committees on Appropriations and Homeland 10 Security of the House of Representatives and the Commit-11 tees on Appropriations and Commerce, Science, and 12 Transportation of the Senate a single report that fulfills 13 the following requirements: 14 (1) a Capital Investment Plan, both constrained 15 and unconstrained, that includes a plan for contin-16 uous and sustained capital investment in new, and 17 the replacement of aged, transportation security 18 equipment; 19 (2) the 5-year technology investment plan as re-20 quired by section 1611 of title XVI of the Homeland 21 Security Act of 2002, as amended by section 3 of 22 the Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act 23 (Public Law 113-245); and 24

(3) the Advanced Integrated Passenger Screen-1 ing Technologies report as required by the Senate 2 Report accompanying the Department of Homeland 3 Security Appropriations Act, 2019 (Senate Report 4 115-283). 5 . 223. Section 515(b) of Public Law 108-334 (49 6SEC U.S.C. 44945 note) is amended by striking ''report'' each 7 place it appears (including in the subsection heading) and 8 inserting ''briefing'' and by striking ''transmit to'' and in-9 serting ''provide''. 10 S. 224. (a) None of the funds made available by 11EC this Act under the heading ''Coast Guard--Operations 12 and Support'' shall be for expenses incurred for rec-13 reational vessels under section 12114 of title 46, United 14 States Code, except to the extent fees are collected from 15 owners of yachts and credited to the appropriation made 16 available by this Act under the heading ''Coast Guard-- 17 Operations and Support''. 18 (b) To the extent such fees are insufficient to pay 19 expenses of recreational vessel documentation under such 20 section 12114, and there is a backlog of recreational vessel 21 applications, personnel performing non-recreational vessel 22 documentation functions under subchapter II of chapter 23 121 of title 46, United States Code, may perform docu-24 mentation under section 12114. 25

. 225. Notwithstanding any other provision of 1SEC law, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall submit 2 to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-3 resentatives and the Senate a future-years capital invest-4 ment plan as described in the second proviso under the 5 heading ''Coast Guard--Acquisition, Construction, and 6 Improvements'' in the Department of Homeland Security 7 Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 114-4), which shall 8 be subject to the requirements in the third and fourth pro-9 visos under such heading. 10 S. 226. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 11EC to reduce the Coast Guard's legacy Operations Systems 12 Center mission or its government-employed or contract 13 staff levels. 14 S. 227. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 15EC may be used to conduct, or to implement the results of, 16 a competition under Office of Management and Budget 17 Circular A-76 for activities performed with respect to the 18 Coast Guard National Vessel Documentation Center. 19 S. 228. Funds made available in this Act may be 20EC used to alter operations within the Civil Engineering Pro-21 gram of the Coast Guard nationwide, including civil engi-22 neering units, facilities design and construction centers, 23 maintenance and logistics commands, and the Coast 24 Guard Academy, except that none of the funds provided 25

in this Act may be used to reduce operations within any 1 civil engineering unit unless specifically authorized by a 2 statute enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 3 . 229. Amounts deposited into the Coast Guard 4 SEC Housing Fund in fiscal year 2026 shall be available until 5 expended to carry out the purposes of section 2946 of title 6 14, United States Code, and shall be in addition to funds 7 otherwise available for such purposes. 8 S . 230. (a) For an additional amount for ''Coast 9 EC Guard--Procurement, Construction, and Improvements'', 10 $98,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 11 2030, for the procurement and acquisition of MQ-9 air-12 craft and associated base stations, equipment related to 13 such aircraft and associated base stations, and program 14 management for such aircraft and base stations. 15 (b) None of the funds made available for the Depart-16 ment of Homeland Security in this or any prior Act may 17 be used to procure or acquire long-range unmanned air-18 craft with kinetic capabilities or to equip any long-range 19 unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities. 20 S . 231. None of the funds made available to the 21 EC United States Coast Guard by this Act may be available 22 for implementation of Force Design 2028 until the Coast 23 Guard provides the Committees on Appropriations of the 24 House of Representatives and the Senate detailed brief-25

ings on the initiatives of organization, people, technology, 1 and contracting and acquisitions. 2 . 232. The United States Secret Service is au-3 SEC thorized to obligate funds in anticipation of reimburse-4 ments from executive agencies, as defined in section 105 5 of title 5, United States Code, for personnel receiving 6 training sponsored by the James J. Rowley Training Cen-7 ter, except that total obligations at the end of the fiscal 8 year shall not exceed total budgetary resources available 9 under the heading ''United States Secret Service--Oper-10 ations and Support'' at the end of the fiscal year. 11 S . 233. (a) None of the funds made available to 12 EC the United States Secret Service by this Act or by previous 13 appropriations Acts may be made available for the protec-14 tion of the head of a Federal agency other than the Sec-15 retary of Homeland Security. 16 (b) The Director of the United States Secret Service 17 may enter into agreements to provide such protection on 18 a fully reimbursable basis. 19 S . 234. For purposes of section 503(a)(3) of this 20 EC Act, up to $15,000,000 may be reprogrammed within 21 ''United States Secret Service--Operations and Support''. 22 S . 235. Funding made available in this Act for 23 EC ''United States Secret Service--Operations and Support'' 24 is available for travel of United States Secret Service em-25

ployees on protective missions without regard to the limi-1 tations on such expenditures in this or any other Act if 2 the Director of the United States Secret Service or a des-3 ignee notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 4 House of Representatives and the Senate 10 or more days 5 in advance, or as early as practicable, prior to such ex-6 penditures. 7 . 236. Of the amounts made available by this Act 8 SEC under the heading ''United States Secret Service--Oper-9 ations and Support'', $2,000,000, to remain available 10 until expended, shall be distributed as a grant or coopera-11 tive agreement for existing National Computer Forensics 12 Institute facilities currently used by the United States Se-13 cret Service to carry out activities under section 383 of 14 title 6, United States Code. 15 S . 237. (a) Section 118 of the Treasury and Gen-16 EC eral Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 17 5547 note) is amended, in the first sentence, by inserting 18 ''(or, for 2024, to the extent that such aggregate amount 19 would exceed the per annum rate of salary payable under 20 section 104 of title 3, United States Code)'' before the 21 period at the end. 22 (b) Subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on 23 December 31, 2023. 24

(c) Not later than 180 days after the date of enact-1 ment of this Act, and annually thereafter through 2028, 2 the Director shall submit to the Committee on Appropria-3 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate; the 4 Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on 5 Oversight and Accountability, and the Committee on the 6 Judiciary of the House of Representatives; and the Com-7 mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 8 and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate of Con-9 gress a report describing the steps that the United States 10 Secret Service is taking to address the increased protective 11 service demands placed upon United States Secret Service 12 personnel. 13 (d) Each report required under subparagraph (c) 14 shall include the following: 15 (1) An analysis of the current (as of the date 16 on which the report is submitted) operational de-17 mands and staffing levels with respect to the United 18 States Secret Service. 19 (2) Recommended strategies for reducing over-20 time requirements for United States Secret Service 21 personnel, including-- 22 (A) the appointment of additional per-23 sonnel; 24

