This bill became law on 2026-04-30 as Public Law No. 119-86.
The summary below describes the bill at the version we last reviewed; the enacted text may differ.
Now enacted as law, this measure funds the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the full 2026 budget year and separately closes out an earlier funding lapse. Division A is a complete DHS spending bill: it sets the year's budgets for Customs and Border Protection, the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, FEMA, the cybersecurity agency (CISA), immigration services, and the department's research and training arms. It puts $26.367 billion into the Disaster Relief Fund for major disasters, $684 million into local firefighter and fire-staffing (SAFER) grants, roughly $297 million into flood-risk mapping plus $175 million for flood mitigation, and $123.5 million into the emergency food and shelter program. The law also carries dozens of policy riders: it bars any new fee for crossing the land border, lets people bring a 90-day personal supply of prescription drugs in from Canada, blocks spending on a national identification card, limits certain domestic intelligence activity by DHS analysts, restricts the use of restraints on pregnant women in custody, and requires preserving and disclosing records of detainee deaths and abuse. A heavy oversight layer runs throughout - monthly border and detention estimates, a public FEMA disaster-spending dashboard, body-worn cameras for officers doing immigration enforcement, no airport-screening exemptions for senior officials, protected unannounced congressional inspections of detention facilities, and broad advance-notice rules before DHS moves money or makes large awards. Notably, the explanatory-statement amounts for "Border Security Operations" and for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are set to $0, and transfers into border-security operations are barred. Division B is the short piece originally summarized on its own: it extends the prior stopgap (Public Law 119-37) to the enactment date, treats the roughly February 14, 2026 funding gap as covered, guarantees pay and benefits for federal workers across every agency for the lapse period, and ratifies the obligations agencies took on during the shutdown to protect life and property.
Average Household Impact
- Disaster Relief Fund — $26.367 billion appropriated for major-disaster aid
- Firefighter and SAFER grants — $684 million for local fire staffing and equipment
- Flood-risk mapping — About $297 million funded for flood hazard maps
- Flood mitigation assistance — $175 million funded to reduce flood damage
- Emergency food and shelter program — $123.5 million for local food and housing aid
- Border-crossing fee — Barred; no new fee may be charged to cross the land border
- Personal drug imports from Canada — Allowed up to a 90-day personal supply
Civil Liberties
- Domestic intelligence activity by DHS analysts — Barred for certain covered activities
- National identification card — Funds barred from planning or developing one
- Restraints on pregnant detainees — Prohibited except in narrow safety cases
- Detainee access to incident records — Death and abuse records preserved and given to the accused
- Biometric collection at USCIS centers — Authorized to be supervised virtually
Transparency & Accountability
- Non-competitive award reporting — DHS must list sole-source grants and contracts for IG review
- Inspector General oversight — Quarterly and annual reports required on prior-law DHS funds
- Body-worn cameras — $20 million for officers doing immigration enforcement
- Airport screening for senior officials — No exemption allowed for Congress or agency heads
- FEMA disaster-spending dashboard — Public interactive dashboard required for reimbursements
- Monthly border and detention estimates — Required, independently validated, and reported to Congress
- Reprogramming notice to Congress — Required 30 days before moving funds between accounts
- Advance notice for large awards — Required before grants over $1M or contracts over $2M
- Congressional access to detention facilities — Unannounced oversight visits protected from interference
Congressional Summary
This bill provides continuing FY2026 appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through May 22, 2026. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and ends the partial DHS shutdown that began on February 14, 2026, due to a lapse in appropriations for DHS.The CR generally funds most DHS agencies and programs at the FY2025 levels through the earlier of May 22, 2026, or the enactment of the FY2026 DHS appropriations act.The bill also authorizes back pay, in accordance with current law, for federal employees who were affected by the partial DHS shutdown.Finally, the bill ratifies and approves certain obligations that were incurred during the partial DHS shutdown, including obligations incurred to maintain the essential level of activity to protect life and property and bring about an orderly termination of government functions.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Action Date
- 2026-04-02
- Date Added
- 2026-03-30
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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