SEC. 522. 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. 523. In developing any process to screen avia-
tion passengers and crews for transportation or national 
security purposes, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall ensure that all such processes take into consideration 
such passengers’ and crews’ privacy and civil liberties con-
sistent with applicable laws, regulations, and guidance. 
SEC. 524. 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 
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. 525. (a) For an additional amount for financial 
systems modernization, $41,215,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2018. 
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(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 House of Representatives and the Senate are notified 
of such transfer. 
SEC. 526. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
ensure enforcement of immigration laws (as defined in sec-
tion 101(a)(17) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(17))). 
SEC. 527. (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. 528. 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 
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law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-
ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 
SEC. 529. 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 
House of Representatives and the Senate 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. 
SEC. 530. 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. 531. As authorized by section 601(b) of the 
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Im-
plementation Act (Public Law 112–42), not to exceed 
$220,000,000 in 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. 532. 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. 533. (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-
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 for no less than 45 days except as other-
wise specified in law. 
SEC. 534. (a) Beginning on the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security 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. 
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(b) In this section, 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. 535. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 
may include in the President’s budget proposal for fiscal 
year 2018, submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 
31, United States Code, and accompanying justification 
materials, an account structure under which each appro-
priation under each agency heading either remains the 
same as fiscal year 2017 or falls within the following cat-
egories of appropriations: 
(1) Operations and Support. 
(2) Procurements, Construction, and Improve-
ments. 
(3) Research and Development. 
(4) Federal Assistance. 
(b) The Under Secretary for Management, acting 
through the Chief Financial Officer, shall determine and 
provide centralized guidance to each agency on how to 
structure appropriations for purposes of subsection (a). 
(c) Not earlier than October 1, 2017, the accounts 
designated under subsection (a) may be established, and 
the Secretary of Homeland Security may execute appro-
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priations of the Department as provided pursuant to such 
subsection, including any continuing appropriations made 
available for fiscal year 2018 before enactment of a reg-
ular appropriations Act. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security may transfer any appro-
priation made available to the Department of Homeland 
Security by any appropriations Acts to the accounts cre-
ated pursuant to subsection (c) to carry out the require-
ments of such subsection, and shall notify the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate at least 5 days prior to each transfer. 
SEC. 536. 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. 537. For an additional amount for ‘‘U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection — Operations and Support’’, 
$31,000,000, to remain available until expended, to be re-
duced by amounts collected and credited to this appropria-
tion from amounts authorized to be collected by section 
286(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1356(i)), section 10412 of the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8311), and section 817 
of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 
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2015, or other such authorizing language: Provided, That 
to the extent that amounts realized from such collections 
exceed $31,000,000, those amounts in excess of 
$31,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation, to re-
main available until expended. 
SEC. 538. Funds appropriated by this Act for the De-
partment of Homeland Security may be obligated in the 
account and the budget structure established pursuant to 
section 563 of division F of the Consolidated Appropria-
tions Act, 2016 (Public Law 114–113). 
SEC. 539. All official costs associated with the use 
of Government aircraft by Department of Homeland Secu-
rity personnel to support official travel of the Secretary 
and the Deputy Secretary shall be paid from amounts 
made available for the Immediate Office of the Secretary 
and the Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary. 
SEC. 540. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to approve, license, facilitate, author-
ize, or otherwise allow the trafficking or import of prop-
erty confiscated by the Cuban Government. 
(b) In this section, the terms ‘‘confiscated’’, ‘‘Cuban 
Government’’, ‘‘property’’, and ‘‘traffic’’ have the mean-
ings given such terms in paragraphs (4), (5), (12)(A), and 
(13), respectively, of section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and 
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Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (2216 
U.S.C. 6023). 
SEC. 541. (a) For funds provided in this Act for each 
‘‘Operations and Support’’ appropriation and for ‘‘Coast 
Guard — Operating Expenses’’, 20 percent shall be with-
held from obligation until the fiscal year 2018 budget jus-
tification materials for the Department of Homeland Se-
curity are provided to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate in accord-
ance with the requirements on page 17 of House Report 
114–215, which were incorporated by reference into Public 
Law 114–113 in the explanatory statement accompanying 
that Act. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the Office of In-
spector General. 