(B) solutions such that sufficient resources 1 are available throughout each year without the 2 need for exceptions to, or waivers of, premium 3 pay limitations; 4 (C) the redistribution of workload among 5 United States Secret Service personnel; and 6 (D) other improvements in operational effi-7 ciency with respect to the United States Secret 8 Service. 9 (e) Within the reports required under paragraphs (3) 10 and (4) of section 2(c) of the Overtime Pay for Protective 11 Services Act of 2023 (Public Law 118-38; 138 Stat. 13) 12 that are submitted after the date of enactment of this Act, 13 the Director shall include information about-- 14 (1) the average number of overtime hours and 15 range of number of overtime hours completed by 16 United States Secret Service personnel receiving pre-17 mium pay above the pay limitation in subsection (a) 18 of section 5547 of title 5, United States Code; and 19 (2) the average number of overtime hours and 20 range of number of overtime hours completed by 21 United States Secret Service personnel who are not 22 fully compensated for their overtime because their 23 premium pay would be above the pay limitation in 24

section 2 of the Overtime Pay Protection Act of 1 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note). 2 (f) The matter preceding the first proviso under the 3 heading ''United States Secret Service--Operations and 4 Support'' in division C of Public Law 118-47 shall be ap-5 plied to funds appropriated by this Act by substituting 6 ''$40,000,000'' for ''$24,000,000'' and substituting 7 ''2024'' for ''2023''. 8 . 238. Section 211 of the Department of Home-9EC land Security Appropriations Act, 2021 (division F of 10 Public Law 116-260), prohibiting the use of funds for the 11 construction of fencing in certain areas, shall apply with 12 respect to funds made available in this Act in the same 13 manner as such section applied to funds made available 14 in that Act. 15 TITLE III 16 PROTECTION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND 17 RECOVERY 18 I S 19CYBERSECURITY AND SNFRASTRUCTURE AECURITY 20 GENCY 21 For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-22 frastructure Security Agency for operations and support, 23 $2,218,634,000, which shall be for the purposes and in 24 the amounts specified in the ''Final Bill'' column for Cy-25

bersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Oper-1 ations and Support in the ''Department of Homeland Se-2 curity Appropriations Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory 3 statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 4 division A of this consolidated Act), of which amounts 5 made available for Risk Management Operations, National 6 Infrastructure Simulation Analysis Center shall remain 7 available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That not 8 to exceed $3,825 shall be for official reception and rep-9 resentation expenses. 10 , , 11 For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and In-12 frastructure Security Agency for procurement, construc-13 tion, and improvements, $386,464,000, to remain avail-14 able until September 30, 2028. 15 F E M A 16 EDERAL MERGENCY ANAGEMENT GENCY 17 For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency 18 Management Agency for operations and support, 19 $1,667,038,000: Provided, That not less than $3,000,000 20 shall be for the Emergency Management Assistance Com-21 pact: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,250 shall 22 be for official reception and representation expenses. 23

, , For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency 2 Management Agency for procurement, construction, and 3 improvements, $156,419,000, of which $92,794,000 shall 4 remain available until September 30, 2028, and of which 5 $63,625,000 shall remain available until September 30, 6

1. 7 8FEDERAL ASSISTANCE For activities of the Federal Emergency Management 9 Agency for Federal assistance through grants, contracts, 10 cooperative agreements, and other activities, 11 $3,836,748,513, which shall be allocated as follows: 12 (1) $494,000,000 for the State Homeland Secu-13 rity Grant Program under section 2004 of the 14 Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 605), of 15 which $85,500,000 shall be for Operation 16 Stonegarden and $14,250,000 shall be for Tribal 17 Homeland Security Grants under section 2005 of 18 the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 606): 19

Provided, That notwithstanding subsection (c)(4) of 20

such section 2004, for fiscal year 2026, the Com-21 monwealth of Puerto Rico shall make available to 22 local and tribal governments amounts provided to 23 the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under this para-24

graph in accordance with subsection (c)(1) of such 1 section 2004. 2 (2) $584,250,000 for the Urban Area Security 3 Initiative under section 2003 of the Homeland Secu-4 rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604). 5 (3) $300,000,000 for the Nonprofit Security 6 Grant Program under section 2009 of the Homeland 7 Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 609a), of which 8 $150,000,000 is for eligible recipients located in 9 high-risk urban areas that receive funding under 10 section 2003 of such Act and $150,000,000 is for el-11 igible recipients that are located outside such areas: 12

Provided, That eligible recipients are those described 13

in section 2009(b) of such Act (6 U.S.C. 609a(b)) 14 or are an otherwise eligible recipient at risk of a ter-15 rorist or other extremist attack. 16 (4) $99,750,000 for Public Transportation Se-17 curity Assistance, Railroad Security Assistance, and 18 Over-the-Road Bus Security Assistance under sec-19 tions 1406, 1513, and 1532 of the Implementing 20 Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 21 2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135, 1163, and 1182), of which 22 $9,500,000 shall be for Amtrak security and 23 $1,900,000 shall be for Over-the-Road Bus Security: 24

Provided, That such public transportation security 25

assistance shall be provided directly to public trans-1 portation agencies. 2 (5) $95,000,000 for Port Security Grants in ac-3 cordance with section 70107 of title 46, United 4 States Code. 5 (6) $684,000,000, to remain available until 6 September 30, 2027, of which $342,000,000 shall be 7 for Assistance to Firefighter Grants and 8 $342,000,000 shall be for Staffing for Adequate 9 Fire and Emergency Response Grants under sec-10 tions 33 and 34 respectively of the Federal Fire Pre-11 vention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229 12 and 2229a). 13 (7) $337,250,000 for emergency management 14 performance grants under the National Flood Insur-15 ance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Rob-16 ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-17 sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121), the Earthquake Haz-18 ards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701), sec-19 tion 762 of title 6, United States Code, and Reorga-20 nization Plan No. 3 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 21 (8) $297,113,000 for necessary expenses for 22 Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis, in addi-23 tion to and to supplement any other sums appro-24 priated under the National Flood Insurance Fund, 25

and such additional sums as may be provided by 1 States or other political subdivisions for cost-shared 2 mapping activities under section 1360(f)(2) of the 3 National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4 4101(f)(2)), to remain available until expended. 5 (9) $11,400,000 for Regional Catastrophic Pre-6 paredness Grants. 7 (10) $11,400,000 for Rehabilitation of High 8 Hazard Potential Dams under section 8A of the Na-9 tional Dam Safety Program Act (33 U.S.C. 467f-2). 10 (11) $123,500,000 for the emergency food and 11 shelter program under title III of the McKinney- 12 Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331), 13 to remain available until September 30, 2027: Pro-14

vided, That not to exceed 3.5 percent shall be for 15

total administrative costs. 16 (12) $48,000,000 for the Next Generation 17 Warning System. 18 (13) $272,671,513 for Community Project 19 Funding and Congressionally Directed Spending 20 grants, which shall be for the purposes, and the 21 amounts, specified in the table entitled ''Homeland 22 Security--Community Project Funding/Congression-23 ally Directed Spending'' under the ''Disclosure of 24 Earmarks and Congressionally Directed Spending 25

Items'' heading in the explanatory statement de-1 scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 2 A of this consolidated Act), of which-- 3 (A) $82,957,854, in addition to amounts 4 otherwise made available for such purpose, is 5 for emergency operations center grants under 6 section 614 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 7 Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 8 U.S.C. 5196c); and 9 (B) $189,713,659, in addition to amounts 10 otherwise made available for such purpose, is 11 for pre-disaster mitigation grants under section 12 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 13 and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 14 5133(e)), notwithstanding subsections (f), (g), 15 and (l) of that section (42 U.S.C. 5133(f), (g), 16 (l)). 17 (14) $478,414,000 to sustain current oper-18 ations for training, exercises, technical assistance, 19 and other programs, of which-- 20 (A) $85,711,000 is for the Center for Do-21 mestic Preparedness; 22 (B) $17,100,000 is for the Center for 23 Homeland Defense and Security; 24

(C) $33,366,000 is for the Emergency 1 Management Institute; 2 (D) $72,140,000 is for the United States 3 Fire Administration; 4 (E) $95,950,000 is for the National Do-5 mestic Preparedness Consortium; 6 (F) $15,200,000 is for Continuing Train-7 ing Grants; 8 (G) $21,266,000 is for the National Exer-9 cise Program; 10 (H) $83,657,000 is for the Biological Sup-11 port Program; 12 (I) $34,465,000 is for the Securing the 13 Cities Program; and 14 (J) $19,559,000 is for Countering Weap-15 ons of Mass Destruction Training, Exercises, 16 and Readiness. 17 18DISASTER RELIEF FUND For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert 19

1. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 20 (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $26,367,000,000, to remain 21 available until expended: Provided, That such amount 22 shall be for major disasters declared pursuant to the Rob-23 ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 24 Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and is designated by the 25

