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HR 4780 114th Congress House Emergency Management Border security and unlawful immigration Congressional oversight Department of Homeland Security International organizations and cooperation

Department of Homeland Security Strategy for International Programs Act

Introduced: March 17, 2016 Introduced by: Thompson, Bennie G. Democratic · Mississippi See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 13 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 17, 2016
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
May 16, 2016
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
May 16, 2016
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2411-2412)
May 16, 2016
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2411-2412)
May 16, 2016
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4780.
May 16, 2016
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2411-2413)
May 16, 2016
Mr. Ratcliffe moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
May 13, 2016
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 439.
May 13, 2016
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 114-566.
Mar 23, 2016
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Mar 23, 2016
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Mar 17, 2016
Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Mar 17, 2016
Introduced in House
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(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on May 13, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Department of Homeland Security Strategy for International Programs Act

(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit a comprehensive three-year strategy for international programs in which DHS personnel and resources are deployed abroad for vetting and screening persons seeking to enter the United States.

The strategy shall include:

  • specific risk-based goals for such programs;
  • a risk-based method for determining whether to establish new international programs in new locations, given resource constraints, or expand existing international programs;
  • alignment with the highest DHS-wide and government-wide strategic priorities of resource allocations on such programs; and
  • a common reporting framework for the submission of reliable, comparable cost data by DHS components on overseas expenditures attributable to such programs.

In developing the strategy, DHS shall consider:

  • information on existing operations of DHS programs that includes corresponding information for each location in which each such program operates,
  • analysis of the impact of each such international program on domestic activities of DHS components,
  • the number of DHS personnel deployed to each location at which such an international program is in operation during the current and preceding fiscal year, and
  • analysis of barriers to the expansion of such an international program.
What's happening now May 17, 2016

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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