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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4780 

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a comprehensive 

strategy for Department of Homeland Security operations abroad, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 17, 2016 

Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on Homeland Security 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop 

a comprehensive strategy for Department of Homeland 

Security operations abroad, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home5 land Security Strategy for International Programs Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

2 PROGRAMS FOR VETTING AND SCREENING 

3 PERSONS SEEKING TO ENTER THE UNITED 

4 STATES. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

6 date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Home7 land Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland 

8 Security of the House of Representatives and the Com9 mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

10 of the Senate a comprehensive three-year strategy for 

11 international programs of the Department of Homeland 

12 Security in which personnel and resources of the Depart13 ment are deployed abroad for vetting and screening of per14 sons seeking to enter the United States. 

15 (b) CONTENTS.—The strategy required under sub16 section (a) shall include, at a minimum, the following: 

17 (1) Specific Department of Homeland Security 

18 risk-based goals for international programs of the 

19 Department in which personnel and resources of the 

20 Department are deployed abroad for vetting and 

21 screening of persons seeking to enter the United 

22 States. 

23 (2) A risk-based method for determining wheth24 er to establish new international programs in new lo25 cations, given resource constraints, or expand exist26 ing international programs of the Department, in 


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1 which personnel and resources of the Department 

2 are deployed abroad for vetting and screening of 

3 persons seeking to enter the United States. 

4 (3) Alignment with the highest Department5 wide and Government-wide strategic priorities of re6 source allocations on international programs of the 

7 Department in which personnel and resources of the 

8 Department are deployed abroad for vetting and 

9 screening of persons seeking to enter the United 

10 States. 

11 (4) A common reporting framework for the sub12 mission of reliable, comparable cost data by compo13 nents of the Department on overseas expenditures 

14 attributable to international programs of the De15 partment in which personnel and resources of the 

16 Department are deployed abroad for vetting and 

17 screening of persons seeking to enter the United 

18 States. 

19 (c) CONSIDERATIONS.—In developing the strategy re20 quired under subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland 

21 Security shall consider, at a minimum, the following: 

22 (1) Information on existing operations of inter23 national programs of the Department of Homeland 

24 Security in which personnel and resources of the De25 partment are deployed abroad for vetting and 


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1 screening of persons seeking to enter the United 

2 States that includes corresponding information for 

3 each location in which each such program operates. 

4 (2) The number of Department personnel de5 ployed to each location at which an international 

6 program referred to in subparagraph (A) is in oper7 ation during the current and preceding fiscal year. 

8 (3) Analysis of the impact of each international 

9 program referred to in paragraph (1) on domestic 

10 activities of components of the Department of 

11 Homeland Security. 

12 (4) Analysis of barriers to the expansion of an 

13 international program referred to in paragraph (1). 

14 (d) FORM.—The strategy required under subsection 

15 (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form by may contain 

16 a classified annex if the Secretary of Homeland Security 

17 determines that such is appropriate. 

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