Congress as being for disaster relief pursuant to a concur-1 rent resolution on the budget. 2 3 NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND For activities under the National Flood Insurance 4 Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Flood Disaster 5 Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the 6 Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 7 (Public Law 112-141, 126 Stat. 916), and the Home-8 owner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (Public 9 Law 113-89; 128 Stat. 1020), $226,000,000, to remain 10 available until September 30, 2027, which shall be derived 11 from offsetting amounts collected under section 1308(d) 12 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 13 4015(d)); of which $16,302,000 shall be available for mis-14 sion support associated with flood management; and of 15 which $209,698,000 shall be available for flood plain man-16 agement and flood mapping: Provided, That any addi-17 tional fees collected pursuant to section 1308(d) of the 18 National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 19 4015(d)) shall be credited as offsetting collections to this 20 account, to be available for flood plain management and 21 flood mapping: Provided further, That in fiscal year 2026, 22 no funds shall be available from the National Flood Insur-23 ance Fund under section 1310 of the National Flood In-24 surance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4017) in excess of-- 25

(1) $230,669,000 for operating expenses and 1 salaries and expenses associated with flood insurance 2 operations; 3 (2) $1,505,000,000 for commissions and taxes 4 of agents; 5 (3) such sums as are necessary for interest on 6 Treasury borrowings; and 7 (4) $175,000,000, which shall remain available 8 until expended, for flood mitigation actions and for 9 flood mitigation assistance under section 1366 of the 10 National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 11 4104c), notwithstanding sections 1366(e) and 12 1310(a)(7) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e), 4017): 13

Provided further, That the amounts collected under section 14

102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 15 U.S.C. 4012a) and section 1366(e) of the National Flood 16 Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e)), shall be de-17 posited in the National Flood Insurance Fund to supple-18 ment other amounts specified as available for section 1366 19 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, notwith-20 standing section 102(f)(8), section 1366(e) of the National 21 Flood Insurance Act of 1968, and paragraphs (1) through 22 (3) of section 1367(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4012a(f)(8), 23 4104c(e), 4104d(b)(1)-(3)): Provided further, That total 24 administrative costs shall not exceed 4 percent of the total 25

appropriation: Provided further, That up to $4,000,000 is 1 available to carry out section 24 of the Homeowner Flood 2 Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (42 U.S.C. 4033). 3 A P 4 SROVISIONS 5 (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) . 301. Funds made available under the heading 6 EC ''Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency--Op-7 erations and Support'' may be made available for the nec-8 essary expenses of procuring or providing access to cyber-9 security threat feeds for branches, agencies, independent 10 agencies, corporations, establishments, and instrumental-11 ities of the Federal Government of the United States, 12 State, local, tribal, and territorial entities, fusion centers 13 as described in section 210A of the Homeland Security 14 Act (6 U.S.C. 124h), and Information Sharing and Anal-15 ysis Organizations. 16 S . 302. (a) Notwithstanding section 2008(a)(12) 17 EC of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 18 609(a)(12)) or any other provision of law, not more than 19 5 percent of the amount of a grant made available in para-20 graphs (1) through (5) under ''Federal Emergency Man-21 agement Agency--Federal Assistance'', may be used by 22 the recipient for expenses directly related to administra-23 tion of the grant. 24

(b) The authority provided in subsection (a) shall also 1 apply to a state recipient for the administration of a grant 2 under such paragraph (3). 3 . 303. (a) Applications for grants under the head-4SEC ing ''Federal Emergency Management Agency--Federal 5 Assistance'', for paragraphs (1) through (5), shall be 6 made available to eligible applicants not later than 60 days 7 after the date of enactment of this Act, eligible applicants 8 shall submit applications not later than 80 days after the 9 grant announcement, and the Administrator of the Fed-10 eral Emergency Management Agency shall act within 65 11 days after the receipt of an application. 12 (b) Amounts appropriated by this Act for ''Federal 13 Emergency Management Agency--Operations and Sup-14 port'' shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day past the 15 60-day requirement that applications are not made avail-16 able to eligible applicants as required in subsection (a), 17 and the amount made available under such heading and 18 specified in the ''Department of Homeland Security Ap-19 propriations Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory state-20 ment described in section 4 (in the matter preceding divi-21 sion A of this Consolidated Act) for Mission Support shall 22 be correspondingly reduced by an equivalent amount. 23 S . 304. (a) Under the heading ''Federal Emer-24EC gency Management Agency--Federal Assistance'', for 25

grants under paragraphs (1) through (5), (9), and (10) 1 the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 2 Agency shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of 3 the House of Representatives and the Senate five full busi-4 ness days in advance of announcing publicly the intention 5 of making an award. 6 (b) If any such public announcement is made before 7 five full business days have elapsed following such briefing, 8 $1,000,000 of amounts appropriated by this Act for ''Fed-9 eral Emergency Management Agency--Operations and 10 Support'' shall be rescinded, and the amount made avail-11 able under such heading and specified in the ''Department 12 of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026'' table in 13 the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 14 matter preceding division A of this Consolidated Act) for 15 Mission Support shall be correspondingly reduced by an 16 equivalent amount. 17 . 305. Under the heading ''Federal Emergency 18 SEC Management Agency--Federal Assistance'', for grants 19 under paragraphs (1) and (2), the installation of commu-20 nications towers is not considered construction of a build-21 ing or other physical facility. 22 S . 306. The reporting requirements in paragraphs 23 EC (1) and (2) under the heading ''Federal Emergency Man-24 agement Agency--Disaster Relief Fund'' in the Depart-25

ment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 1 (Public Law 114-4), related to reporting on the Disaster 2 Relief Fund, shall be applied in fiscal year 2026 with re-3 spect to budget year 2027 and current fiscal year 2026, 4 respectively-- 5 (1) in paragraph (1) by substituting ''fiscal 6 year 2027'' for ''fiscal year 2016''; and 7 (2) in paragraph (2) by inserting ''business'' 8 after ''fifth''. 9 . 307. In making grants under the heading ''Fed-10 SEC eral Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assist-11 ance'', for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Re-12 sponse grants, the Administrator of the Federal Emer-13 gency Management Agency may grant waivers from the 14 requirements in subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), 15 (a)(1)(E), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section 34 of the 16 Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 17 U.S.C. 2229a). 18 S . 308. (a) The aggregate charges assessed during 19 EC fiscal year 2026, as authorized in title III of the Depart-20 ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-21 opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 22 1999 (42 U.S.C. 5196e), shall not be less than 100 per-23 cent of the amounts anticipated by the Department of 24

Homeland Security to be necessary for its Radiological 1 Emergency Preparedness Program for the next fiscal year. 2 (b) The methodology for assessment and collection of 3 fees shall be fair and equitable and shall reflect costs of 4 providing such services, including administrative costs of 5 collecting such fees. 6 (c) Such fees shall be deposited in a Radiological 7 Emergency Preparedness Program account as offsetting 8 collections and will become available for authorized pur-9 poses on October 1, 2026, and remain available until ex-10 pended. 11 . 309. In making grants under the heading ''Fed-12 SEC eral Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assist-13 ance'', for Assistance to Firefighter Grants, the Adminis-14 trator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 15 may waive subsection (k) of section 33 of the Federal Fire 16 Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229). 17 S . 310. Any unobligated balances of funds appro-18 EC priated in any prior Act for activities funded by the Na-19 tional Predisaster Mitigation Fund under section 203 of 20 the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-21 sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133), as in effect on the day 22 before the date of enactment of section 1234 of division 23 D of Public Law 115-254, shall be transferred to and 24 merged with funds set aside pursuant to subsection (i)(1) 25

of section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 1 and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133), as in 2 effect on the date of the enactment of this section. 3 . 311. Any unobligated balances of funds appro-4 SEC priated under the heading ''Federal Emergency Manage-5 ment Agency--Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis 6 Program'' in any prior Act shall be transferred to and 7 merged with funds appropriated under the heading ''Fed-8 eral Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assist-9 ance'' for necessary expenses for Flood Hazard Mapping 10 and Risk Analysis: Provided, That funds transferred pur-11 suant to this section shall be in addition to and supple-12 ment any other sums appropriated for such purposes 13 under the National Flood Insurance Fund and such addi-14 tional sums as may be provided by States or other political 15 subdivisions for cost-shared mapping activities under sec-16 tion 1360(f)(2) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 17 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101(f)(2)), to remain available until ex-18 pended. 19 S . 312. Each award for grants under the heading 20 EC ''Federal Emergency Management Agency--Federal As-21 sistance'' for paragraphs (1) through (10) and (12), shall 22 have a period of performance, as defined by 2 CFR 200.1, 23 that shall be of not less than three years and not more 24 than five years. 25

