accordance with all applicable privacy laws and agency- 
specific policies regarding network content. 
(b) Funds made available under this section may not 
be used to supplant funds provided for any such system 
within an agency budget. 
(c) Not later than July 1, 2015, the heads of all Fed-
eral agencies shall submit to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
expenditure plans for necessary cybersecurity improve-
ments to address known vulnerabilities to information sys-
tems described in subsection (a). 
(d) Not later than October 1, 2015, and semiannually 
thereafter, the head of each Federal agency shall submit 
to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
a report on the execution of the expenditure plan for that 
agency required by subsection (c): Provided, That the Di-
rector of the Office of Management and Budget shall sum-
marize such execution reports and annually submit such 
summaries to Congress in conjunction with the annual 
progress report on implementation of the E-Government 
Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–347), as required by section 
3606 of title 44, United States Code. 
(e) This section shall not apply to the legislative and 
judicial branches of the Federal Government and shall 
apply to all Federal agencies within the executive branch 
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except for the Department of Defense, the Central Intel-
ligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence. 
SEC. 548. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 549. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to 
facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-
vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-
pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless 
law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-
ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 
SEC. 550. None of the funds provided in this or any 
other Act may be obligated to implement the National Pre-
paredness Grant Program or any other successor grant 
programs unless explicitly authorized by Congress. 
SEC. 551. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to provide funding for the position of 
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Public Advocate, or a successor position, within U.S. Im-
migration and Customs Enforcement. 
SEC. 552. (a) Section 559 of division F of Public Law 
113–76 is amended as follows: 
(1) Subsection (f)(2)(B) is amended by adding 
at the end: ‘‘Such transfer shall not be required for 
personal property, including furniture, fixtures, and 
equipment.’’; and 
(2) Subsection (e)(3)(b) is amended by insert-
ing after ‘‘payment of overtime’’ the following: ‘‘and 
the salaries, training and benefits of individuals em-
ployed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to 
support U.S. Customs and Border Protection offi-
cers in performing law enforcement functions at 
ports of entry, including primary and secondary 
processing of passengers’’. 
(b) Section 560(g) of division D of Public Law 113– 
6 is amended by inserting after ‘‘payment of overtime’’ 
the following: ‘‘and the salaries, training and benefits of 
individuals employed by U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection offi-
cers in performing law enforcement functions at ports of 
entry, including primary and secondary processing of pas-
sengers’’. 
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(c) The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection may modify a reimbursable fee agreement in 
effect as of the date of enactment of this Act to include 
costs specified in this section. 
SEC. 553. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay for the travel to or attendance 
of more than 50 employees of a single component of the 
Department of Homeland Security, who are stationed in 
the United States, at a single international conference un-
less the Secretary of Homeland Security, or a designee, 
determines that such attendance is in the national interest 
and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate and the House of Representatives within at least 10 
days of that determination and the basis for that deter-
mination: Provided, That for purposes of this section the 
term ‘‘international conference’’ shall mean a conference 
occurring outside of the United States attended by rep-
resentatives of the United States Government and of for-
eign governments, international organizations, or non-
governmental organizations. 
SEC. 554. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to reimburse any Federal department 
or agency for its participation in a National Special Secu-
rity Event. 
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SEC. 555. With the exception of countries with 
preclearance facilities in service prior to 2013, none of the 
funds made available in this Act may be used for new U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection air preclearance agree-
ments entering into force after February 1, 2014, un-
less— 
(1) the Secretary of Homeland Security, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of State, has certified to 
Congress that air preclearance operations at the air-
port provide a homeland or national security benefit 
to the United States; 
(2) United States passenger air carriers are not 
precluded from operating at existing preclearance lo-
cations; and 
(3) a United States passenger air carrier is op-
erating at all airports contemplated for establish-
ment of new air preclearance operations. 
SEC. 556. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used by the Administrator of 
the Transportation Security Administration to implement, 
administer, or enforce, in abrogation of the responsibility 
described in section 44903(n)(1) of title 49, United States 
Code, any requirement that airport operators provide air-
port-financed staffing to monitor exit points from the ster-
ile area of any airport at which the Transportation Secu-
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rity Administration provided such monitoring as of De-
cember 1, 2013. 
SEC. 557. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fire-
fighter Assistance Grants’’, the Secretary may grant waiv-
ers from the requirements in subsections (a)(1)(A), 
(a)(1)(B), (a)(1)(E), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section 
34 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 
(15 U.S.C. 2229a). 
SEC. 558. (a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning on the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall not— 
(1) establish, collect, or otherwise impose any 
new border crossing fee on individuals crossing the 
Southern border or the Northern border at a land 
port of entry; or 
(2) conduct any study relating to the imposition 
of a border crossing fee. 
(b) BORDER CROSSING FEE DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘border crossing fee’’ means a fee that 
every pedestrian, cyclist, and driver and passenger of a 
private motor vehicle is required to pay for the privilege 
of crossing the Southern border or the Northern border 
at a land port of entry. 
