ICE Security Reform Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires the core provision of the bill, exempts ensures continuity of legal authority during the transfer, and creates standard savings clause ensuring legal continuity during organizational restructuring. It relies on definition changes, appropriations, reporting requirements, and exemptions. The main policy areas are Homeland Security, Criminal Justice, Defense, and Finance.
Who Benefits and How
HSI agents and investigators could face fewer barriers and Victims of transnational crime could face reduced risk.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Office of Management and Budget would take on compliance duties, Department of Homeland Security would take on compliance duties, and Remaining ICE (Immigration Compliance Enforcement) could lose revenue opportunities.
Key Provisions
- Requires the core provision of the bill.
- Exempts ensures continuity of legal authority during the transfer.
- Creates standard savings clause ensuring legal continuity during organizational restructuring.
- Directs the transfer of personnel, property, records, and unexpended appropriations from ICE to the new HSI entity as directed by the OMB Director.
- Authorizes officials receiving transferred functions to delegate those functions to officers and employees within their office, with successive redelegation permitted.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill requires the core provision of the bill, exempts ensures continuity of legal authority during the transfer, and creates standard savings clause ensuring legal continuity during organizational restructuring.
Key Policy Areas
Homeland Security, Criminal Justice, Defense, Finance
Primary Purpose
The bill requires the core provision of the bill, exempts ensures continuity of legal authority during the transfer, and creates standard savings clause ensuring legal continuity during organizational restructuring.
Policy Domains
Whole Bill - HSI Separation from ICE
Identified Gains
- HSI agents and investigators
- Victims of transnational crime
Identified Costs
- Office of Management and Budget
- Department of Homeland Security
- Remaining ICE (Immigration Compliance Enforcement)
- Remaining ICE / Immigration Compliance Enforcement (losing shared assets)
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Garcia of California introduced the following bill; which was …
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
DHS financial management, Department of Homeland Security, Director of Homeland Security Investigations
HSI (receiving transferred assets), HSI agents and investigators, Other federal law enforcement agencies (FBI, DEA, ATF)
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_director"
- → Director of Homeland Security Investigations (new position) / Director of OMB (Sec. 8)
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the_attorney_general"
- → Attorney General of the United States
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Includes any duty, obligation, power, authority, responsibility, right, privilege, activity, or program.
Includes any office, administration, agency, bureau, institute, council, unit, organizational entity, or component thereof.
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