. 313. (a) The Administrator of the Federal 1SEC Emergency Management Agency shall post an interactive 2 dashboard on the public-facing website of the Federal 3 Emergency Management Agency with any request for re-4 imbursement for a covered expense, delineated by state 5 and any amount for individual assistance or public assist-6 ance related to emergency (42 U.S.C. 5122(1)) or major 7 disaster (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)) declarations under the Rob-8 ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 9 Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.)-- 10 (1) not more than 90 days after such informa-11 tion has been received by the Federal Emergency 12 Management Agency; and 13 (2) not more than 60 days after such informa-14 tion is under final review by the Department of 15 Homeland Security. 16 (b) The information in the interactive dashboard ref-17 erenced in subsection (a) shall include at a minimum the 18 information listed in subparagraphs (1) through (7) under 19 the heading in the paragraph titled ''Public and Individual 20 Assistance'' in the explanatory statement described in sec-21 tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-22 dated Act). 23 S. 314. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 24EC Act may be used to pause a training or grant funded 25

under the heading ''Federal Emergency Management 1 Agency--Federal Assistance''. 2 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary of 3 Homeland Security notifies the Committees on Appropria-4 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate not 5 more than 10 business days in advance of the pause. 6 (c) The notification required by subsection (b) shall 7 include an explanation for the pause, plans to make up 8 any missed classes resulting from the pause, and the budg-9 etary impact of any paused training. 10 (d) The Secretary may waive the requirement in sub-11 section (b) in the event of extraordinary circumstances 12 that imminently threaten the safety of human life or the 13 protection of property. 14 TITLE IV 15 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND 16 SERVICES 17 U.S. C I S 18 ITIZENSHIP AND MMIGRATION ERVICES 19 For necessary expenses of U.S. Citizenship and Im-20 migration Services for operations and support, including 21 for the E-Verify Program, $122,941,000: Provided, That 22 such amounts shall be in addition to any other amounts 23 made available for such purposes, and shall not be con-24 strued to require any reduction of any fee described in 25

section 286(m) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 1 (8 U.S.C. 1356(m)): Provided further, That not to exceed 2 $5,000 shall be for official reception and representation 3 expenses. 4 F L E T C 5 EDERAL AW NFORCEMENT RAINING ENTERS 6 For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-7 ment Training Centers for operations and support, includ-8 ing the purchase of not to exceed 117 vehicles for police- 9 type use and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services 10 as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 11 Code, $379,837,000, of which $75,551,000 shall remain 12 available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That not 13 to exceed $7,180 shall be for official reception and rep-14 resentation expenses. 15 , , 16 For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-17 ment Training Centers for procurement, construction, and 18 improvements, $18,300,000, to remain available until Sep-19 tember 30, 2030, for acquisition of necessary additional 20 real property and facilities, construction and ongoing 21 maintenance, facility improvements, and related expenses 22 of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. 23

T DSCIENCE ANDSECHNOLOGY AIRECTORATE 2 For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-3 nology Directorate for operations and support, including 4 the purchase or lease of not to exceed 5 vehicles, 5 $352,802,000, of which $201,183,000 shall remain avail-6 able until September 30, 2027: Provided, That not to ex-7 ceed $10,000 shall be for official reception and representa-8 tion expenses. 9 , , 10 For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-11 nology Directorate for procurement, construction, and im-12 provements, $51,500,000, to remain available until Sep-13 tember 30, 2030. 14 15 For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-16 nology Directorate for research and development, 17 $426,904,000, to remain available until September 30, 18

1. 19 P 20ROVISIONS . 401. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 21EC of law, funds otherwise made available to U.S. Citizenship 22 and Immigration Services may be used to acquire, operate, 23 equip, and dispose of up to 5 vehicles, for replacement 24

only, for areas where the Administrator of General Serv-1 ices does not provide vehicles for lease. 2 (b) The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 3 Services may authorize employees who are assigned to 4 those areas to use such vehicles to travel between the em-5 ployees' residences and places of employment. 6 . 402. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 7 SEC may be used to process or approve a competition under 8 Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 for serv-9 ices provided by employees (including employees serving 10 on a temporary or term basis) of U.S. Citizenship and Im-11 migration Services of the Department of Homeland Secu-12 rity who are known as Immigration Information Officers, 13 Immigration Service Analysts, Contact Representatives, 14 Investigative Assistants, or Immigration Services Officers. 15 S . 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of 16 EC law, any Federal funds made available to U.S. Citizenship 17 and Immigration Services may be used for the collection 18 and use of biometrics taken at a U.S. Citizenship and Im-19 migration Services Application Support Center that is 20 overseen virtually by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 21 Services personnel using appropriate technology. 22 S . 404. The Director of the Federal Law Enforce-23 EC ment Training Centers is authorized to distribute funds 24

to Federal law enforcement agencies for expenses incurred 1 participating in training accreditation. 2 . 405. The Federal Law Enforcement Training 3 SEC Accreditation Board, including representatives from the 4 Federal law enforcement community and non-Federal ac-5 creditation experts involved in law enforcement training, 6 shall lead the Federal law enforcement training accredita-7 tion process to continue the implementation of measuring 8 and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law 9 enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. 10 S . 406. (a) The Director of the Federal Law En-11 EC forcement Training Centers may accept transfers to its 12 ''Procurement, Construction, and Improvements'' account 13 from Government agencies requesting the construction of 14 special use facilities, as authorized by the Economy Act 15 (31 U.S.C. 1535(b)). 16 (b) The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers 17 shall maintain administrative control and ownership upon 18 completion of such facilities. 19 S . 407. The functions of the Federal Law Enforce-20 EC ment Training Centers instructor staff shall be classified 21 as inherently governmental for purposes of the Federal 22 Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 23 note). 24

TITLE V 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS 2 3(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) . 501. No part of any appropriation contained in 4SEC this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 5 current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 6 S. 502. Subject to the requirements of section 503 7EC 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 S. 503. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 15EC 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 2026, 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

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 2026 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 House of Representatives and the 20 Senate are notified at least 30 days in advance of such 21 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

appropriations Acts may be transferred between such ap-1 propriations if the Committees on Appropriations of the 2 House of Representatives and the Senate 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-- 10 (1) based upon an initial notification provided 11 after June 15, except in extraordinary circumstances 12 that imminently threaten the safety of human life or 13 the protection of property; 14 (2) to increase or decrease funding for grant 15 programs; or 16 (3) to create a program, project, or activity 17 pursuant to subsection (a)(1), including any new 18 function or requirement within any program, project, 19 or activity, not approved by Congress in the consid-20 eration of the enactment of this Act. 21 (e) The notification thresholds and procedures set 22 forth in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall apply to 23 any use of deobligated balances of funds provided in pre-24 vious Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 25

Acts that remain available for obligation in the current 1 year. 2 (f) Notwithstanding subsection (c), the Secretary of 3 Homeland Security may transfer to the fund established 4 by 8 U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 from appro-5 priations available to the Department of Homeland Secu-6 rity: Provided, That the Secretary shall notify the Com-7 mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 8 and the Senate at least 5 days in advance of such transfer. 9 . 504. (a) Section 504 of the Department of 10 SEC Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017 (division F 11 of Public Law 115-31), related to the operations of a 12 working capital fund, shall apply with respect to funds 13 made available in this Act in the same manner as such 14 section applied to funds made available in that Act. 15 (b) Funds from such working capital fund may be 16 obligated and expended in anticipation of reimbursements 17 from components of the Department of Homeland Secu-18 rity. 19 S . 505. (a) Except as otherwise specifically pro-20 EC vided by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated bal-21 ances remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2026, 22 as recorded in the financial records at the time of a re-23 programming notification, but not later than June 15, 24 2027, from appropriations for ''Operations and Support'' 25

for fiscal year 2026 in this Act shall remain available 1 through September 30, 2027, in the account and for the 2 purposes for which the appropriations were provided. 3 (b) Prior to the obligation of such funds, a notifica-4 tion shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropria-5 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate in 6 accordance with section 503 of this Act. 7 S . 506. (a) Funds made available by this Act for 8 EC intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically author-9 ized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the 10 National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fis-11 cal year 2026 until the enactment of an Act authorizing 12 intelligence activities for fiscal year 2026. 13 (b) Amounts described in subsection (a) made avail-14 able for ''Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Aware-15 ness--Operations and Support'' that exceed the amounts 16 in such authorization for such account shall be transferred 17 to and merged with amounts made available under the 18 heading ''Management Directorate--Operations and Sup-19 port''. 20 (c) Prior to the obligation of any funds transferred 21 under subsection (b), the Undersecretary for Management 22 shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the House 23 of Representatives and the Senate on a plan for the use 24 of such funds. 25

