ELO Realignment and Strategic Engagement Reform Act of 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill requires a DHS reorganization plan for the Engagement, Liaison, and Outreach Office. The plan must identify redundant or non-essential positions, programs, or functions; realign essential ELO personnel and functions into the Partner Engagement directorate of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis; establish communication protocols and centralized law-enforcement points of contact; improve information-sharing mechanisms; reduce duplicative outreach across DHS components; and add accountability and performance metrics. DHS must include cost-benefit analysis, staffing and reassignment plans, transition timelines, oversight mechanisms, future engagement recommendations, and assurance that state, local, tribal, and territorial partners retain intelligence support, convenings, and HSIN-INTEL access. DHS must certify within 60 days after implementation starts and report annually on progress, staffing, measurable outcomes, stakeholder feedback, and unresolved issues.
Who Benefits and How
Priority law enforcement agencies, state and local homeland security partners, tribal and territorial partners, DHS I&A Partner Engagement, and congressional homeland security committees benefit from clearer contacts, less duplicated outreach, and preserved intelligence support.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DHS ELO Office staff, DHS I&A, DHS component outreach teams, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and congressional homeland security committees must manage reassignments, transition timelines, certifications, annual reports, oversight, and continuity for SLTT partners.
Key Provisions
- Requires DHS to submit a 120-day plan for ELO reorganization and realignment into I&A Partner Engagement.
- Requires identification of redundant positions, programs, functions, staffing proposals, cost-benefit estimates, transition timelines, and oversight mechanisms.
- Requires continuity of intelligence support, convenings, and HSIN-INTEL access for state, local, tribal, and territorial partners.
- Directs DHS to certify implementation within 60 days after starting and submit annual progress reports for three years.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires DHS within 120 days to submit a plan to reorganize the Engagement, Liaison, and Outreach Office by moving essential functions into I&A Partner Engagement, reducing redundant outreach, and preserving SLTT intelligence-support continuity.
Key Policy Areas
Homeland Security, Government Operations, Law Enforcement
Primary Purpose
Requires DHS within 120 days to submit a plan to reorganize the Engagement, Liaison, and Outreach Office by moving essential functions into I&A Partner Engagement, reducing redundant outreach, and preserving SLTT intelligence-support continuity.
Policy Domains
Bill-wide scope
Identified Gains
- Priority law enforcement agencies
- State homeland security partners
- Local homeland security partners
- Tribal homeland security partners
- DHS I&A Partner Engagement
Identified Costs
- DHS ELO Office staff
- DHS I&A
- DHS component outreach teams
- Secretary of Homeland Security
- Congressional homeland security committees
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4398-4400)
Mr. Garbarino moved to suspend the rules and pass the …
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 640.
Reported by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 119-736.
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 27 …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
DHS ELO Office staff, DHS I&A Partner Engagement, Secretary of Homeland Security
Positive-direction: DHS I&A Partner Engagement
Negative-direction: DHS ELO Office staff, Secretary of Homeland Security
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "ELO"
- → Engagement, Liaison, and Outreach Office
- "I&A"
- → Office of Intelligence and Analysis
- "primary_beneficiaries"
- → Priority law enforcement agencies, State homeland security partners, Local homeland security partners, Tribal homeland security partners, DHS I&A Partner Engagement
- "primary_burden_bearers"
- → DHS ELO Office staff, DHS I&A, DHS component outreach teams, Secretary of Homeland Security, Congressional homeland security committees
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