This report describes and analyzes the discretionary appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2015 (FY2015). It compares the President's request for FY2015 funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the enacted FY2014 appropriations for DHS, the House- and Senate-reported homeland security appropriations measures for FY2015, and the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 ( P.L. 114-4 ). The first portion of this report provides an overview and historical context for reviewing DHS appropriations, highlighting various aspects including the comparative size of DHS components, the amount of non-appropriated funding the department receives, and trends in the timing and size of the department's appropriations legislation. The second portion of the report outlines the legislative chronology of major events in funding the department for FY2015. The third portion of the report provides detailed information on DHS appropriations, broken down by component, with discussion of associated policy issues. The report tracks legislative action and congressional issues related to DHS appropriations 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. Discussion of appropriations legislation involves a variety of specialized budgetary concepts. Appendix A to this report explains several of these concepts, including budget authority, obligations, outlays, discretionary and mandatory spending, offsetting collections, allocations, and adjustments to the discretionary spending caps under the Budget Control Act. The following descriptions reflect only the major actions taken on FY2015 homeland security appropriations. For a more detailed description of the procedural actions taken, see CRS Report R43776, Congressional Action on FY2015 Appropriations Measures , by [author name scrubbed]. For FY2015, the Administration requested $38.332 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority for DHS, as part of an overall budget request of $60.919 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 $0.938 billion (2.4%) decrease below the $39.270 billion enacted for FY2014 through Division F of P.L. 113-76 . The overall estimated size of the DHS budget for FY2015 is a $264 million (0.4%) increase above the budget of $60.655 billion estimated for FY2014. The House Committee on Appropriations reported its version of the FY2015 DHS Appropriations bill on June 11, 2014, by a voice vote. This report uses House-reported H.R. 4903 and the accompanying report ( H.Rept. 113-481 ) as the source for House-reported appropriations numbers and, for comparison, the underlying FY2015 budget request from the Administration. The House bill as approved by the committee would have provided a net discretionary appropriation of $39,220 million for DHS for FY2015, not including $6,438 million for disaster relief that would be paid for by adjustments to the discretionary spending cap under the BCA. With that exclusion, the House-reported bill provided $888 million (2.3%) above the Administration's request, and $50 million (0.1%) below the amount provided under Division F of P.L. 113-76 . The Senate Committee on Appropriations reported its version of the FY2015 DHS Appropriations bill on June 26, 2014, by a voice vote. This report uses Senate-reported S. 2534 and the accompanying report ( S.Rept. 113-198 ) as the source for Senate-reported appropriations numbers. The Senate bill as approved by the committee would have provided a net discretionary appropriation of $39,000 million for DHS for FY2015, not including $6,438 million for disaster relief and $213 million for Coast Guard overseas contingency operations that would be paid for by adjustments to the discretionary spending cap under the BCA. With those exclusions, the Senate-reported bill provided $668 million (1.7%) above the Administration's request, and $270 million (0.7%) below the amount provided under Division F of P.L. 113-76 . H.J.Res. 124 , the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015, was introduced on September 9, 2014. This continuing resolution funded, with several specific exceptions and limitations, the operations of the federal government until December 11, 2014, or until full-year appropriations were passed, whichever was to come first. The joint resolution passed the House on September 17, 2014, and the Senate on September 18, 2014. On September 19, 2014, the President signed it into law as P.L. 113-164 . After enactment of two short-term continuing resolutions, H.R. 83 , the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, was signed into law on December 16, 2014. The act included 11 of the 12 regular appropriations bills. Congress did not include full annual funding for DHS as part of the package. This was, in large part, due to a lack of consensus on how Congress would respond to the Obama Administration's announcement of immigration-related executive actions that had occurred the previous month. Some Congressional critics of the Administration's proposal believed annual appropriations for DHS should be used as the vehicle to respond to those actions. Consequently, Division L of H.R. 83 provided an extension of the FY2015 funding for DHS provided in P.L. 113-164 through February 27, 2015. H.R. 240 , an annual appropriations bill that would have provided DHS $39.7 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority was introduced by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rogers on January 9, 2015. The bill was not reported out of committee prior to floor consideration, but an explanatory statement serving the same function as a committee report was posted on the House Appropriations Committee website the same day the bill was introduced and printed in the Congressional Record for January 13, 2015. The bill was considered under a structured rule on January 13 and 14, 2015. Under the structured rule, five amendments were made in order. Two were "Sense of Congress" amendments, expressing views on aspects of the Administration's immigration policy. Three would have affected the availability of funds for certain purposes that were provided by H.R. 240 , as well as in any other act in any fiscal year (these appeared as Sections 579, 580, and 581 in the House-passed bill). The first of these three was an amendment that added a general provision that would restrict the use of any federal funds for carrying out the Administration's immigration initiative of November 2014, or implementing the direction in several memoranda on prosecutorial discretion and immigration enforcement priorities that were issued in 2011 and 2012. This amendment went on to state that the prohibition would extend to future similar policies, expressed that such policies would have no legal effect and that no funds may be used to grant any federal benefit to any alien as a result of those policies. The second of these three was an amendment to prohibit any federal funds from being used to consider new, renewal, or previously denied applications for temporary relief for removal under the deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) program. The third amendment would have required, through a restriction on the use of funds, that DHS treat aliens convicted of any offense involving domestic violence, sexual abuse, child molestation, or child molestation as being among the group of aliens that are the highest priority for deportation. After adopting these five amendments, the bill passed the House on January 14, 2015, by a vote of 236-191. The Senate proceeded to consider H.R. 240 on February 25, 2015. On February 27, 2015, the Senate adopted an amendment that was functionally the same as H.R. 240 as introduced—without the legislative text added by the five House amendments—by a vote of 66-33, then passed the Senate-amended bill by a vote of 68-31. On February 27, 2015, a three-week extension of the continuing resolution funding DHS ( H.J.Res. 35 ) did not pass the House by a vote of 203-224. Roughly three hours later, the Senate amended a House bill ( H.R. 33 ) to extend the continuing resolution through March 6, 2015, and passed the amended version by a voice vote. The House agreed to the Senate amendment by a vote of 357-60, and the President signed the bill into law as P.L. 114-3 that night. On March 3, 2015, the House voted 257-167 to approve the Senate version of H.R. 240 . On March 4, 2015, H.R. 240 was signed into law as P.L. 114-4 . Except in summary discussions and 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—however, for precision in percentages and totals, all calculations were performed using unrounded data. Data used in this report for FY2014 amounts are taken from the President's Budget Documents, as well as H.Rept. 113-91 , S.Rept. 113-77 , Division F of P.L. 113-76 , and the explanatory statement that accompanied it through the legislative process. Contextual information on the FY2015 request is generally from the President's Budget Documents, the FY2015 DHS congressional budget justifications, and the FY2015 DHS Budget in Brief. Information on the House-reported FY2015 DHS Appropriations bill is from H.R. 4903 and H.Rept. 113-481 . For consistency of budgetary comparisons, funding levels requested through the President's budget for FY2015 are also drawn from H.Rept. 113-481 unless otherwise noted.