S 2538
114th Congress
Senate
Immigration
Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Immigration status and procedures
Law enforcement officers
Motor vehicles
ICE Agent Support Act of 2016
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 10, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb 10, 2016
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
ICE Agent Support Act of 2016
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to refund out of the Immigration Enforcement Account the amount paid out of any appropriation for expenses incurred by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for:
- identification, investigation, apprehension, detention, and removal of criminal aliens, including providing staffing levels within the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
- maintenance and updating of systems used by the division to identify and track criminal aliens, deportable aliens, inadmissible aliens, and aliens illegally entering the United States; and
- purchase of firearms, vehicles, and other safety or apprehension equipment for the division.
DHS shall establish the percentage of positions within the division that shall be classified as a criminal investigator position.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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