This report presents an analysis of the discretionary appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2013 (FY2013). It compares the President's request for FY2013 funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the enacted FY2012 appropriations for DHS, the House-passed and Senate-reported DHS appropriations legislation for FY2013, and the final DHS appropriations legislation included in Division D of P.L. 113-6 . It tracks legislative action and congressional issues related to these bills with particular attention paid to discretionary funding amounts. The report does not provide in-depth analysis of specific issues related to mandatory funding—such as retirement pay—nor does the report systematically follow any other legislation related to the authorization or amendment of DHS programs, activities, or fee revenues. For FY2013, the Administration requested $39.510 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority for DHS, as part of an overall budget request of $59.032 billion (including fees, trust funds and other funding that is not appropriated or does not score against the budget caps). This request amounts to a $90 million (0.2%) decrease below the $39.600 billion enacted for FY2012. The overall estimated size of the DHS budget for FY2013 is $681 million (1.1%) below the budget of $59.713 billion estimated for FY2012. The Senate Committee on Appropriations reported its version of the FY2013 DHS Appropriations bill on May 22, 2012 by a vote of 27-3. This report uses Senate-reported S. 3216 and the accompanying report ( S.Rept. 112-169 ) as the source for Senate-reported appropriations numbers. The Senate bill as approved by the committee would have provided a net discretionary appropriation of $39,514 million for DHS for FY2013, not including $254 million for overseas contingency operations and $5,481 million for disaster relief that would be paid for by adjustments to the discretionary spending cap under the BCA. With those exclusions, the Senate-reported bill would have provided less than $4 million above the Administration's request, and $87 million (0.2%) below the amount provided under P.L. 112-74 . On June 7, 2012, the House passed H.R. 5855 with several amendments. This report uses House-passed H.R. 5855 and the accompanying report ( H.Rept. 112-492 ) as the source for House-passed appropriations numbers. After floor action the House bill carried a net discretionary appropriation of $39,114 million for DHS for FY2013. Several floor amendments used management accounts as offsets, leaving funding for those activities 27% below the requested level. Increases proposed above the committee-recommended level for DHS activities included Customs and Border Protection's Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology account, Coast Guard's Operating Expenses account, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Urban Search and Rescue Response activities and grant programs. The President signed H.J.Res. 117 into law as P.L. 112-175 on September 28, 2012. This public law was a continuing resolution (CR) that allowed for the federal government to continue operations in absence of regular appropriations through March 27, 2013, at an annualized rate of $1.047 trillion. It passed the House by a vote of 329-91 on September 13, 2012, and the Senate by a vote of 62-30 on September 22, 2012. On March 26, 2013, the President signed H.R. 933 into law as P.L. 113-6 , the FY2013 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act. Division D of that act is the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013, which includes $39.646 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority for DHS. According to Office of Management and Budget calculations, two across-the-board cuts unrelated to the March 1 sequestration that were included in the final legislation to ensure the bill complies with discretionary budget caps reduced the thet discretionary budget authority by $52.4 million. $38.348 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority from P.L. 113-6 was available for DHS to use after the impact of sequestration, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2013 Post-Sequestration Operating Plan. Data used in this report for FY2012 amounts are taken from the President's Budget Documents, as well as H.Rept. 112-492 and S.Rept. 112-169 from the 112 th Congress. Information on the FY2013 request is from the President's Budget Documents, the FY2013 DHS Congressional Budget Justifications , and the FY2013 DHS Budget in Brief. Information on the House-passed FY2013 DHS Appropriations bill is from H.R. 5855 and H.Rept. 112-492 , while information on the Senate-reported version of the same is from S. 2316 and S.Rept. 112-169 . Information on the continuing resolution is from H.J.Res. 117 . Information on the final resolution of FY2013 appropriations for the department comes from P.L. 113-6 and the accompanying Senate explanatory statement. Post-sequester funding levels are drawn from the U.S. Department of Homeland Se curity Fiscal Year 2013 Post-Sequestration Operating Plan dated April 26, 2013. Historical funding data used in the appendices are taken from the Analytical Perspectives volume of the FY2006-FY2014 President's Budget request documents. Except when discussing total amounts for the bill as a whole, all amounts contained in this report are in budget authority and rounded to the nearest million. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( P.L. 107-296 ) transferred the functions, relevant funding, and most of the personnel of 22 agencies and offices to the new Department of Homeland Security created by the act. Appropriations measures for DHS have generally been organized into five titles: Title I contains appropriations for the Office of Secretary and Executive Management (OSEM), the Office of the Under Secretary for Management (USM), the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Analysis and Operations (A&O), and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). Title II contains appropriations for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Coast Guard (USCG), and the Secret Service. Title III contains appropriations for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), Office of Health Affairs (OHA) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Title IV contains appropriations for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Title V contains general provisions providing various types of congressional direction to the department. The structure of the bill is not automatically symmetrical between House and Senate versions. Additional titles are sometimes added to address special issues: For example, the FY2012 House full committee mark-up added a sixth title to carry a $1 billion emergency appropriation for the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). The Senate version carried no additional titles beyond what is described above. Although the structure of the components in the proposed FY2013 appropriations bills were largely parallel, there were some differences in the structure of subcomponents and accounts which is noted throughout the body of the report. In general practice, the maximum budget authority for annual appropriations (including DHS) is determined through a two-stage congressional budget process. In the first stage, Congress sets overall spending totals in the annual concurrent resolution on the budget. Subsequently, these amounts are allocated among the appropriations committees, usually through the statement of managers for the conference report on the budget resolution. These amounts are known as the 302(a) allocations. They include discretionary totals available to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for enactment in annual appropriations bills through the subcommittees responsible for the development of the bills. In the second stage of the process, the appropriations committees allocate the 302(a) discretionary funds among their subcommittees for each of the appropriations bills. These amounts are known as the 302(b) allocations. These allocations must add up to no more than the 302(a) discretionary allocation and form the basis for enforcing budget discipline, since any bill reported with a total above the ceiling is subject to a point of order. 302(b) allocations may be adjusted during the year by the Appropriations Committee by issuing a report delineating the revised suballocations as the various appropriations bills progress towards final enactment. The FY2012 appropriations bills were the first appropriations bills that were affected by the Budget Control Act (BCA), which established discretionary security and nonsecurity spending caps for FY2012 and FY2013, and overall caps that will govern the actions of appropriations committees in both houses. For FY2013, the BCA had set a separate cap of $686 billion for security spending, defined to include the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Budget Function 150 for all international affairs programs, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Intelligence Community Management Account that funds the offices of the Director of National Intelligence. All other spending was capped at $361 billion out of the total of $1.047 trillion. In addition, the BCA allows for adjustments that would raise the statutory caps to cover funding for overseas contingency operations/Global War on Terror, emergency spending, and, to a limited extent, disaster relief and appropriations for continuing disability reviews and for controlling health care fraud and abuse. In the absence of a budget resolution for FY2013, these levels became the basis for enforcement in the Senate. In the House, the lower levels agreed to in the House-passed budget resolution ( H.Con.Res.