through September 30, 2019, in the account and for the 
purposes for which the appropriations were provided: Pro-
vided, That prior to the obligation of such funds, a notifi-
cation shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives in 
accordance with section 503. 
SEC. 506. Funds made available by this Act for intel-
ligence activities are deemed to be specifically authorized 
by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal 
year 2018 until the enactment of an Act authorizing intel-
ligence activities for fiscal year 2018. 
SEC. 507. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 
or the designee of the Secretary, shall notify the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives at least 3 full business days in advance 
of— 
(1) making or awarding a grant allocation, 
grant, contract, other transaction agreement, or task 
or delivery order on a Department of Homeland Se-
curity multiple award contract, or to issue a letter 
of intent totaling in excess of $1,000,000; 
(2) awarding a task or delivery order requiring 
an obligation of funds in an amount greater than 
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$10,000,000 from multi-year Department of Home-
land Security funds; 
(3) making a sole-source grant award; or 
(4) announcing publicly the intention to make 
or award items under paragraph (1), (2), or (3), in-
cluding a contract covered by the Federal Acquisi-
tion Regulation. 
(b) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 
that compliance with this section would pose a substantial 
risk to human life, health, or safety, an award may be 
made without notification, and the Secretary shall notify 
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives not later than 5 full business 
days after such an award is made or letter issued. 
(c) A notification under this section— 
(1) may not involve funds that are not available 
for obligation; and 
(2) shall include the amount of the award; the 
fiscal year for which the funds for the award were 
appropriated; the type of contract; and the account 
from which the funds are being drawn. 
SEC. 508. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any ad-
ditional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing 
locations, to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal 
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law enforcement training without advance notification to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives, except that the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Centers is authorized to obtain the 
temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, 
or other agreement for training that cannot be accommo-
dated in existing Center facilities. 
SEC. 509. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for expenses 
for any construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition 
project for which a prospectus otherwise required under 
chapter 33 of title 40, United States Code, has not been 
approved, except that necessary funds may be expended 
for each project for required expenses for the development 
of a proposed prospectus. 
SEC. 510. Sections 520, 522, and 530 of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (di-
vision E of Public Law 110–161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 
2074) shall apply with respect to funds made available in 
this Act in the same manner as such sections applied to 
funds made available in that Act. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in contravention of the applicable provi-
sions of the Buy American Act: Provided, That for pur-
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poses of the preceding sentence, the term ‘‘Buy American 
Act’’ means chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to amend the oath of allegiance required 
by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1448). 
SEC. 513. Section 519 of division F of Public Law 
114–113, regarding a prohibition on funding for any posi-
tion designated as a Principal Federal Official, shall apply 
with respect to funds made available in this Act in the 
same manner as such section applied to funds made avail-
able in that Act. 
SEC. 514. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for planning, testing, piloting, or devel-
oping a national identification card. 
SEC. 515. Any official that is required by this Act 
to report or to certify to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives may 
not delegate such authority to perform that act unless spe-
cifically authorized herein. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 
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(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class travel by the employees 
of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 
301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations. 
SEC. 518. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to employ workers described in section 
274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 
SEC. 519. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 
incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 
judged to be below satisfactory performance or perform-
ance that does not meet the basic requirements of a con-
tract. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used by the De-
partment of Homeland Security to enter into any Federal 
contract unless such contract is entered into in accordance 
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with the requirements of subtitle I of title 41, United 
States Code, or chapter 137 of title 10, United States 
Code, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless such 
contract is otherwise authorized by statute to be entered 
into without regard to the above referenced statutes. 
SEC. 521. (a) For an additional amount for financial 
systems modernization, $42,233,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2019. 
(b) Funds made available in subsection (a) for finan-
cial systems modernization may be transferred by the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security between appropriations for 
the same purpose, notwithstanding section 503 of this Act. 
(c) No transfer described in subsection (b) shall occur 
until 15 days after the Committees on Appropriations of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives are notified 
of such transfer. 
SEC. 522. (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. 
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SEC. 523. 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. 524. 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: Provided further, That the 
total cost to the Department of Homeland Security of any 
such conference shall not exceed $500,000. 
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SEC. 525. 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. 
SEC. 526. 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 positions or costs more 
than $5,000,000 in a single year before the end of the 
30-day period beginning on the date on which the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security submits to Congress a notifi-
cation that includes— 
(1) the number of full-time 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. 
SEC. 527. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Committees on Appropria-
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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 Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives for not less than 45 days except 
as otherwise specified in law. 
SEC. 528. (a) Funding provided in this Act for ‘‘Op-
erations and Support’’ may be used for minor procure-
ment, construction, and improvements. 
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), ‘‘minor’’ refers 
to end items with a unit cost of $250,000 or less for per-
sonal property, and $2,000,000 or less for real property. 
SEC. 529. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty. 