S . 507. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 1EC or the designee of the Secretary, shall notify the Commit-2 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 3 and the Senate at least three full business days in advance 4 of-- 5 (1) making or awarding a grant allocation or 6 grant in excess of $1,000,000 or a grant made from 7 the Disaster Relief Fund in excess of $100,000; 8 (2) making or awarding a contract, other trans-9 action agreement, or task or delivery order on a 10 multiple award contract, or to issue a letter of intent 11 totaling in excess of $2,000,000; 12 (3) awarding a task or delivery order requiring 13 an obligation of funds in an amount greater than 14 $5,000,000 from multi-year Department of Home-15 land Security funds; 16 (4) making a sole-source grant award; or 17 (5) announcing publicly the intention to make 18 or award items under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) 19 including a contract covered by the Federal Acquisi-20 tion Regulation. 21 (b) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 22 that compliance with this section would pose a substantial 23 risk to human life, health, or safety, an award may be 24 made without notification, and the Secretary shall notify 25

the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-1 resentatives and the Senate not later than three full busi-2 ness days after such an award is made or letter issued. 3 (c) A notification under this section-- 4 (1) may not involve funds that are not available 5 for obligation; and 6 (2) shall include the amount of the award; the 7 fiscal year for which the funds for the award were 8 appropriated; the type of contract; and the account 9 from which the funds are being drawn. 10 . 508. Notwithstanding any other provision of 11 SEC law, no agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any ad-12 ditional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing 13 locations, to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal 14 law enforcement training without advance notification to 15 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-16 resentatives and the Senate, except that the Federal Law 17 Enforcement Training Centers is authorized to obtain the 18 temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, 19 or other agreement for training that cannot be accommo-20 dated in existing Centers' facilities. 21 S . 509. None of the funds appropriated or other-22 EC wise made available by this Act may be used for expenses 23 for any construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition 24 project for which a prospectus otherwise required under 25

chapter 33 of title 40, United States Code, has not been 1 approved, except that necessary funds may be expended 2 for each project for required expenses for the development 3 of a proposed prospectus. 4 . 510. Sections 522 and 530 of the Department 5 SEC of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (division 6 E of Public Law 110-161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 2074) shall 7 apply with respect to funds made available in this Act in 8 the same manner as such sections applied to funds made 9 available in that Act. 10 S . 511. (a) None of the funds made available in 11 EC this Act may be used in contravention of the applicable 12 provisions of the Buy American Act. 13 (b) For purposes of subsection (a), the term ''Buy 14 American Act'' means chapter 83 of title 41, United 15 States Code. 16 S . 512. None of the funds made available in this 17 EC Act may be used to amend the oath of allegiance required 18 by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 19 (8 U.S.C. 1448). 20 S . 513. (a) None of the funds provided or other-21 EC wise made available by this Act may be made available 22 to carry out section 872 of the Homeland Security Act 23 of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 452) unless explicitly authorized by the 24 Congress after the date of enactment of this Act. 25

(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the use of the 1 authorities provided by such section 872-- 2 (1) to allocate or reallocate the functions of the 3 Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of 4 Mass Destruction Office to other offices and organi-5 zational units within the Department consistent with 6 the ''Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction'' 7 table in the explanatory statement described in sec-8 tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 9 consolidated Act); or 10 (2) to allocate or reallocate any other functions 11 of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Of-12 fice to other offices and organizational units within 13 the Department consistent with the ''Countering 14 Weapons of Mass Destruction'' table in the explana-15 tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 16 preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 17 (c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary 18 may transfer funds made available in prior appropriations 19 Acts to the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Of-20 fice between any appropriations available to the Depart-21 ment as necessary to carry out the purposes described in 22 subsection (b). 23

. 514. None of the funds made available in this 1SEC Act may be used for planning, testing, piloting, or devel-2 oping a national identification card. 3 S. 515. Any official that is required by this Act 4EC to report or to certify to the Committees on Appropria-5 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate may 6 not delegate such authority to perform that act unless spe-7 cifically authorized herein. 8 S. 516. None of the funds made available in this 9EC Act may be used for first-class travel by the employees 10 of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 11 301-10.122 through 301-10.124 of title 41, Code of Fed-12 eral Regulations. 13 S. 517. None of the funds made available in this 14EC Act may be used to employ workers described in section 15 274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 16 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 17 S. 518. Notwithstanding any other provision of 18EC this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 19 made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 20 incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 21 judged to be below satisfactory performance or perform-22 ance that does not meet the basic requirements of a con-23 tract. 24

. 519. (a) None of the funds made available in 1SEC this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 2 network unless such network blocks the viewing, 3 downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 4 (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 5 funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, territorial, 6 or local law enforcement agency or any other entity car-7 rying out criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudica-8 tion activities. 9 S. 520. None of the funds made available in this 10EC Act may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to 11 facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-12 vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-13 pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless 14 law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-15 ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 16 S. 521. (a) None of the funds made available in 17EC this Act may be used to pay for the travel to or attendance 18 of more than 50 employees of a single component of the 19 Department of Homeland Security, who are stationed in 20 the United States, at a single international conference un-21 less the Secretary of Homeland Security, or a designee, 22 determines that such attendance is in the national interest 23 and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 24 House of Representatives and the Senate within at least 25

10 days of that determination and the basis for that deter-1 mination. 2 (b) For purposes of this section the term ''inter-3 national conference'' shall mean a conference occurring 4 outside of the United States attended by representatives 5 of the United States Government and of foreign govern-6 ments, international organizations, or nongovernmental 7 organizations. 8 (c) The total cost to the Department of Homeland 9 Security of any such conference shall not exceed $500,000. 10 (d) Employees who attend a conference virtually 11 without travel away from their permanent duty station 12 within the United States shall not be counted for purposes 13 of this section, and the prohibition contained in this sec-14 tion shall not apply to payments for the costs of attend-15 ance for such employees. 16 . 522. None of the funds made available in this 17 SEC Act may be used to reimburse any Federal department 18 or agency for its participation in a National Special Secu-19 rity Event. 20 S . 523. (a) None of the funds made available to 21 EC the Department of Homeland Security by this or any other 22 Act may be obligated for the implementation of any struc-23 tural pay reform or the introduction of any new position 24 classification that will affect more than 100 full-time posi-25

tions or costs more than $5,000,000 in a single year be-1 fore the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date 2 on which the Secretary of Homeland Security submits to 3 Congress a notification that includes-- 4 (1) the number of full-time positions affected by 5 such change; 6 (2) funding required for such change for the 7 current fiscal year and through the Future Years 8 Homeland Security Program; 9 (3) justification for such change; and 10 (4) for a structural pay reform, an analysis of 11 compensation alternatives to such change that were 12 considered by the Department. 13 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to such change if-- 14 (1) it was proposed in the President's budget 15 proposal for the fiscal year funded by this Act; and 16 (2) funds for such change have not been explic-17 itly denied or restricted in this Act. 18 S . 524. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-19 EC able in this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 20 post on the public website of that agency any report re-21 quired to be submitted by the Committees on Appropria-22 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate in 23 this Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency 24 that it shall serve the national interest. 25

