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Union Calendar No. 21 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1297 
[Report No. 115–41] 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to make technical corrections 
to the requirement that the Secretary of Homeland Security submit 
quadrennial homeland security reviews, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 1, 2017 
Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Homeland Security 
MARCH 16, 2017 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
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A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to make 
technical corrections to the requirement that the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security submit quadrennial home-
land security reviews, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Quadrennial Homeland 
Security Review Technical Corrections Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO QUADRENNIAL 
HOMELAND SECURITY REVIEW. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 707 of the Homeland Se-
curity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 347) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (D); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) representatives from appropriate ad-
visory committees established pursuant to sec-
tion 871, including the Homeland Security Ad-
visory Council and the Homeland Security 
Science and Technology Advisory Committee, or 
otherwise established, including the Aviation 
Security Advisory Committee established pursu-
ant to section 44946 of title 49, United States 
Code; and’’; 
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(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (2), by inserting before 
the semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘based 
on the risk assessment required pursuant to 
subsection (c)(2)(B)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘, to the extent prac-
ticable,’’ after ‘‘describe’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘budget plan’’ and in-
serting ‘‘resources required’’; 
(C) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘, to the extent prac-
ticable,’’ after ‘‘identify’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘budget plan required 
to provide sufficient resources to success-
fully’’ and inserting ‘‘resources required 
to’’; and 
(iii) by striking the semicolon at the 
end and inserting the following: ‘‘, includ-
ing any resources identified from redun-
dant, wasteful, or unnecessary capabilities 
or capacities that may be redirected to bet-
ter support other existing capabilities or 
capacities, as the case may be; and’’; 
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