SEC. 530. For fiscal year 2018, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security may provide, out of funds available to 
the Department of Homeland Security, for the primary 
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and secondary schooling of dependents of Department of 
Homeland Security personnel who are stationed outside 
the continental United States and for the transportation 
of such dependents in the same manner and to the same 
extent that, pursuant to 14 U.S.C. 544, the Secretary may 
provide, out of funds appropriated to or for the use of 
the Coast Guard, for the primary and secondary schooling 
of, and the transportation of, dependents of Coast Guard 
personnel stationed outside the continental United States. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 531. 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) $12,928,000 from Public Law 115-31 under 
the heading ‘‘Transportation Security Administra-
tion—Operations and Support’’; 
(2) $1,785,697 from Public Law 108-334 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Alteration of Bridges’’; 
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(3) $1,920,100 from Public Law 109-90 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Alteration of Bridges’’; 
(4) $1,791,454 from Public Law 109-295 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Alteration of Bridges’’; 
(5) $3,221,594 from Public Law 110-161 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Alteration of Bridges’’; 
(6) $3,680,885 from Public Law 111-83 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Alteration of Bridges’’; 
(7) $25,000,000 from Public Law 114-113 
under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Acquisition, Con-
struction, and Improvements’’; and 
(8) $95,000,000 from Public Law 115-31 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard—Acquisition, Construc-
tion, and Improvements’’. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 532. From the unobligated balances available 
in the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund estab-
lished by section 9703 of title 31, United States Code 
(added by section 638 of Public Law 102–393), 
$187,000,000 shall be rescinded. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 533. Of the unobligated balances made available 
to ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency—Disaster 
Relief Fund’’, $875,575,000 shall be rescinded: Provided, 
That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that 
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were designated by the Congress as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from the amounts that were 
designated by the Congress as being for disaster relief pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 534. Not later than 90 days from the date of 
this Act, the Commissioner of United States Customs and 
Border Protection shall: (a) conduct a survey of inter-
national passenger traffic at the airports listed in section 
122.15(b) of title 19, Code of Federal Regulations, and 
designate any airport as a port of entry if that airport: 
(1) has scheduled international service by one or more air 
carriers; and (2) received over 75,000 international pas-
senger arrivals during the most recent calendar year in 
which federal passenger data is available; (b) ensure a suf-
ficient number of United States Customs and Border Pro-
tection officers are available at any airport designated as 
a port of entry under subsection (a) in order for landing 
rights requests to be granted in accordance with section 
122.14 of title 19, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 535. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall be 
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available to pay for an abortion, except where the life of 
the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried 
to term, or in the case of rape or incest: Provided, That 
should this prohibition be declared unconstitutional by a 
court of competent jurisdiction, this section shall be null 
and void. 
SEC. 536. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall be 
used to require any person to perform, or facilitate in any 
way the performance of, any abortion. 
SEC. 537. Nothing in the preceding section shall re-
move the obligation of the Assistant Secretary of Home-
land Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment to provide escort services necessary for a female de-
tainee to receive such service outside the detention facility: 
Provided, That nothing in this section in any way dimin-
ishes the effect of section llll [preceding section] 
intended to address the philosophical beliefs of individual 
employees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment. 
SEC. 538. In fiscal year 2018, nonimmigrants shall 
be admitted to the United States under section 
101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a)) to perform agricul-
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tural labor or services, without regard to whether such 
labor is, or services are, of a temporary or seasonal nature. 
SEC. 539. (a) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and 
(b) of section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 
Christopher William Gard, Constance Rhoda Keely Yates, 
and Charles Matthew William Gard shall each be eligible 
for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of 
status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent 
residence upon filing an application for issuance of an im-
migrant visa under section 204 of such Act or for adjust-
ment of status to lawful permanent resident. 
(b) If Christopher William Gard, Constance Rhoda 
Keely Yates, or Charles Matthew William Gard enters the 
United States before the filing deadline specified in sub-
section (c), he or she shall be considered to have entered 
and remained lawfully and shall, if otherwise eligible, be 
eligible for adjustment of status under section 245 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act as of the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
(c) Subsections (a) and (b) shall apply only if the ap-
plication for issuance of an immigrant visa or the applica-
tion for adjustment of status is filed with appropriate fees 
within 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(d) Upon the granting of an immigrant visa or per-
manent residence to Christopher William Gard, Constance 
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Rhoda Keely Yates, and Charles Matthew William Gard, 
the Secretary of State shall instruct the proper officer to 
reduce by 3, during the current or next following fiscal 
year, the total number of immigrant visas that are made 
available to natives of the country of the aliens’ birth 
under section 203(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act or, if applicable, the total number of immigrant visas 
that are made available to natives of the country of the 
aliens’ birth under section 202(e) of such Act. 
(e) The natural parents, brothers, and sisters of 
Christopher William Gard, Constance Rhoda Keely Yates, 
and Charles Matthew William Gard shall not, by virtue 
of such relationship, be accorded any right, privilege, or 
status under the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
SEC. 540. STATUE OF LIMITATIONS.— 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 705 of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5205) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Except’’ and inserting 
‘‘Notwithstanding section 3716(e) of title 31, 
United States Code, and except’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘report for the disaster or 
emergency’’ and inserting ‘‘report for project 
completion as certified by the grantee’’; and 
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(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘report 
for the disaster or emergency’’ and inserting 
‘‘report for project completion as certified by 
the grantee’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3) by inserting ‘‘for 
project completion as certified by the grantee’’ 
after ‘‘final expenditure report’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to disaster or 
emergency assistance provided to a State or local 
government on or after January 1, 2004— 
(A) no administrative action may be taken 
to recover a payment of such assistance after 
the date of enactment of this Act if the action 
is prohibited under section 705(a)(1) of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5205(a)(1)); 
and 
(B) any administrative action to recover a 
payment of such assistance that is pending on 
such date of enactment shall be terminated if 
the action is prohibited under section 705(a)(1) 
of such Act. 
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(2) LIMITATION.—This section and the amend-
ments made by this section, may not be construed 
to invalidate or otherwise affect any administration 
action completed before the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 534. $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Appropriations Act, 2018’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 171 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3355 
[Report No. 115–239] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2018, and for other purposes. 
JULY 21, 2017 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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