multiple award contract, or to issue a letter of intent 
totaling in excess of $4,000,000; 
(3) awarding a task or delivery order requiring 
an obligation of funds in an amount greater than 
$10,000,000 from multi-year Department of Home-
land Security funds; 
(4) making a sole-source grant award; or 
(5) announcing publicly the intention to make 
or award items under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4), 
including 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 House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate 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. 
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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 
law enforcement training without advance notification to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, 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 Centers’ 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 522 and 530 of the Department 
of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (division 
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. 
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SEC. 511. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used in contravention of the applicable 
provisions of the Buy American Act. 
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), 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. (a) None of the funds provided or other-
wise made available in this Act shall be available to carry 
out section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 452) unless explicitly authorized by the Con-
gress. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the use of such 
section 872— 
(1) to allocate or reallocate the functions of the 
Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Office to other officers and orga-
nizational units within the Department; or 
(2) to allocate or reallocate any other functions 
of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Of-
fice to other offices and organizational units within 
the Department. 
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(c) The Secretary of Homeland Security may transfer 
funds made available in prior appropriations Acts to the 
Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office between 
any appropriations available to the Department of Home-
land Security as necessary to carry out the purposes de-
scribed in subsection (b). 
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 House of Representatives and the Senate may 
not delegate such authority to perform that act unless spe-
cifically authorized herein. 
SEC. 516. 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. 517. 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. 518. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
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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. 519. (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, territorial, 
or local law enforcement agency or any other entity car-
rying out criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudica-
tion activities. 
SEC. 520. 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. 521. (a) 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 
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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 
House of Representatives and the Senate within at least 
10 days of that determination and the basis for that deter-
mination. 
(b) For purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-
national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring 
outside of the United States attended by representatives 
of the United States Government and of foreign govern-
ments, international organizations, or nongovernmental 
organizations. 
(c) The total cost to the Department of Homeland 
Security of any such conference shall not exceed $500,000. 
(d) Employees who attend a conference virtually 
without travel away from their permanent duty station 
within the United States shall not be counted for purposes 
of this section, and the prohibition contained in this sec-
tion shall not apply to payments for the costs of attend-
ance for such employees. 
SEC. 522. 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. 523. (a) None of the funds made available to 
the Department of Homeland Security by this or any other 
Act may be obligated for the implementation of any struc-
tural pay reform or the introduction of any new position 
classification that will affect more than 100 full-time 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 positions affected by 
such change; 
(2) funding required for such change for the 
current fiscal year and through the Future Years 
Homeland Security Program; 
(3) justification for such change; and 
(4) for a structural pay reform, an analysis of 
compensation alternatives to such change that were 
considered by the Department. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to such change if— 
(1) it was proposed in the President’s budget 
proposal for the fiscal year funded by this Act; and 
(2) funds for such change have not been explic-
itly denied or restricted in this Act. 
SEC. 524. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
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post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate 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 House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate for not less than 45 days ex-
cept as otherwise specified in law. 
SEC. 525. (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 $4,000,000 or less for real property. 
SEC. 526. The authority provided by section 532 of 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 
Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141) regarding primary and 
secondary schooling of dependents shall continue in effect 
during fiscal year 2026. 
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SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available to the Department of Homeland Se-
curity by this Act may be used to prevent any of the fol-
lowing persons from entering, for the purpose of con-
ducting oversight, any facility used to hold, detain, or oth-
erwise house aliens, or to make any temporary modifica-
tion at any such facility that in any way alters what is 
observed by a visiting Member of Congress or such des-
ignated employee, compared to what would be observed in 
the absence of such modification: 
(1) a Member of Congress; and 
(2) an employee of the United States House of 
Representatives or the United States Senate des-
ignated by such a Member for the purposes of this 
section. 
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to re-
quire a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the 
intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a) for 
the purpose of conducting oversight. 
(c) With respect to individuals described in subsection 
(a)(2), the Department of Homeland Security may require 
that a request be made at least 24 hours in advance of 
an intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a). 
SEC. 528. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 
none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
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to place restraints on a woman in the custody of the De-
partment of Homeland Security (including during trans-
port, in a detention facility, or at an outside medical facil-
ity) who is pregnant or in post-delivery recuperation. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 
pregnant woman if— 
(1) an appropriate official of the Department of 
Homeland Security makes an individualized deter-
mination that the woman— 
(A) is a serious flight risk, and such risk 
cannot be prevented by other means; or 
(B) poses an immediate and serious threat 
to harm herself or others that cannot be pre-
vented by other means; or 
(2) a medical professional responsible for the 
care of the pregnant woman determines that the use 
of therapeutic restraints is appropriate for the med-
ical safety of the woman. 