SEC. 542. (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 procure-
ment, construction, and improvements’’ is defined as per-
sonal property with a unit cost of $250,000 or less or real 
property with a unit cost of $2,000,000 or less. 
SEC. 543. The aggregate charges assessed during fis-
cal year 2017, as authorized in title III of the Depart-
ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-
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opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1999 (42 U.S.C. 5196e), shall not be less than 100 per-
cent of the amounts anticipated by the Department of 
Homeland Security to be necessary for its Radiological 
Emergency Preparedness Program for the next fiscal year: 
Provided, That the methodology for assessment and collec-
tion of fees shall be fair and equitable and shall reflect 
costs of providing such services, including administrative 
costs of collecting such fees: Provided further, That such 
fees shall be deposited in a Radiological Emergency Pre-
paredness Program account as offsetting collections and 
will become available for authorized purposes on October 
1, 2017, and remain available until expended. 
SEC. 544. Section 118 of the Treasury and General 
Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into 
law by section 1(3) of Public Law 106–554; 114 Stat. 
2763A–134) is amended, in the first sentence, by striking 
‘‘for the year would’’ and inserting ‘‘for calendar years 
2016, would exceed the rate of basic pay payable for level 
III of the Executive Schedule, and for any other year, 
would’’. 
SEC. 545. Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity shall submit the report on ICE detention costs de-
scribed in the report accompanying this Act. 
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SEC. 546. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs of the Senate, at the time the President’s budget 
proposal for fiscal year 2018 is submitted pursuant to sec-
tion 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, a classified 
report on the assessment of the relative threat, vulner-
ability, and consequences from acts of terrorism faced by 
each eligible metropolitan area, required by section 2003 
of Public Law 110–53 (6 U.S.C. 604). 
SEC. 547. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall be 
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. 548. 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. 
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SEC. 549. 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. 550. Notwithstanding subsection (e)(3)(B) of 
section 559 of division F of Public Law 113–76 and sub-
section (g) of section 560 of division D of Public Law 
113–6, U.S. Customs and Border Protection may receive 
reimbursement for the cost of up to five full-time equiva-
lent officers under the programs established in such sec-
tions at no more than five ports of entry. 
SEC. 551. No funds or fees made available to the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, or to the head of any other 
Federal agency, by this or any other Act may be used to 
release from custody, other than for removal from the 
United States, or as required by law or pursuant to a 
court order, any lawfully detained alien described in the 
Priority 1 or Priority 2 category in the memorandum from 
the Secretary of Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Policies for 
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the Apprehension, Detention and Removal of Undocu-
mented Immigrants’’ dated November 20, 2014. 
SEC. 552. (a) Section 214(g)(9)(A) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(9)(A)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘2013, 2014, or 2015 shall not again 
be counted toward such limitation during fiscal year 
2016.’’ and inserting ‘‘2014, 2015, or 2016 shall not 
again be counted toward such limitation during fiscal year 
2017.’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take 
effect on October 1, 2016. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 553. 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) $95,000,000 from Public Law 109–88; 
(2) $55,000,000 from unobligated prior year 
balances from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
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— Border Security, Fencing, Infrastructure, and 
Technology’’; 
(3) $45,000,000 from Public Law 114–4 under 
the heading ‘‘U. S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement — Salaries and Expenses’’; 
(4) $12,200,000 from Public Law 114–113 
under the heading ‘‘Transportation Security Admin-
istration — Aviation Security’’; 
(5) $4,200,000 from Public Law 113–6 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard — Acquisition, Construc-
tion, and Improvements’’; 
(6) $19,300,000 from Public Law 113–76 
under the heading ‘‘Coast Guard — Acquisition, 
Construction, and Improvements’’; and 
(7) $16,500,000 from Public Law 114–4 under 
the heading ‘‘Coast Guard — Acquisition, Construc-
tion, and Improvements’’. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 554. 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. 
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(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 555. Of the unobligated balances made available 
to ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency — Disaster 
Relief Fund’’, $770,700,000 shall be rescinded: Provided, 
That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that 
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. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 556. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is 
$5,000,000. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
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