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processes take into consideration such passengers’ and crews’ pri-
vacy and civil liberties consistent with applicable laws, regulations, 
and guidance. 
SEC. 538. (a) Notwithstanding section 1356(n) of title 8, United 
States Code, of the funds deposited into the Immigration Examina-
tions Fee Account, up to $10,000,000 may be allocated by United 
States Citizenship and Immigration Services in fiscal year 2016 
for the purpose of providing an immigrant integration grants pro-
gram. 
(b) None of the funds made available to United States Citizen-
ship and Immigration Services for grants for immigrant integration 
may be used to provide services to aliens who have not been 
lawfully admitted for permanent residence. 
SEC. 539. For an additional amount for the ‘‘Office of the 
Under Secretary for Management’’, $215,679,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, for necessary expenses to plan, acquire, design, 
construct, renovate, remediate, equip, furnish, improve infrastruc-
ture, and occupy buildings and facilities for the Department head-
quarters consolidation project and associated mission support 
consolidation: Provided, That the Committees on Appropriations 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall receive an 
expenditure plan not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act detailing the allocation of these funds. 
SEC. 540. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used by the Department 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 with-
out regard to the above referenced statutes. 
SEC. 541. (a) For an additional amount for financial systems 
modernization, $52,977,000 to remain available until September 
30, 2017. 
(b) Funds made available in subsection (a) for financial systems 
modernization may be transferred by the Secretary of Homeland 
Security between appropriations for the same purpose, notwith-
standing 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. 542. (a) For an additional amount for cybersecurity to 
safeguard and enhance Department of Homeland Security systems 
and capabilities, $100,000,000 to remain available until September 
30, 2017. 
(b) Funds made available in subsection (a) for cybersecurity 
may be transferred by the Secretary 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. 543. (a) For an additional amount for emergent threats 
from violent extremism and from complex, coordinated terrorist 
attacks, $50,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2017. 
(b) Funds made available in subsection (a) for emergent threats 
may be transferred by the Secretary of Homeland Security between
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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. 544. The Secretary of Homeland Security may transfer 
to the fund established by 8 U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 
from appropriations available to the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity: Provided, That the Secretary shall notify the Committees 
on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
5 days in advance of such transfer. 
SEC. 545. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure 
enforcement of all immigration laws (as defined in section 101(a)(17) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(17))). 
SEC. 546. (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 nec-
essary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency 
or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, prosecution, 
or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 547. 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 individual if the Federal 
law enforcement officer knows or suspects that the individual is 
an agent of a drug cartel unless law enforcement personnel of 
the United States continuously monitor or control the firearm at 
all times. 
SEC. 548. None of the funds provided in this or any other 
Act may be obligated to implement the National Preparedness 
Grant Program or any other successor grant programs unless explic-
itly authorized by Congress. 
SEC. 549. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to provide funding for the position of Public Advocate, 
or a successor position, within U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement. 
SEC. 550. Section 559(e)(3)(D) of Public Law 113–76 is amended 
by striking ‘‘five pilots per year’’ and inserting ‘‘10 pilots per year’’. 
SEC. 551. 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 inter-
national conference unless 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 
Senate and the House of Representatives within at least 10 days 
of that determination and the basis for that determination: Pro-
vided, That for purposes of this section the term ‘‘international 
conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring outside of the United 
States attended by representatives of the United States Government 
and of foreign 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. 552. 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 Security Event. 
SEC. 553. With the exception of countries with preclearance 
facilities in service prior to 2013, none of the funds made available 
in this Act may be used for new U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
air preclearance agreements entering into force after February 1, 
2014, unless: (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, has certified to Congress that air 
preclearance operations at the airport provide a homeland or 
national security benefit to the United States; (2) U.S. passenger 
air carriers are not precluded from operating at existing 
preclearance locations; and (3) a U.S. passenger air carrier is oper-
ating at all airports contemplated for establishment of new air 
preclearance operations. 
SEC. 554. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used by the Administrator of the Transportation 
Security Administration to implement, administer, or enforce, in 
abrogation of the responsibility described in section 44903(n)(1) 
of title 49, United States Code, any requirement that airport opera-
tors provide airport-financed staffing to monitor exit points from 
the sterile area of any airport at which the Transportation Security 
Administration provided such monitoring as of December 1, 2013. 
SEC. 555. The administrative law judge annuitants partici-
pating in the Senior Administrative Law Judge Program managed 
by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management under section 
3323 of title 5, United States Code, shall be available on a tem-
porary reemployment basis to conduct arbitrations of disputes 
arising from delivery of assistance under the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency Public Assistance Program. 
SEC. 556. As authorized by section 601(b) of the United States- 
Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act (Public 
Law 112–42) 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. 557. 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 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 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 Homeland Security Program; 
(3) justification for such change; and 
(4) an analysis of compensation alternatives to such change 
that were considered by the Department. 
SEC. 558. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in 
this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on the public 
Web site of that agency any report required to be submitted by 
the Committees on Appropriations 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—
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(1) the public posting of the report compromises 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 requesting 
Committee or Committees of Congress for no less than 45 days 
except as otherwise specified in law. 
SEC. 559. (a) IN GENERAL.—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. 
(b) BORDER CROSSING FEE DEFINED.—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. 560. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, grants 
awarded to States along the Southwest Border of the United States 
under sections 2003 or 2004 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 604 and 605) using funds provided under the heading 
‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency, State and Local Pro-
grams’’ in this Act, Public Law 114–4, division F of Public Law 
113–76, or division D of Public Law 113–6 may be used by recipients 
or sub-recipients for costs, or reimbursement of costs, related to 
providing humanitarian relief to unaccompanied alien children and 
alien adults accompanied by an alien minor where they are encoun-
tered after entering the United States, provided that such costs 
were incurred between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2014, 
or during the award period of performance. 
SEC. 561. (a) Each major acquisition program of the Department 
of Homeland Security, as defined in Department of Homeland Secu-
rity Management Directive 102–2, shall meet established acquisi-
tion documentation requirements for its acquisition program base-
line established in the Department of Homeland Security Instruc-
tion Manual 102–01–001 and the Department of Homeland Security 
Acquisition Instruction/Guidebook 102–01–001, Appendix K. 
(b) The Department shall report to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Senate and the House of Representatives in the 
Comprehensive Acquisition Status Report and its quarterly updates, 
required under the heading ‘‘Office of the Under Secretary for 
Management’’ of this Act, on any major acquisition program that 
does not meet such documentation requirements and the schedule 
by which the program will come into compliance with these require-
ments. 
(c) None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act for any fiscal year may be used for a major acquisition program 
that is out of compliance with such documentation requirements 
for more than two years except that funds may be used solely 
to come into compliance with such documentation requirements 
or to terminate the program. 
SEC. 562. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
who prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the 
President’s budget proposal to the Congress of the United States