SEC. 559. The administrative law judge annuitants 
participating in the Senior Administrative Law Judge 
Program managed by the Director of the Office of Per-
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sonnel Management under section 3323 of title 5, United 
States Code, shall be available on a temporary reemploy-
ment basis to conduct arbitrations of disputes arising from 
delivery of assistance under the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency Public Assistance Program. 
SEC. 560. As authorized by section 601(b) of the 
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Im-
plementation Act (Public Law 112–42) fees collected from 
passengers arriving from Canada, Mexico, or an adjacent 
island pursuant to section 13031(a)(5) of the Consolidated 
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 
58c(a)(5)) shall be available until expended. 
SEC. 561. None of the funds appropriated by this or 
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations 
language as part of the President’s budget submission to 
the Congress of the United States for programs under the 
jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on the 
Department of Homeland Security that assumes revenues 
or reflects a reduction from the previous year due to user 
fees proposals that have not been enacted into law prior 
to the submission of the budget unless such budget sub-
mission identifies which additional spending reductions 
should occur in the event the user fees proposals are not 
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enacted prior to the date of the convening of a committee 
of conference for the fiscal year 2016 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 562. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall submit to the Congress, not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, 
beginning at the time the President’s budget proposal for 
fiscal year 2017 is submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) 
of title 31, United States Code, a comprehensive report 
on the purchase and usage of weapons, subdivided by 
weapon type. The report shall include— 
(1) the quantity of weapons in inventory at the 
end of the preceding calendar year, and the amount 
of weapons, subdivided by weapon type, included in 
the budget request for each relevant component or 
agency in the Department of Homeland Security; 
(2) a description of how such quantity and pur-
chase aligns to each component or agency’s mission 
requirements for certification, qualification, training, 
and operations; and 
(3) details on all contracting practices applied 
by the Department of Homeland Security, including 
comparative details regarding other contracting op-
tions with respect to cost and availability. 
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(b) The reports required by subsection (a) shall be 
submitted in an appropriate format in order to ensure the 
safety of law enforcement personnel. 
SEC. 563. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used for the environmental remediation of the 
Coast Guard’s LORAN support in Wildwood/Lower Town-
ship, New Jersey. 
SEC. 564. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Homeland Security by this or any other 
Act may be obligated for any structural pay reform that 
affects more than 100 full-time equivalent employee posi-
tions or costs more than $5,000,000 in a single year be-
fore the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date 
on which the Secretary of Homeland Security submits to 
Congress a notification that includes— 
(1) the number of full-time equivalent employee 
positions affected by such change; 
(2) funding required for such change for the 
current year and through the Future Years Home-
land Security Program; 
(3) justification for such change; and 
(4) an analysis of compensation alternatives to 
such change that were considered by the Depart-
ment. 
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SEC. 565. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public Web site of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives in 
this Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency 
that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report com-
promises homeland or national security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 
do so only after such report has been made available to 
the requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for 
no less than 45 days except as otherwise specified in law. 
SEC. 566. Section 605 of division E of Public Law 
110–161 (6 U.S.C. 1404) is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 567. The Administrator of the Federal Emer-
gency 
Management 
Agency 
may 
transfer 
up 
to 
$95,000,000 in unobligated balances made available for 
the appropriations account for ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency, Disaster Assistance Direct Loan Pro-
gram’’ under section 2(a) of the Community Disaster 
Loan Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–88; 119 Stat. 2061) 
or under chapter 5 of title I of division B of the Consoli-
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dated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Ap-
propriations Act, 2009 (Public Law (110–329; 122 Stat. 
3592) to the appropriations account for ‘‘Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency, Disaster Relief Fund’’. 
Amounts transferred to such account under this section 
shall be available for any authorized purpose of such ac-
count. 
SEC. 568. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, Gerardo Ismael Hernandez, a Transportation Secu-
rity Officer employed by the Transportation Security Ad-
ministration who died as the direct result of an injury sus-
tained in the line of duty on November 1, 2013, at the 
Los Angeles International Airport, shall be deemed to 
have been a public safety officer for the purposes of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Street Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3711 et seq.). 
SEC. 569. The Office of Management and Budget 
and the Department of Homeland Security shall ensure 
the congressional budget justifications accompanying the 
President’s budget proposal for the Department of Home-
land Security, submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) of 
title 31, United States Code, include estimates of the num-
ber of unaccompanied alien children anticipated to be ap-
prehended in the budget year and the number of agent 
or officer hours required to process, manage, and care for 
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such children: Provided, That such materials shall also in-
clude estimates of all other associated costs for each rel-
evant Departmental component, including but not limited 
to personnel; equipment; supplies; facilities; managerial, 
technical, and advisory services; medical treatment; and 
all costs associated with transporting such children from 
one Departmental component to another or from a De-
partmental component to another Federal agency. 
SEC. 570. Notwithstanding section 404 or 420 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c and 5187), until September 
30, 2015, the President may provide hazard mitigation as-
sistance in accordance with such section 404 in any area 
in which assistance was provided under such section 420. 
