H.R. 7744 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
H.R. 7744 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
Hearing Information
Meeting Announcement
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - 4:00pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
Video
Bill Text
Text of H.R. 7744 PDF
(as introduced)
Comparative Print PDF
Comparing the text of H.R. 7147, as engrossed in the House, and H.R. 7744
Joint Explanatory Statement PDF
(as printed in the Congressional Record on January 22, 2026)
Hearing Documents
Rule PDF
H. Res. 1095 PDF
H. Rept. 119-540 PDF
Rule Information
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 7-4 on March 3, 2026.
MANAGERS: Jack/Leger Fernández
1. Closed rule for H.R. 7744.
2. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
3. Provides that the bill shall be considered as read.
4. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill.
5. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective designees.
6. Provides one motion to recommit.
Amendments (click each header to sort table ▲▼ by that column)
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Version 1 | Cloud (TX), Moore (AL), Biggs (AZ) | Republican | Prohibits the Federal Reserve from studying, developing, or issuing a central bank digital currency. | Submitted |
| 2 | Version 1 | Fletcher (TX), Davis (IL), Moulton (MA), Johnson (GA) | Democrat | Prohibits any funds made available by this act from being used to hire ICE personnel or transfer federal employees to ICE. Similar to H.R. 7392 (119th Congress). | Submitted |
| 3 | Version 2 | Goldman (NY) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the use of funds by DHS to seize, collect, retain, or analyze voting machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under section 301 of the Civil Rights Act of 1960. | Revised |
| 4 | Version 1 | Moulton (MA) | Democrat | Reverses ICE funding increases enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and redirects those dollars to extend ACA healthcare premium tax credits. This amendment is substantively identical to H.R.7071 - Healthcare Reinvestment Act. | Submitted |
| 5 | Version 1 | Moulton (MA) | Democrat | Prohibits using funds from the Act to arrest, detain, or remove individuals who were previously granted TPS status and continue to meet the requirements for eligibility for TPS. | Submitted |
| 6 | Version 1 | Moulton (MA) | Democrat | Prohibits using funds made available by the Act to transport any non-citizen out of the state in which they were apprehended less than 10 business days after apprehension, and in no circumstances less than 3 days after they have had the opportunity to speak with a lawyer, unless the individual consents to a transfer. | Submitted |
| 7 | Version 1 | Salinas (OR), Tran (CA), Tlaib (MI), Leger Fernández (NM), Fletcher (TX) | Democrat | Amends section 2674 of the Federal Tort Claims Act to make the federal government civilly liable when a CBP or ICE officer violates someone's constitutional rights, creating a cause of action against the federal government and directing that any damages awarded in these cases must be first from H.R. 1. | Submitted |
| 8 | Version 2 | DeLauro (CT), Leger Fernández (NM) | Democrat | SUBSTITUTE Revised Replaces the text of the bill with the text of H.R. 7481, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026. | Revised |
| 9 | Version 1 | Hernández (PR) | Democrat | Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used to issue, implement, enforce, or carry out any policy, directive, guidance, or practice that conditions, delays, or requires additional approval for the obligation or disbursement of funds for major disaster or emergency assistance provided pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) based on a fixed dollar amount. | Submitted |
| 10 | Version 1 | Grijalva (AZ) | Democrat | Prohibits any funds made available by this Act to be used for carrying out immigration action or related activities on tribal lands unless prior consultation with the Indian tribe that administers those lands has occurred. | Submitted |
| 11 | Version 1 | Grijalva (AZ) | Democrat | Prohibits any funds made available by this Act to be used to create, maintain, support, or contribute to a list or database of individuals engaged in activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to enforcement of immigration laws. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 1 | Williams (GA), Larson (CT) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds for the deployment of any personnel to polling places, election offices, or other election administration sites. | Submitted |
| 13 | Version 1 | Moulton (MA) | Democrat | Prohibits using funds made available by the Act to detain any individual overnight, absent exigent circumstances, at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office that is not expressly designated and equipped as a long-term detention facility. | Submitted |
| 14 | Version 1 | Scholten (MI) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds to conduct immigration arrests, detentions, searches, or entries into private residences or non- public areas unless such action is carried out pursuant to a warrant issued by a Federal judge or magistrate judge. | Submitted |
| 15 | Version 1 | Amo (RI), Horsford (NV), Barragán (CA), Elfreth (MD), Tlaib (MI), Randall (WA), Kamlager-Dove (CA), Johnson (GA), Foster (IL), DeGette (CO), Fletcher (TX), Larson (CT), Pettersen (CO), Dexter (OR) | Democrat | Cuts ICE’s $75 billion funding increase and uses those funds to repeal some of the health care cuts in the Big, Ugly Law. | Submitted |
| 16 | Version 1 | Plaskett (VI) | Democrat | Eliminates regulatory restrictions preventing the U.S. Virgin Islands from accessing the H-2B temporary worker visa program. | Submitted |
| 17 | Version 1 | Stanton (AZ) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds to acquire, lease, or purchase any facility intended to be converted into an immigration detention facility unless the Secretary consults with appropriate local, State, and Tribal officials. Also prohibits the use of funds to plan, design, acquire, lease, renovate, retrofit, or convert a warehouse for use as an immigration detention facility unless the Secretary coordinates such action through the General Services Administration. | Submitted |
| 18 | Version 1 | Stanton (AZ) | Democrat | This amendment would transfer $20 million from ICE operations to CISA to provide cybersecurity assistance to states whose election information systems have been the target of a confirmed foreign cyber intrusion within the last two years. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 260
Motion by Ms. Leger Fernández to make in order amendment #8 to H.R. 7744, offered by Ranking Member DeLauro, which replaces the text of the bill with the text of H.R. 7481, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026. Defeated: 4–7
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 261
Motion by Mr. Jack to report the rule. Adopted: 7-4.