IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4780 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 17, 2016 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop 
a comprehensive strategy for Department of Homeland 
Security operations abroad, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Strategy for International Programs Act’’. 
SEC. 2. COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
PROGRAMS FOR VETTING AND SCREENING 
PERSONS SEEKING TO ENTER THE UNITED 
STATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Home-
land Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate a comprehensive 3-year strategy for inter-
national programs of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity in which personnel and resources of the Department 
are deployed abroad for vetting and screening of persons 
seeking to enter the United States. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The strategy required under sub-
section (a) shall include, at a minimum, the following: 
(1) Specific Department of Homeland Security 
risk-based goals for international programs of the 
Department in which personnel and resources of the 
Department are deployed abroad for vetting and 
screening of persons seeking to enter the United 
States. 
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(2) A risk-based method for determining wheth-
er to establish new international programs in new lo-
cations, given resource constraints, or expand exist-
ing international programs of the Department, in 
which personnel and resources of the Department 
are deployed abroad for vetting and screening of 
persons seeking to enter the United States. 
(3) Alignment with the highest Department- 
wide and Government-wide strategic priorities of re-
source allocations on international programs of the 
Department in which personnel and resources of the 
Department are deployed abroad for vetting and 
screening of persons seeking to enter the United 
States. 
(4) A common reporting framework for the sub-
mission of reliable, comparable cost data by compo-
nents of the Department on overseas expenditures 
attributable to international programs of the De-
partment in which personnel and resources of the 
Department are deployed abroad for vetting and 
screening of persons seeking to enter the United 
States. 
(c) CONSIDERATIONS.—In developing the strategy re-
quired under subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall consider, at a minimum, the following: 
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(1) Information on existing operations of inter-
national programs of the Department of Homeland 
Security in which personnel and resources of the De-
partment are deployed abroad for vetting and 
screening of persons seeking to enter the United 
States that includes corresponding information for 
each location in which each such program operates. 
(2) The number of Department personnel de-
ployed to each location at which an international 
program referred to in subparagraph (A) is in oper-
ation during the current and preceding fiscal year. 
(3) Analysis of the impact of each international 
program referred to in paragraph (1) on domestic 
activities of components of the Department of 
Homeland Security. 
(4) Analysis of barriers to the expansion of an 
international program referred to in paragraph (1). 
(d) FORM.—The strategy required under subsection 
(a) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 
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contain a classified annex if the Secretary of Homeland 
Security determines that such is appropriate. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 16, 2016. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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