Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DHS Joint Task Force 
Reauthorization Act of 2022’’. 
SEC. 2. JOINT TASK FORCES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
HOMELAND SECURITY. 
Subsection (b) of section 708 of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 348) is amended— 
(1) by amending paragraph (8) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(8) JOINT TASK FORCE STAFF.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each Joint Task Force 
shall have a staff, composed of personnel from 
relevant components and offices of the Depart-
ment, to assist the Director of such Joint Task 
Force in carrying out the mission and respon-
sibilities of such Joint Task Force. 
‘‘(B) REPORT.—The Secretary shall include 
in the report submitted under paragraph 
(6)(F)— 
‘‘(i) the number of personnel perma-
nently assigned to each Joint Task Force by 
each component and office; and 
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‘‘(ii) the number of personnel assigned 
on a temporary basis to each Joint Task 
Force by each component and office.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (9)— 
(A) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘MISSION 
AND’’ after ‘‘ESTABLISHMENT OF’’; 
(B) by amending subparagraph (A) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(A) using leading practices in performance 
management and lessons learned by other law 
enforcement task forces and joint operations, es-
tablish— 
‘‘(i) the mission, strategic goals, and 
objectives of each Joint Task Force; 
‘‘(ii) the criteria for terminating each 
Joint Task Force; and 
‘‘(iii) outcome-based and other appro-
priate performance metrics for evaluating 
the effectiveness of each Joint Task Force 
with respect to the mission, strategic goals, 
and objectives established pursuant to clause 
(i), including— 
‘‘(I) targets for each such Joint 
Task Force to achieve for each of the 
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three years after such establishment; 
and 
‘‘(II) a description of the method-
ology used to establish such metrics;’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘date of the enactment 
of this section’’ and insert ‘‘date of the en-
actment of the DHS Joint Task Forces Re-
authorization Act of 2022’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘mission, strategic 
goals, objectives, and’’ before ‘‘metrics’’; and 
(iii) by striking the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by amending subparagraph (C) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(C) not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of the DHS Joint Task Forces 
Reauthorization Act of 2022 and annually there-
after, submit to the committees specified in sub-
paragraph (B) a report that contains informa-
tion on the progress in implementing the out-
come-based and other appropriate performance 
metrics established pursuant to subparagraph 
(A)(iii).’’; 
(3) in paragraph (11)— 
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(A) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘OR TERMI-
NATION’’ after ‘‘FORMATION’’; and 
(B) by amending subparagraph (A) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
before establishing or terminating a Joint Task 
Force under this subsection, the Secretary shall 
submit to the majority leader of the Senate, the 
minority leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, the majority leader of 
the House of Representatives, the minority leader 
of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and the Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate a notification re-
garding such establishment or termination, as 
the case may be. The contents of any such notifi-
cation shall include the following: 
‘‘(i) The criteria and conditions re-
quired to establish or terminate such Joint 
Task Force. 
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‘‘(ii) The primary mission, strategic 
goals, objectives, and plan of operations of 
such Joint Task Force. 
‘‘(iii) If such notification is a notifica-
tion of termination, information on the ef-
fectiveness of such Joint Task Force as 
measured by the outcome-based performance 
metrics and other appropriate performance 
metrics established pursuant to paragraph 
(9)(A)(iii). 
‘‘(iv) The funding and resources re-
quired to establish or terminate such Joint 
Task Force. 
‘‘(v) The number of personnel perma-
nently assigned to such Joint Task Force 
from each component and office. 
‘‘(vi) The number of personnel assigned 
on a temporary basis to such Joint Task 
Force from each component and office. 
‘‘(vii) If such notification is a notifica-
tion of establishment, the anticipated costs 
of establishing and operating such Joint 
Task Force. 
‘‘(viii) If such notification is a notifi-
cation of termination, funding allocated in 
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the immediately preceding fiscal year to 
such Joint Task Force for— 
‘‘(I) operations notwithstanding 
such termination; and 
‘‘(II) activities associated with 
such termination. 
‘‘(ix) The anticipated establishment or 
termination date of such Joint Task Force, 
as the case may be.’’; 
(4) in paragraph (12)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘January 31, 2018, and 
January 31, 2021, the Inspector General of 
the Department’’ and inserting ‘‘one year 
after the date of the enactment of the DHS 
Joint Task Forces Reauthorization Act of 
2022, the Comptroller General of the United 
States’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘an assessment of the 
effectiveness of the Secretary’s utilization of 
the authority provided under this section for 
the purposes set forth in subsection (b)(2) as 
among the range of options available to the 
Secretary to conduct joint operations among 
departmental components and offices and’’ 
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before ‘‘a review of the Joint Task Forces’’; 
and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) in the matter preceding clause (i), 
by striking ‘‘reviews’’ and inserting ‘‘re-
view’’; and 
(ii) by amending clauses (i) and (ii) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(i) an assessment of methodology uti-
lized to determine whether to establish or 
terminate each Joint Task Force; and 
‘‘(ii) an assessment of the effectiveness 
of oversight over each Joint Task Force with 
specificity regarding the Secretary’s utiliza-
tion of outcome-based or other appropriate 
performance metrics established pursuant to 
paragraph (9)(A)(iii) to evaluate the effec-
tiveness of each Joint Task Force in meas-
uring progress with respect to the mission, 
strategic goals, and objectives established 
pursuant to paragraph (9)(A)(i) of such 
Joint Task Force.’’; and 
(5) in paragraph (13), by striking ‘‘2022’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2024’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 391 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8801 
[Report No. 117–545] 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 
establish stronger accountability mechanisms for 
Joint Task Forces, and for other purposes. 
OCTOBER 28, 2022 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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