HR 4780 · 114th Congress · Emergency Management

Department of Homeland Security Strategy for International Programs Act

Introduced 2016-03-17· Sponsored by Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
Committee
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.(2016-05-17)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Department of Homeland Security Strategy for International Programs Act This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit a comprehensive three-year strategy for international programs in which DHS personnel and resources are deployed abroad for vetting and screening persons seeking to enter the United States. The strategy shall include: specific risk-based goals for such programs; a risk-based method for determining whether to establish new international programs in new locations, given resource constraints, or expand existing international programs; alignment with the highest DHS-wide and government-wide strategic priorities of resource allocations on such programs; and a common reporting framework for the submission of reliable, comparable cost data by DHS components on overseas expenditures attributable to such programs. In developing the strategy, DHS shall consider: information on existing operations of DHS programs that includes corresponding information for each location in which each such program operates, analysis of the impact of each such international program on domestic activities of DHS components, the number of DHS personnel deployed to each loca…

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Congressional Budget Office

H.R. 4780, Department of Homeland Security Strategy for International Programs Act

May 13, 2016

As ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on March 23, 2016

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