(c) If a pregnant woman is restrained pursuant to 
subsection (b), only the safest and least restrictive re-
straints, as determined by the appropriate medical profes-
sional treating the woman, may be used. In no case may 
restraints be used on a woman who is in active labor or 
delivery, and in no case may a pregnant woman be re-
strained in a face-down position with four-point restraints, 
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on her back, or in a restraint belt that constricts the area 
of the pregnancy. A pregnant woman who is immobilized 
by restraints shall be positioned, to the maximum extent 
feasible, on her left side. 
SEC. 529. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to destroy any document, recording, 
or other record pertaining to any— 
(1) death of; 
(2) potential sexual assault or abuse per-
petrated against; or 
(3) allegation of abuse, criminal activity, or dis-
ruption committed by an individual held in the cus-
tody of the Department of Homeland Security. 
(b) The records referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
made available, in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations, and Federal rules governing disclosure in liti-
gation, to an individual who has been charged with a 
crime, been placed into segregation, or otherwise punished 
as a result of an allegation described in paragraph (3), 
upon the request of such individual. 
SEC. 530. 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 any Federal funds in the same manner 
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as such section applied to funds made available in that 
Act. 
SEC. 531. (a) Not later than 10 days after the date 
on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is 
submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 
31, United States Code, the Under Secretary for Manage-
ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate a report on the unfunded priorities, for 
the Department of Homeland Security and separately for 
each departmental component, for which discretionary 
funding would be classified as budget function 050. 
(b) Each report under this section shall specify, for 
each such unfunded priority— 
(1) a summary description, including the objec-
tives to be achieved if such priority is funded 
(whether in whole or in part); 
(2) the description, including the objectives to 
be achieved if such priority is funded (whether in 
whole or in part); 
(3) account information, including the following 
(as applicable): 
(A) appropriation account; and 
(B) program, project, or activity name; 
and 
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(4) the additional number of full-time or part- 
time positions to be funded as part of such priority. 
(c) In this section, the term ‘‘unfunded priority’’, in 
the case of a fiscal year, means a requirement that— 
(1) is not funded in the budget referred to in 
subsection (a); 
(2) is necessary to fulfill a requirement associ-
ated with an operational or contingency plan for the 
Department; and 
(3) would have been recommended for funding 
through the budget referred to in subsection (a) if— 
(A) additional resources had been available 
for the budget to fund the requirement; 
(B) the requirement has emerged since the 
budget was formulated; or 
(C) the requirement is necessary to sustain 
prior-year investments. 
SEC. 532. (a) Not later than 10 days after a deter-
mination is made by the President to evaluate and initiate 
protection under any authority for a former or retired 
Government official or employee, or for an individual who, 
during the duration of the directed protection, will become 
a former or retired Government official or employee (re-
ferred to in this section as a ‘‘covered individual’’), the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a notifica-
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tion to congressional leadership and the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate, the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Home-
land Security of the House of Representatives, the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate, and the Committee on Oversight and Re-
form of the House of Representatives (referred to in this 
section as the ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’). 
(b) Such notification may be submitted in classified 
form, if necessary, and in consultation with the Director 
of National Intelligence or the Director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, as appropriate, and shall include the 
threat assessment, scope of the protection, and the antici-
pated cost and duration of such protection. 
(c) Not later than 15 days before extending, or 30 
days before terminating, protection for a covered indi-
vidual, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 
a notification regarding the extension or termination and 
any change to the threat assessment to the congressional 
leadership and the appropriate congressional committees. 
(d) Not later than 45 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter, the Secretary 
shall submit a report to the congressional leadership and 
the appropriate congressional committees, which may be 
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submitted in classified form, if necessary, detailing each 
covered individual, and the scope and associated cost of 
protection. 
SEC. 533. (a) None of the funds provided to the De-
partment of Homeland Security in this or any prior Act 
may be used by an agency to submit an initial project pro-
posal to the Technology Modernization Fund (as author-
ized by section 1078 of subtitle G of title X of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public 
Law 115–91)) unless, concurrent with the submission of 
an initial project proposal to the Technology Moderniza-
tion Board, the head of the agency— 
(1) notifies the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate of 
the proposed submission of the project proposal; 
(2) submits to the Committees on Appropria-
tions a copy of the project proposal; and 
(3) provides a detailed analysis of how the pro-
posed project funding would supplement or supplant 
funding requested as part of the Department’s most 
recent budget submission. 
(b) None of the funds provided to the Department 
of Homeland Security by the Technology Modernization 
Fund shall be available for obligation until 15 days after 
a report on such funds has been transmitted to the Com-
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mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate. 
