HR7347-119

What This Bill Does

This bill creates health-condition transparency and oversight rules for facilities where DHS detains noncitizens for immigration purposes, including competitively bid contract facilities, DHS-operated detention or housing sites, and temporary spaces holding a noncitizen for more than four hours. Within one year, each facility operator must maintain an internet-accessible, near-real-time system documenting reports of disease or injury, diagnoses, prescribed treatments, and treatment outcomes, with mandatory staff training and no facility exemption. DHS must also create, within six months, an anonymous multilingual complaint system through kiosks or toll-free hotlines. Retaliation complaints must be investigated within 14 days by DHS OIG or the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, and verified health concerns can trigger DHS review of facility operating agreements after a third complaint. The bill also requires annual DHS OIG health audits, full-time facility health-services liaisons, quarterly DHS public and congressional reports, and unannounced congressional oversight access.

Who Benefits and How

Immigration detainees, noncitizens in DHS custody, detainees with medical conditions, detainees with dental or mental health concerns, pregnant detainees, people needing menstrual care, trauma survivors, congressional overseers, and civil-rights monitors benefit from documented health data, anonymous complaint channels, anti-retaliation investigations, facility-level audits, and access rights.

Who Bears the Burden and How

DHS, ICE detention facility operators, contract detention providers, DHS OIG, the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, facility staff, health-services liaisons, and DHS reporting offices must build systems, train staff, process multilingual complaints, investigate retaliation, review contracts, audit health conditions, publish reports, and accommodate oversight visits.

Key Provisions

• Requires each DHS immigration-detention facility operator to maintain a near-real-time internet-accessible detainee health reporting system within one year.
• Requires DHS to create anonymous multilingual health-complaint reporting through secure kiosks or toll-free hotlines within six months.
• Requires DHS OIG or the Immigration Detention Ombudsman to investigate retaliation complaints within 14 days and allows verified health concerns to trigger contract review after a third complaint.
• Requires annual DHS OIG health audits, facility health-services liaisons, quarterly public and congressional reports, and access for Members of Congress or designated staff.