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H.R. 2638 (110th)

Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009

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Introduced

8 June 2007

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Became Public Law No: 110-329.

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7 April 2025

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Summary

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2008, for: (1) the Offices of the Secretary, the Under Secretary for Management, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Information Officer, the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, and the Inspector General; (2) Customs and Border Protection (CBP); (3) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including for the Federal Protective Service; (4) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), including for Federal Air Marshals; (5) the Coast Guard; (6) the Secret Service; (7) the Office of the Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs, the National Protection Planning Office, and the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (U.S.-VISIT) project; (8) the Office of Health Affairs; (9) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including for the U.S. Fire Administration; (10) Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS); (11) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (12) the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology; and (13) the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. Withholds specified funding until expenditure plans are submitted with respect to the Coast Guard's Deepwater acquisition program and the SBInet border technology and infrastructure procurement program. Requires the Secretary to obtain information monthly from every prison, jail, and correctional facility in the United States to identify incarcerated aliens who may be deportable and make every reasonable effort to remove such aliens judged deportable upon their release from custody. Prohibits the use of funds for deployment or implementation, on other than a test basis, of the Secure Flight program or other passenger prescreening program until specified requirements have been met. Directs: (1) the Secretary of DHS to research, develop, and procure new technologies to inspect and screen air cargo carried on passenger aircraft; and (2) TSA to utilize existing checked baggage explosive detection equipment and screeners to screen cargo carried on passenger aircraft to the greatest extent practicable at each airport and to report air cargo inspection statistics quarterly. Amends the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 to: (1) require chemical facility site security plans to be treated as sensitive security information; and (2) not preclude or deny the right of any state or political subdivision to adopt or enforce any chemical facility security regulation that is more stringent than one issued under such Act. Directs the Commissioner of CBP to establish a new classification for the CBP officer position that shall include eligibility for retirement benefits accorded to law enforcement officers. Prohibits funds from being used by CIS to grant an immigration benefit to any individual unless all required criminal history and other background checks have been completed.

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