It compares the President's request for FY2015 funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the enacted FY2014 appropriations for DHS, the House- and Senate-reported homeland security appropriations measures for FY2015, and the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 ( P.L. March 4-11, 2014—President's FY2015 Budget Request Submitted

For FY2015, the Administration requested $38.332 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority for DHS, as part of an overall budget request of $60.919 billion (including fees, trust funds and other funding that is not appropriated or does not score against the budget caps). This request amounts to a $0.938 billion (2.4%) decrease below the $39.270 billion enacted for FY2014 through Division F of P.L. The Senate bill as approved by the committee would have provided a net discretionary appropriation of $39,000 million for DHS for FY2015, not including $6,438 million for disaster relief and $213 million for Coast Guard overseas contingency operations that would be paid for by adjustments to the discretionary spending cap under the BCA. 124 , the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015, was introduced on September 9, 2014. This continuing resolution funded, with several specific exceptions and limitations, the operations of the federal government until December 11, 2014, or until full-year appropriations were passed, whichever was to come first. On September 19, 2014, the President signed it into law as P.L. 113-164 . 83 , the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, was signed into law on December 16, 2014. Consequently, Division L of H.R. 240 , an annual appropriations bill that would have provided DHS $39.7 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority was introduced by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rogers on January 9, 2015. After adopting these five amendments, the bill passed the House on January 14, 2015, by a vote of 236-191. February 27, 2015—Senate and House Extend Continuing Resolution

On February 27, 2015, a three-week extension of the continuing resolution funding DHS ( H.J.Res. March 3, 2015—House Agrees to the Senate Amendment

On March 3, 2015, the House voted 257-167 to approve the Senate version of H.R. 240 . Information on the House-reported FY2015 DHS Appropriations bill is from H.R. It presents a comparison of the Administration's FY2015 budget request, showing the discretionary appropriations, mandatory appropriations, and adjustments under the Budget Control Act, in the context of the total amount of budgetary resources available to DHS, as well as other non-appropriated resources. 114-4 also included $213 million in overseas contingency operations funding for the Coast Guard. This amount, requested by the administration after the House Appropriations Committee had marked up H.R. 114-4 included $6,438 million for disaster relief as the Administration requested. Like the House-reported bill, the Senate-reported bill and report recommended structuring the grant programs as they were in the FY2014 DHS appropriations bill. The committee-reported bills and P.L. This matched the FY2014 level as well as the House Appropriations Committee level. In addition, the Senate committee report contained a section on wildfire mitigation.
This report analyzes the FY2015 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). While this report makes note of many budgetary resources provided to DHS, its primary focus is on funding approved by Congress through the appropriations process.
The Administration requested $38.332 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority for DHS for FY2015, as part of an overall budget of $60.919 billion (including fees, trust funds, and other funding that is not appropriated or does not score against the budget caps). The request amounted to a $0.938 billion, or 2.4%, decrease from the $39.270 billion enacted through the consolidated appropriations act for FY2014 (P.L. 112-74).
In addition, the Administration requested an additional $6.438 billion not reflected above for FEMA in disaster relief funding as defined by the Budget Control Act (BCA).
On June 11, 2014, the House Appropriations Committee marked up its draft Homeland Security Appropriations bill, and voted to report it out of committee. The House committee-reported bill provided $39.220 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority, as well as the requested disaster relief funding.
On June 26, 2014, the Senate Appropriations Committee marked up its draft Homeland Security Appropriations bill, and voted to report it out of committee. The Senate committee-reported bill provided $39.000 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority, as well as the requested disaster relief funding, and $213 million for Coast Guard overseas contingency operations.
On September 19, 2014, the President signed H.J.Res. 124, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015, into law as P.L. 113-164. This continuing resolution originally funded the operations of the federal government at the current annual rate until December 11, 2014, or until full-year appropriations were passed, whichever came first. It has been extended by three other short-term continuing resolutions, including Division L of H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, which extended funding for DHS through February 27, 2015.
With the beginning of the 114th Congress, both House- and Senate-reported FY2015 annual homeland security appropriations bills were no longer available for action. H.R. 240, a new FY2015 annual homeland security appropriations bill, was introduced on January 9, 2015, and considered in the House the following week under a structured rule that allowed five immigration policy-related amendments. After adopting these five amendments, the bill passed the House on January 14, 2015. On February 27, the Senate passed an amended H.R. 240 without the legislative text added by the House amendments.
After the House did not pass a three-week extension of the continuing resolution, the Senate and House passed a one week extension of the continuing resolution to avoid a lapse in annual appropriations for DHS. On March 3, 2015, the House voted to approve the Senate version of H.R. 240. The bill was signed into law on March 4, 2015, as P.L. 114-4.
As enacted, the bill provided $39.670 billion in adjusted net discretionary budget authority, as well as the requested $6.438 billion in disaster relief funding and $213 million for Coast Guard overseas contingency operations, for total adjustments under the BCA of $6.651 billion.