(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if-- 1 (1) the public posting of the report com-2 promises homeland or national security; or 3 (2) the report contains proprietary information. 4 (c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 5 do so only after such report has been made available to 6 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-7 resentatives and the Senate for not less than 45 days ex-8 cept as otherwise specified in law. 9 (d) If the requirements of this section are not met, 10 the reprogramming and transfer authority provided in sec-11 tion 503 of this Act shall be suspended until the require-12 ments of subsection (a) are met. 13 . 525. (a) Funding provided in this Act for ''Op-14SEC erations and Support'' may be used for minor procure-15 ment, construction, and improvements. 16 (b) For purposes of subsection (a), ''minor'' refers 17 to end items with a unit cost of $250,000 or less for per-18 sonal property, and $4,000,000 or less for real property. 19 S . 526. The authority provided by section 532 of 20EC the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 21 Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141) regarding primary and 22 secondary schooling of dependents shall continue in effect 23 during fiscal year 2026. 24

S . 527. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 1EC none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 2 to place restraints on a woman in the custody of the De-3 partment of Homeland Security (including during trans-4 port, in a detention facility, or at an outside medical facil-5 ity) who is pregnant or in post-delivery recuperation. 6 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 7 pregnant woman if-- 8 (1) an appropriate official of the Department of 9 Homeland Security makes an individualized deter-10 mination that the woman-- 11 (A) is a serious flight risk, and such risk 12 cannot be prevented by other means; or 13 (B) poses an immediate and serious threat 14 to harm herself or others that cannot be pre-15 vented by other means; or 16 (2) a medical professional responsible for the 17 care of the pregnant woman determines that the use 18 of therapeutic restraints is appropriate for the med-19 ical safety of the woman. 20 (c) If a pregnant woman is restrained pursuant to 21 subsection (b), only the safest and least restrictive re-22 straints, as determined by the appropriate medical profes-23 sional treating the woman, may be used. In no case may 24 restraints be used on a woman who is in active labor or 25

delivery, and in no case may a pregnant woman be re-1 strained in a face-down position with four-point restraints, 2 on her back, or in a restraint belt that constricts the area 3 of the pregnancy. A pregnant woman who is immobilized 4 by restraints shall be positioned, to the maximum extent 5 feasible, on her left side. 6 . 528. (a) None of the funds made available by 7 SEC this Act may be used to destroy any document, recording, 8 or other record pertaining to any-- 9 (1) death of; 10 (2) potential sexual assault or abuse per-11 petrated against; or 12 (3) allegation of abuse, criminal activity, or dis-13 ruption committed by an individual held in the cus-14 tody of the Department of Homeland Security. 15 (b) The records referred to in subsection (a) shall be 16 made available, in accordance with applicable laws and 17 regulations, and Federal rules governing disclosure in liti-18 gation, to an individual who has been charged with a 19 crime, been placed into segregation, or otherwise punished 20 as a result of an allegation described in paragraph (3), 21 upon the request of such individual. 22 S . 529. Section 519 of division F of Public Law 23 EC 114-113, regarding a prohibition on funding for any posi-24 tion designated as a Principal Federal Official, shall apply 25

with respect to any Federal funds in the same manner 1 as such section applied to funds made available in that 2 Act. 3 S . 530. (a) Not later than 10 days after the date 4 EC on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is 5 submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 6 31, United States Code, the Under Secretary for Manage-7 ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Commit-8 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 9 and the Senate a report on the unfunded priorities, for 10 the Department of Homeland Security and separately for 11 each departmental component, for which discretionary 12 funding would be classified as budget function 050. 13 (b) Each report under this section shall specify, for 14 each such unfunded priority-- 15 (1) a summary description, including the objec-16 tives to be achieved if such priority is funded 17 (whether in whole or in part); 18 (2) the description, including the objectives to 19 be achieved if such priority is funded (whether in 20 whole or in part); 21 (3) account information, including the following 22 (as applicable): 23 (A) appropriation account; and 24

(B) program, project, or activity name; 1 and 2 (4) the additional number of full-time or part- 3 time positions to be funded as part of such priority. 4 (c) In this section, the term ''unfunded priority'', in 5 the case of a fiscal year, means a requirement that-- 6 (1) is not funded in the budget referred to in 7 subsection (a); 8 (2) is necessary to fulfill a requirement associ-9 ated with an operational or contingency plan for the 10 Department; and 11 (3) would have been recommended for funding 12 through the budget referred to in subsection (a) if-- 13 (A) additional resources had been available 14 for the budget to fund the requirement; 15 (B) the requirement has emerged since the 16 budget was formulated; or 17 (C) the requirement is necessary to sustain 18 prior-year investments. 19 S. 531. (a) Not later than 10 days after a deter-20EC mination is made by the President to evaluate and initiate 21 protection under any authority for a former or retired 22 Government official or employee, or for an individual who, 23 during the duration of the directed protection, will become 24 a former or retired Government official or employee (re-25

ferred to in this section as a ''covered individual''), the 1 Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a notifica-2 tion to congressional leadership and the Committees on 3 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 4 Senate, the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 5 Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Home-6 land Security of the House of Representatives, the Com-7 mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 8 of the Senate, and the Committee on Oversight and Re-9 form of the House of Representatives (referred to in this 10 section as the ''appropriate congressional committees''). 11 (b) Such notification may be submitted in classified 12 form, if necessary, and in consultation with the Director 13 of National Intelligence or the Director of the Federal Bu-14 reau of Investigation, as appropriate, and shall include the 15 threat assessment, scope of the protection, and the antici-16 pated cost and duration of such protection. 17 (c) Not later than 15 days before extending, or 30 18 days before terminating, protection for a covered indi-19 vidual, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 20 a notification regarding the extension or termination and 21 any change to the threat assessment to the congressional 22 leadership and the appropriate congressional committees. 23 (d) Not later than 45 days after the date of enact-24 ment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter, the Secretary 25

shall submit a report to the congressional leadership and 1 the appropriate congressional committees, which may be 2 submitted in classified form, if necessary, detailing each 3 covered individual, and the scope and associated cost of 4 protection. 5 S . 532. (a) None of the funds provided to the De-6 EC partment of Homeland Security in this or any prior Act 7 may be used by an agency to submit an initial project pro-8 posal to the Technology Modernization Fund (as author-9 ized by section 1078 of subtitle G of title X of the National 10 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public 11 Law 115-91)) unless, concurrent with the submission of 12 an initial project proposal to the Technology Moderniza-13 tion Board, the head of the agency-- 14 (1) notifies the Committees on Appropriations 15 of the House of Representatives and the Senate of 16 the proposed submission of the project proposal; 17 (2) submits to the Committees on Appropria-18 tions a copy of the project proposal; and 19 (3) provides a detailed analysis of how the pro-20 posed project funding would supplement or supplant 21 funding requested as part of the Department's most 22 recent budget submission. 23 (b) None of the funds provided to the Department 24 of Homeland Security by the Technology Modernization 25

Fund shall be available for obligation until 15 days after 1 a report on such funds has been transmitted to the Com-2 mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 3 and the Senate. 4 (c) The report described in subsection (b) shall in-5 clude-- 6 (1) the full project proposal submitted to and 7 approved by the Fund's Technology Modernization 8 Board; 9 (2) the finalized interagency agreement between 10 the Department and the Fund including the 11 project's deliverables and repayment terms, as appli-12 cable; 13 (3) a detailed analysis of how the project will 14 supplement or supplant existing funding available to 15 the Department for similar activities; 16 (4) a plan for how the Department will repay 17 the Fund, including specific planned funding 18 sources, as applicable; and 19 (5) other information as determined by the Sec-20 retary. 21 S . 533. Within 60 days of any budget submission 22 EC for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 23 2027 that assumes revenues or proposes a reduction from 24 the previous year based on user fees proposals that have 25

not been enacted into law prior to the submission of the 1 budget, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide 2 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-3 resentatives and the Senate specific reductions in proposed 4 discretionary budget authority commensurate with the 5 revenues assumed in such proposals in the event that they 6 are not enacted prior to October 1, 2026. 7 . 534. None of the funds made available by this 8 SEC Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 9 Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 10 ratification for the Treaty. 11 S . 535. No Federal funds made available to the 12 EC Department of Homeland Security may be used to enter 13 into a procurement contract, memorandum of under-14 standing, or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant 15 to, or provide a loan or guarantee to, any entity identified 16 under section 1260H of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 17 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 18 (Public Law 116-283) or any subsidiary of such entity. 19 S . 536. None of the funds appropriated or other-20 EC wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 21 to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 22 or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 23 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who-- 24