(c) The report described in subsection (b) shall in-
clude— 
(1) the full project proposal submitted to and 
approved by the Fund’s Technology Modernization 
Board; 
(2) the finalized interagency agreement between 
the Department and the Fund including the 
project’s deliverables and repayment terms, as appli-
cable; 
(3) a detailed analysis of how the project will 
supplement or supplant existing funding available to 
the Department for similar activities; 
(4) a plan for how the Department will repay 
the Fund, including specific planned funding 
sources, as applicable; and 
(5) other information as determined by the Sec-
retary. 
SEC. 534. Within 60 days of any budget submission 
for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 
2027 that assumes revenues or proposes a reduction from 
the previous year based on user fees proposals that have 
not been enacted into law prior to the submission of the 
budget, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide 
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the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate specific reductions in proposed 
discretionary budget authority commensurate with the 
revenues assumed in such proposals in the event that they 
are not enacted prior to October 1, 2026. 
SEC. 535. 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. 536. No Federal funds made available to the 
Department of Homeland Security may be used to enter 
into a procurement contract, memorandum of under-
standing, or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant 
to, or provide a loan or guarantee to, any entity identified 
under section 1260H of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 
(Public Law 116–283) or any subsidiary of such entity. 
SEC. 537. 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— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
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(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. 538. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall, on a monthly basis beginning immediately after the 
date of enactment of this Act, develop estimates of the 
number of aliens anticipated to arrive at the southern bor-
der of the United States. 
(b) The Secretary shall ensure that, at a minimum, 
the estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a)— 
(1) cover the current fiscal year and the fol-
lowing fiscal year; 
(2) include a breakout by demographics, to in-
clude single adults, family units, and unaccompanied 
children; 
(3) undergo an independent validation and 
verification review; 
(4) are used to inform policy planning and 
budgeting processes within the Department of 
Homeland Security; and 
(5) are included in all budget materials sub-
mitted to Congress for each fiscal year beginning 
after the date of enactment of this Act including— 
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(A) the President’s annual budget request 
pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 
States Code; 
(B) any supplemental funding request sub-
mitted to Congress; 
(C) any reprogramming and transfer noti-
fication pursuant to section 503 of this Act; 
and 
(D) all budget materials shall include— 
(i) the most recent monthly estimates 
developed pursuant to subsection (a); 
(ii) a description and quantification of 
the estimates used to justify funding re-
quests for Department programs related to 
border security, immigration enforcement, 
and immigration services; 
(iii) a description and quantification 
of the anticipated workload and require-
ments resulting from such estimates; and 
(iv) a confirmation as to whether the 
budget requests for impacted agencies were 
developed using the same estimates. 
(c) The Secretary shall share the monthly estimates 
developed pursuant to subsection (a) with the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the 
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Secretary of State, and the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
(d) If the monthly estimates described in subsection 
(b) are not provided for the purposes described, the re-
programming and transfer authority provided in section 
503 of this Act shall be suspended until such time as the 
required estimates are provided to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-
ate. 
SEC. 539. (a) Prior to the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity requesting assistance from the Department of De-
fense for border security operations, the Secretary shall 
ensure that an alternatives analysis and cost-benefit anal-
ysis is conducted before such request is made, which shall 
include an examination of obtaining such support through 
other means. 
(b) Not later than 30 days after the date on which 
a request for assistance is made, the Secretary of Home-
land Security shall submit to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
a report detailing the types of support requested, the alter-
natives analysis and cost-benefit analysis described in sub-
section (a), and the operational impact to Department of 
Homeland Security operations of any Department of De-
fense border security support requested by the Secretary. 
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(c) Not later than 30 days after the date on which 
a request made for assistance is granted and quarterly 
thereafter through the duration of such assistance, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate, a report detailing the assistance provided 
and the operational impacts to border security operations. 
SEC. 540. Funds made available in this Act or any 
other Act for Operations and Support may be used for 
the necessary expenses of providing an employee emer-
gency back-up care program. 
SEC. 541. (a) Not less than $5,000,000 made avail-
able in this Act shall be transferred to ‘‘U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Support’’ to 
support and conduct necessary operations of the Blue 
Campaign for fiscal year 2026. 
(b) Prior to the obligation of funds made available 
by subsection (a), notification shall be submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate. 
SEC. 542. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
to establish or support the activities of a Disinformation 
Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity, or any other similar entity carrying out activities re-
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SEC. 549. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be obligated or ex-
pended in contravention of the First, Fourth, Fifth, and 
Sixth Amendments to the Constitution. 
SEC. 550. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to interfere 
with or restrict the ability of an individual to record or 
document immigration enforcement actions, consistent 
with existing laws, by U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement or any other Federal law enforcement occurring 
in public areas, provided that such documentation does not 
obstruct or physically interfere with law enforcement oper-
ations. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 551. $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Appropriations Act, 2026’’. 
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