such software shall be installed, maintained, and operated 
in accordance with all applicable privacy laws and agency- 
specific restrictions and standards on access to personally 
identifiable information. 
(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 April 1, 2013, the heads of all Fed-
eral agencies shall submit to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Senate and House of Representatives ex-
penditure plans for necessary cybersecurity improvements 
to address known vulnerabilities to information systems 
described in subsection (a). 
(d) Not later July 1, 2013, and quarterly thereafter, 
the head of each Federal agency shall submit to the Direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget a report on 
the execution of the expenditure plan for that agency re-
quired by subsection (c): Provided, That the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget shall summarize 
such execution reports and annually submit such sum-
maries 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. 
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(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 
except for the Department of Defense, the Central Intel-
ligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence. 
SEC. 553. (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. 554. None of the funds made available under 
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. 555. The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government receiving 
funds appropriated in this Act to track undisbursed bal-
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ances in expired grant accounts and include in its annual 
performance plan and performance and accountability re-
ports the following: 
(1) Details on future action the department, 
agency, or instrumentality will take to resolve 
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. 
(2) The method that the department, agency, or 
instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances 
in expired grant accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in ex-
pired grant accounts that may be returned to the 
Treasury of the United States. 
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on 
the total number of expired grant accounts with 
undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal 
year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality 
and the total finances that have not been obligated 
to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 556. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the 
attendance of more than 50 employees from a Federal de-
partment or agency at any single conference occurring 
outside the United States, unless –— 
(1) such conference is a law enforcement training or 
operational conference for law enforcement personnel and 
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the majority of Federal employees in attendance are law 
enforcement personnel stationed outside the United 
States; or 
(2) such attendance is pursuant to law enforcement, 
security, or military operations. 
SEC. 557. (a) The head of any agency, office, or com-
ponent funded by this Act shall submit quarterly reports 
to the Inspector General regarding the costs and con-
tracting procedures relating to each conference, ceremony, 
and similar event, to include commissioning, de-commis-
sioning, change of command, and other ceremonies, held 
by the agency during fiscal year 2013 for which the cost 
to the Government was more than $20,000. 
(b) Each report submitted under subsection (a) shall 
include, for each event described in that subsection held 
during the applicable quarter— 
(1) a description of the subject of and number 
of participants attending that event; 
(2) a detailed statement of the costs to the Gov-
ernment relating to that event, including— 
(A) the cost of any food or beverages; 
(B) the cost of any audio-visual services; 
and 
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(C) a discussion of the methodology used 
to determine which costs relate to that event; 
and 
(3) a description of the contracting procedures 
relating to that event, including— 
(A) whether contracts were awarded on a 
competitive basis for that event; and 
(B) a discussion of any cost comparison 
conducted by the agency in evaluating potential 
contractors for that event. 
(c) Not later than 30 days after the end of fiscal year 
2013, the Inspector General shall submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives on Department of Homeland Se-
curity spending on conferences, ceremonies, and similar 
events in fiscal year 2013, as reported pursuant to sub-
sections (a) and (b). The report shall list the relevant 
events, substantiate that the Department complied with 
all applicable laws and regulations associated with spend-
ing on such events, and describe in detail the total costs 
to the Government associated with those events, to include 
the amount of funding obligated and expended by appro-
priation or other source of funding, including relevant 
budget accounts. 
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SEC. 558. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
poration that was convicted of a felony criminal violation 
under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, 
where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, un-
less an agency has considered suspension or debarment 
of the corporation and has made a determination that this 
further action is not necessary to protect the interests of 
the Government. 
SEC. 559. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
poration that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 
been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 
remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 
is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree-
ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 
liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 
tax liability, unless an agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter-
mination that this further action is not necessary to pro-
tect the interests of the Government. 
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(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 560. The unobligated balance of each amount 
specified for a project or activity under the heading ‘‘Fed-
eral 
Emergency 
Management 
Agency—National 
Predisaster Mitigation Fund’’ in the explanatory state-
ment accompanying Public Law 110–161 where the Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency has received written 
notification of the intent by the recipient to not apply for 
the grant is rescinded, and the overall unobligated balance 
available under such heading in such Act is reduced ac-
cordingly. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 561. Of the funds appropriated in Department 
of Homeland Security Acts the following funds are hereby 
rescinded from the following accounts and programs in the 
specified amounts: Provided, That no amounts may be re-
scinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concur-
rent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
(1) $42,500,000 from Coast Guard ‘‘Acquisi-
tion, Construction, and Improvements,’’ 2010/2014. 
(2) $91,100,000 from Coast Guard ‘‘Acquisi-
tion, Construction, and Improvements,’’ 2011/2015. 
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(3) $40,412,000 from U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection ‘‘Border Security Fencing, Infra-
structure, and Technology,’’ 2012/2014. 
(4) $48,000,000 from Coast Guard ‘‘Acquisi-
tion, Construction, and Improvements,’’ 2012/2016. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 562. From the unobligated balances made avail-
able in the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund 
established by section 9703.1 of title 31, United States 
Code, which was added to such title by section 638 of Pub-
lic Law 102–393, $60,000,000 shall be permanently re-
scinded. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 563. 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) $1,316,000 from Department of Homeland 
Security ‘‘Office for Domestic Preparedness’’; and 
(2) $2,831,000 from Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency ‘‘National Predisaster Mitigation 
Fund’’. 
SEC. 564. (a) Section 44945 of Title 49, United 
States Code, is hereafter repealed. 
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(b) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 
449 of title 49, United States Code, is hereafter amended 
by striking the item relating to such section. 
SEC. 565. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require a facility to employ or to not 
employ a particular security measure for personnel surety 
if the facility has adopted personnel measures designed 
to— 
(1) verify and validate individuals’ identifica-
tion; 
(2) check individuals’ criminal history; 
(3) verify and validate individuals’ legal author-
ization to work; and 
(4) identify people with terrorist ties. 
SEC. 566. 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. 567. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall be 
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used to require any person to perform, or facilitate in any 
way the performance of, any abortion. 
SEC. 568. 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 567 intended to address the phil-
osophical beliefs of individual employees of U.S. Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 569. 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 $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Appropriations Act, 2013’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 345 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5855 
[Report No. 112–492] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2013, and for other purposes. 
MAY 23, 2012 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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