(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 1 of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 2 (2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 3 at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 4 Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 5 S. 537. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 6EC shall, on a monthly basis beginning immediately after the 7 date of enactment of this Act, develop estimates of the 8 number of migrants anticipated to arrive at the southwest 9 border of the United States. 10 (b) The Secretary shall ensure that, at a minimum, 11 the estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a)-- 12 (1) cover the current fiscal year and the fol-13 lowing fiscal year; 14 (2) include a breakout by demographic, to in-15 clude single adults, family units, and unaccompanied 16 children; 17 (3) undergo an independent validation and 18 verification review; 19 (4) are used to inform policy planning and 20 budgeting processes within the Department of 21 Homeland Security; and 22 (5) are included in the budget materials sub-23 mitted to Congress for each fiscal year beginning 24

after the date of enactment of this Act and in sup-1 port of-- 2 (A) the President's annual budget request 3 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 4 States Code; 5 (B) any supplemental funding request sub-6 mitted to Congress; 7 (C) any reprogramming and transfer noti-8 fication pursuant to section 503 of this Act; 9 and 10 (D) such budget materials shall include-- 11 (i) the most recent monthly estimates 12 developed pursuant to subsection (a); 13 (ii) a description and quantification of 14 the estimates used to justify funding re-15 quests for Department programs related to 16 border security, immigration enforcement, 17 and immigration services; 18 (iii) a description and quantification 19 of the anticipated workload and require-20 ments resulting from such estimates; and 21 (iv) a confirmation as to whether the 22 budget requests for impacted agencies were 23 developed using the same estimates. 24

(c) The Secretary shall share the monthly estimates 1 developed pursuant to subsection (a) with the Secretary 2 of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the 3 Secretary of State, and the Committees on Appropriations 4 of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 5 (d) If the monthly estimates described in subsection 6 (b) are not provided for the purposes described, the re-7 programming and transfer authority provided in section 8 503 of this Act shall be suspended until such time as the 9 required estimates are provided to the Committees on Ap-10 propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-11 ate. 12 S . 538. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 13EC shall, on a monthly basis beginning immediately after the 14 date of enactment of this Act, develop estimates of the 15 number of individuals anticipated to be detained in and 16 removed from the United States. 17 (b) The Secretary shall ensure that, at a minimum, 18 the estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a)-- 19 (1) cover the current fiscal year and the fol-20 lowing fiscal year; 21 (2) include a breakout by demographics, to in-22 clude single adults and family units; 23 (3) undergo an independent validation and 24 verification review; 25

(4) are used to inform policy planning and 1 budgeting processes within the Department of 2 Homeland Security; and 3 (5) are included in the budget materials sub-4 mitted to Congress for each fiscal year beginning 5 after the date of enactment of this Act and in sup-6 port of-- 7 (A) the President's annual budget request 8 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 9 States Code; 10 (B) any supplemental funding request sub-11 mitted to Congress; 12 (C) any reprogramming and transfer noti-13 fication pursuant to section 503 of this Act; 14 and 15 (D) such budget materials shall include-- 16 (i) the most recent monthly estimates 17 developed pursuant to subsection (a); 18 (ii) a description and quantification of 19 the estimates used to justify funding re-20 quests for Department programs related to 21 border security, immigration enforcement, 22 and immigration services; 23

(iii) a description and quantification 1 of the anticipated workload and require-2 ments resulting from such estimates; and 3 (iv) a confirmation as to whether the 4 budget requests for impacted agencies were 5 developed using the same estimates. 6 (c) The Secretary shall share the monthly estimates 7 developed pursuant to subsection (a) with the Attorney 8 General, the Secretary of State, and the Committees on 9 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 10 Senate. 11 (d) If the monthly estimates described in subsection 12 (b) are not provided for the purposes described, the re-13 programming and transfer authority provided in section 14 503 of this Act shall be suspended until such time as the 15 required estimates are provided to the Committees on Ap-16 propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-17 ate. 18 S. 539. (a) Prior to the Secretary of Homeland Se-19EC curity requesting assistance from the Department of De-20 fense for border security operations, the Secretary shall 21 ensure that an alternatives analysis and cost-benefit anal-22 ysis is conducted before such request is made, which shall 23 include an examination of obtaining such support through 24 other means. 25

(b) Not later than 30 days after the date on which 1 a request for assistance is made, the Secretary of Home-2 land Security shall submit to the Committees on Appro-3 priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 4 a report detailing the types of support requested, the alter-5 natives analysis and cost-benefit analysis described in sub-6 section (a), and the operational impact to Department of 7 Homeland Security operations of any Department of De-8 fense border security support requested by the Secretary. 9 (c) Not later than 30 days after the date on which 10 a request made for assistance is granted and quarterly 11 thereafter through the duration of such assistance, the 12 Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Com-13 mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 14 and the Senate, a report detailing the assistance provided 15 and the operational impacts to border security operations. 16 . 540. Funds made available in this Act or any 17SEC other Act for Operations and Support may be used for 18 the necessary expenses of providing an employee emer-19 gency back-up care program. 20 S . 541. (a) Not less than $5,000,000 made avail-21EC able in this Act shall be transferred to ''U.S. Immigration 22 and Customs Enforcement--Operations and Support'' to 23 support and conduct necessary operations of the Blue 24 Campaign for fiscal year 2026. 25

(b) Prior to the obligation of funds made available 1 by subsection (a), notification shall be submitted to the 2 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-3 atives and the Senate. 4 S . 542. (a) If the reporting requirement set forth 5EC in paragraph (2) under the heading ''Federal Emergency 6 Management Agency--Disaster Relief Fund'' in the De-7 partment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 8 (Public Law 114-4), as applied in this fiscal year by sec-9 tion 306 of this Act, is not submitted to the Committees 10 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 11 Senate and published on the Agency's website not later 12 than the fifth business day of the applicable month, the 13 amount made available for ''Office of the Secretary and 14 Executive Management--Operations and Support--Man-15 agement and Oversight'' shall be reduced by $100,000 for 16 each day such report is not submitted and published on 17 the Agency's website. 18 (b) During any period in which the total number of 19 requests for reimbursement for a covered expense for indi-20 vidual assistance or public assistance related to emergency 21 (42 U.S.C. 5122(1)) or major disaster (42 U.S.C. 22 5122(2)) declarations under the Robert T. Stafford Dis-23 aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 24 5121 et seq.) that the Department of Homeland Security 25

has been considering under final review for greater than 1 60 days exceeds 500, the amount made available for ''Of-2 fice of the Secretary and Executive Management--Oper-3 ations and Support--Management and Oversight'' shall be 4 reduced by $100,000 for each day during such period on 5 which the cumulative total of requests over 60 days in 6 final review exceeds 500. 7 (c) Subsection (b) shall not apply if the balance of 8 funding for the Disaster Relief Fund is sufficient only for 9 the purpose of obligating funds for activities determined 10 to be lifesaving or life-sustaining. 11 . 543. Section 16005(c) of title VI of division B 12 SEC of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act 13 (Public Law 116-136) shall be applied as if the language 14 read as follows: ''Subsection (a) shall apply until Sep-15 tember 30, 2026.''. 16 S . 544. The levels for appropriations accounts 17 EC specified for classified programs in this Act shall conform 18 to the direction included in the classified annex accom-19 panying this Act and shall be implemented in a manner 20 consistent with section 545. 21 S . 545. Upon a determination by the Director of 22 EC National Intelligence that such action is necessary and in 23 the national interest, the Director may, with the approval 24 of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director 25

of the Office of Management and Budget, transfer 1 amounts for the National Intelligence Program consistent 2 with the percentage caps specified in section 503(c): Pro-3

vided, That such authority to transfer may not be used 4

unless for higher priority items, based on unforeseen intel-5 ligence requirements, than those for which originally ap-6 propriated and in no case where the item for which funds 7 are requested has been denied by the Congress: Provided 8

