[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4780 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4780

      To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a 
 comprehensive strategy for Department of Homeland Security operations 
                    abroad, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2016

 Mr. Thompson of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a 
 comprehensive strategy for Department of Homeland Security operations 
                    abroad, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Homeland Security 
Strategy for International Programs Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR VETTING 
              AND SCREENING PERSONS SEEKING TO ENTER THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 
to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate a comprehensive three-year strategy for international programs 
of the Department of Homeland Security in which personnel and resources 
of the Department are deployed abroad for vetting and screening of 
persons seeking to enter the United States.
    (b) Contents.--The strategy required under subsection (a) shall 
include, at a minimum, the following:
            (1) Specific Department of Homeland Security risk-based 
        goals for international programs of the Department in which 
        personnel and resources of the Department are deployed abroad 
        for vetting and screening of persons seeking to enter the 
        United States.
            (2) A risk-based method for determining whether to 
        establish new international programs in new locations, given 
        resource constraints, or expand existing international programs 
        of the Department, in which personnel and resources of the 
        Department are deployed abroad for vetting and screening of 
        persons seeking to enter the United States.
            (3) Alignment with the highest Department-wide and 
        Government-wide strategic priorities of resource allocations on 
        international programs of the Department in which personnel and 
        resources of the Department are deployed abroad for vetting and 
        screening of persons seeking to enter the United States.
            (4) A common reporting framework for the submission of 
        reliable, comparable cost data by components of the Department 
        on overseas expenditures attributable to international programs 
        of the Department in which personnel and resources of the 
        Department are deployed abroad for vetting and screening of 
        persons seeking to enter the United States.
    (c) Considerations.--In developing the strategy required under 
subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall consider, at a 
minimum, the following:
            (1) Information on existing operations of international 
        programs of the Department of Homeland Security in which 
        personnel and resources of the Department are deployed abroad 
        for vetting and screening of persons seeking to enter the 
        United States that includes corresponding information for each 
        location in which each such program operates.
            (2) The number of Department personnel deployed to each 
        location at which an international program referred to in 
        subparagraph (A) is in operation during the current and 
        preceding fiscal year.
            (3) Analysis of the impact of each international program 
        referred to in paragraph (1) on domestic activities of 
        components of the Department of Homeland Security.
            (4) Analysis of barriers to the expansion of an 
        international program referred to in paragraph (1).
    (d) Form.--The strategy required under subsection (a) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form by may contain a classified annex if the 
Secretary of Homeland Security determines that such is appropriate.
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