SEC. 571. That without regard to the limitation as 
to time and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, the 
Secretary may propose to reprogram within and transfer 
funds into ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Salaries 
and Expenses’’ and ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement, Salaries and Expenses’’ as necessary to ensure 
the care and transportation of unaccompanied alien chil-
dren. 
SEC. 572. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, grants awarded to States along the Southwest Border 
of the United States under sections 2003 or 2004 of the 
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Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604 and 605) 
using funds provided under the heading ‘‘Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency, State and Local Programs’’ 
in division F of Public Law 113–76 or division D of Public 
Law 113–6 may be used by recipients or sub-recipients 
for costs, or reimbursement of costs, related to providing 
humanitarian relief to unaccompanied alien children and 
alien adults accompanied by an alien minor where they 
are encountered after entering the United States, provided 
that such costs were incurred during the award period of 
performance. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 573. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, the following funds are here-
by rescinded from the following accounts and programs 
in the specified amounts: Provided, That no amounts may 
be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a con-
current resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 
99–177): 
(1) $5,000,000 from unobligated prior year bal-
ances from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 
Border Security, Fencing, Infrastructure, and Tech-
nology’’; 
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(2) $8,000,000 from Public Law 113–76 under 
the heading ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 
Air and Marine Operations’’ in division F of such 
Act; 
(3) $10,000,000 from unobligated prior year 
balances from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion, Construction and Facilities Management’’; 
(4) $15,300,000 from ‘‘Transportation Security 
Administration, 
Aviation 
Security’’ 
account 
70x0550; 
(5) $187,000,000 from Public Law 113–76 
under the heading ‘‘Transportation Security Admin-
istration, Aviation Security’’; 
(6) $2,550,000 from Public Law 112–10 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construc-
tion, and Improvements’’; 
(7) $12,095,000 from Public Law 112–74 
under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Con-
struction, and Improvements’’; 
(8) $16,349,000 from Public Law 113–6 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construc-
tion, and Improvements’’; 
(9) $30,643,000 from Public Law 113–76 
under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Con-
struction, and Improvements’’; 
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(10) $24,000,000 from ‘‘Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, National Predisaster Mitiga-
tion Fund’’ account 70x0716; and 
(11) $16,627,000 from ‘‘Science and Tech-
nology, Research, Development, Acquisition, and Op-
erations’’ account 70x0800. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 574. From the unobligated balances made avail-
able in the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund 
established by section 9703 of title 31, United States 
Code, (added by section 638 of Public Law 102–393), 
$175,000,000 shall be rescinded. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 575. Of the funds transferred to the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security when it was created in 2003, 
the following funds are hereby rescinded from the fol-
lowing accounts and programs in the specified amounts: 
(1) $1,317,018 from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection, Salaries and Expenses’’; 
(2) $57,998 from ‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, 
Construction, and Improvements’’; 
(3) $17,597 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency, Office of Domestic Preparedness’’; 
and 
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(4) $82,926 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Manage-
ment 
Agency, 
National 
Predisaster 
Mitigation 
Fund’’. 
SEC. 576. The following unobligated balances made 
available to the Department of Homeland Security pursu-
ant to section 505 of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113–76) are 
rescinded: 
(1) $463,404 from ‘‘Office of the Secretary and 
Executive Management’’; 
(2) $47,023 from ‘‘Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Management’’; 
(3) $29,852 from ‘‘Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer’’; 
(4) $16,346 from ‘‘Office of the Chief Informa-
tion Officer’’; 
(5) $816,384 from ‘‘Analysis and Operations’’; 
(6) $158,931 from ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’; 
(7) $635,153 from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, Salaries and Expenses’’; 
(8) $65,195 from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, Automation Modernization’’; 
(9) $96,177 from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, Air and Marine Operations’’; 
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(10) $2,368,902 from ‘‘U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement, Salaries and Expenses’’; 
(11) $600,000 from ‘‘Transportation Security 
Administration, Federal Air Marshals’’; 
(12) $3,096,521 from ‘‘Coast Guard, Operating 
Expenses’’; 
(13) $208,654 from ‘‘Coast Guard, Reserve 
Training’’; 
(14) $1,722,319 from ‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisi-
tion, Construction, and Improvements’’; 
(15) $1,256,900 from ‘‘United States Secret 
Service, Salaries and Expenses’’; 
(16) $107,432 from ‘‘National Protection and 
Programs Directorate, Management and Administra-
tion’’; 
(17) $679,212 from ‘‘National Protection and 
Programs Directorate, Infrastructure Protection and 
Information Security’’; 
(18) $26,169 from ‘‘Office of Biometric Iden-
tity Management’’; 
(19) $37,201 from ‘‘Office of Health Affairs’’; 
(20) $818,184 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency, Salaries and Expenses’’; 
(21) $447,280 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency, State and Local Programs’’; 
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SEC. 578. The explanatory statement regarding this 
Act, printed in the House of Representatives section of 
the Congressional Record, on or about January 13, 2015, 
by the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House, shall have the same effect with respect to the 
allocation of funds and implementation of this Act as if 
it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of 
conference. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Appropriations Act, 2015’’. 
Æ 
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