further, That a request for any transfer of funds using 9

authority provided in this section shall be made consistent 10 with the requirements of section 503(d)(1). 11 S . 546. Within seven days of the date of enactment 12 EC of this Act, and quarterly thereafter, the Department shall 13 submit to the Committees on Appropriation of the House 14 of Representatives and the Senate-- 15 (1) an obligation plan by program, project, or 16 activity for each component receiving funds from 17 Public Law 119-21; 18 (2) estimated fee collections for each component 19 collecting new or enhanced fees authorized by Public 20 Law 119-21, delineated by collections that a compo-21 nent will retain and collections that a component will 22 remit to other agencies or the Treasury; and 23 (3) an obligation plan by program, project, or 24 activity for fee collections identified in paragraph (2) 25

as being retained by a component within the Depart-1 ment. 2 S . 547. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-3EC erwise made available to the Department of Homeland Se-4 curity by this Act may be used to prevent any of the fol-5 lowing persons from entering, for the purpose of con-6 ducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the De-7 partment of Homeland Security used to detain or other-8 wise house aliens, or to make any temporary modification 9 at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed 10 by a visiting Member of Congress or such designated em-11 ployee, compared to what would be observed in the absence 12 of such modification: 13 (1) A Member of Congress. 14 (2) An employee of the United States House of 15 Representatives or the United States Senate des-16 ignated by such a Member for the purposes of this 17 section. 18 (b) Nothing in this section may be construed to re-19 quire a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the 20 intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a) for 21 the purpose of conducting oversight. 22 (c) With respect to individuals described in subsection 23 (a)(2), the Department of Homeland Security may require 24

that a request be made at least 24 hours in advance of 1 an intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a). 2 . 548. In addition to amounts otherwise made 3 SEC available for such purposes, there is appropriated 4 $30,000,000, for an additional amount for ''The Judici-5 ary--Supreme Court of the United States--Salaries and 6 Expenses'', to remain available until September 30, 2028: 7

Provided, That amounts made available pursuant to this 8

section shall be subject to the same authorities and condi-9 tions as if such amounts were provided under the heading 10 ''The Judiciary--Supreme Court of the United States-- 11 Salaries and Expenses'' in the Financial Services and 12 General Government Appropriations Act, 2026. 13 S . 549. There is appropriated $140,000,000 for an 14 EC additional amount for ''Department of Transportation- 15 Federal Aviation Administration-Operations'' for air traf-16 fic organization activities, to remain available until Sep-17 tember 30, 2027: Provided, That the Administrator of the 18 Federal Aviation Administration shall only use such 19 amounts to provide a rate of pay increase for calendar 20 year 2026 of 3.8 percent, for air traffic controllers, as de-21 fined by section 2109(1)(A) of title 5, United States Code, 22 and air traffic controller supervisors or managers who are 23 not covered under such section, but who manage air traf-24 fic: Provided further, That such adjustment shall be imple-25

mented for all such employees only to the extent the Ad-1 ministrator determines, in his sole discretion, that im-2 provements in workforce scheduling, staffing utilization, 3 or other operational efficiencies are achieved that con-4 tribute to addressing workforce shortfalls and enhancing 5 aviation safety: Provided further, That if the Adminis-6 trator makes such determination, then such adjustment 7 shall be effective the first pay period beginning after Janu-8 ary 1, 2026: Provided further, That amounts provided by 9 this section shall be subject to the same authorities and 10 conditions as if such amounts were provided by the De-11 partment of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2026. 12 S . 550. (a) Of the total amount provided under the 13 EC heading ''Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agen-14 cy--Operations and Support'', $99,750,000 shall be de-15 rived by transfer from the unobligated balances of 16 amounts previously appropriated under the heading ''Cy-17 bersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency--Cyberse-18 curity Response and Recovery Fund'' in division J of the 19 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117- 20 58). 21 (b) Amounts derived by transfer pursuant to this sec-22 tion shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in 23 section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5. 24

(RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS)

S . 551. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-2EC ment of Homeland Security, the following funds are here-3 by rescinded from the following accounts and programs 4 in the specified amounts: Provided, That no amounts may 5 be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the 6 Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a con-7 current resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 8 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 9 (1) $73,327,000 from the unobligated balances 10 available in the ''Management Directorate--Procure-11 ment, Construction, and Improvements'' account (70 12 22/26 0406). 13 (2) $6,713,000 from the unobligated balances 14 available in the ''U.S. Customs and Border Protec-15 tion--Operations and Support'' account (70 X 16 0530). 17 (3) $387,000 from the unobligated balances 18 available in the ''U.S. Customs and Border Protec-19 tion--Automation Modernization'' account (70 X 20 0531). 21 (4) $917,000 from the unobligated balances 22 available in the ''U.S. Customs and Border Protec-23 tion--Procurement, Construction, and Improve-24 ments'' account (70 X 0532). 25

(5) $6,336,000 from the unobligated balances 1 available in the ''U.S. Customs and Border Protec-2 tion--Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and 3 Technology'' account (70 X 0533). 4 (6) $1,413,000 from the unobligated balances 5 available in the ''U.S. Customs and Border Protec-6 tion--Air and Marine Interdiction, Operations, 7 Maintenance, and Procurement'' account (70 X 8 0544). 9 (7) $172,000 from the unobligated balances 10 available in the ''Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 11 Security Agency--Infrastructure Protection and In-12 frastructure Security'' account (70 X 0565). 13 S. 552. The following unobligated balances made 14EC available to the Department of Homeland Security pursu-15 ant to section 505 of the Department of Homeland Secu-16 rity Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47), as 17 incorporated by section 1101 of the Full-Year Continuing 18 Appropriations Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-4), are re-19 scinded: 20 (1) $2,072,147 from ''Office of the Secretary 21 and Executive Management--Operations and Sup-22 port''. 23 (2) $5,487,177 from ''Management Direc-24 torate--Operations and Support''. 25

(3) $4,493,650 from ''Intelligence, Analysis, 1 and Situational Awareness--Operations and Sup-2 port''. 3 (4) $88,190 from ''Office of the Inspector Gen-4 eral--Operations and Support''. 5 (5) $1,139,096 from ''U.S. Customs and Bor-6 der Protection--Operations and Support''. 7 (6) $19,650,000 from ''Transportation Security 8 Administration--Operations and Support''. 9 (7) $703,390 from ''United States Secret Serv-10 ice--Operations and Support''. 11 (8) $52,349,050 from ''Cybersecurity and In-12 frastructure Security Agency--Operations and Sup-13 port''. 14 (9) $18,525,975 from ''Federal Emergency 15 Management Agency--Operations and Support''. 16 (10) $120,860 from ''U.S. Citizenship and Im-17 migration Services--Operations and Support''. 18 (11) $178,340 from ''Science and Technology 19 Directorate--Operations and Support''. 20 (12) $6,937,020 from ''Countering Weapons of 21 Mass Destruction Office--Operations and Support''. 22 S. 553. Of the unobligated balances in the ''De-23EC partment of Homeland Security Nonrecurring Expenses 24

Fund'' established in section 538 of division F of Public 1 Law 117-103, $2,362,000 are hereby rescinded. 2 This division may be cited as the ''Department of 3 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026''. 4

DIVISION B--FURTHER ADDITIONAL 5 CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026 6

. 1001. For the purposes of the Continuing Ap-7SEC propriations Act, 2026 (division A of Public Law 119-37), 8 the time covered by such division shall be considered to 9 include the period which began on or about February 13, 10 2026, during which there occurred a lapse in appropria-11 tions. 12 S. 1002. Amounts made available in the Con-13EC tinuing Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of Public 14 Law 119-37) and by the Department of Homeland Secu-15 rity Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of this Act) for 16 personnel pay, allowances, and benefits in each depart-17 ment and agency shall be available for payments pursuant 18 to subsection (c) of section 1341 of title 31, United States 19 Code and such payments shall be made. 20 S. 1003. All obligations incurred and in anticipa-21EC tion of the appropriations made and authority granted by 22 the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of 23 Public Law 119-37) and by division A of this Act for the 24 purposes of maintaining the essential level of activity to 25

protect life and property and bringing about orderly termi-1 nation of Government function, and for purposes as other-2 wise authorized by law, are hereby ratified and approved 3 if otherwise in accord with the provisions of such Act. 4 This division may be cited as the ''Further Additional 5 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026''. 6