Homeland Security would dissolve as duties move to other departments

Federal safety duties would be divided among the Department of Community Safety and three other departments. Community Safety would oversee disaster response and cybersecurity. Transportation would handle TSA and Coast Guard duties, Treasury would handle customs duties, and Justice would handle immigration duties. The transfer provisions would preserve existing orders, pending applications, and lawsuits under their stated rules.

The Attorney General would release detained noncitizens and need an approval measure enacted into law before carrying out each deportation. Release would cover noncitizens detained by the Attorney General. Separate rules would cover people held under state or local immigration-enforcement agreements. Starting a removal or inadmissibility case would require approval from the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or someone acting in either role. State and local enforcement agreements would end at enactment, with immediate release of people held under them. Ankle monitors would be removed within six months, when their federal funding would stop. Immigration detention and monitoring contracts entered into by Homeland Security on or before enactment would end within two years.

Federal agencies could not hire private companies for domestic tracking, bulk personal-data collection, or public safety surveillance systems. The contracting ban would cover tracking people within the United States and systems such as facial recognition and public-space camera networks. The tracking definition excludes cargo tracking, routine government fleet monitoring, and traffic studies that cannot identify anyone. The surveillance-system definition excludes standard cybersecurity software, routine computer-system management, and internal administrative systems. The watchlist rule would apply to federal money for fiscal year 2027 onward, covering lists used to restrict civil liberties or require extra transportation screening.

Defense officials would close Guantánamo’s detention facility and release its detainees. Emergency economic powers would require approval enacted into law, with temporary exceptions. Release would cover everyone held at the Guantánamo facility when the bill becomes law. The economic rules would cover presidential powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Every detainee’s destination would require their informed written consent. People without a formal federal charge or conviction could choose their destination. Transfers to places where people face torture, arbitrary detention, or persecution would be barred. The facility would close within 60 days of enactment. Temporary transaction restrictions could last 30 counted days from an emergency declaration without approval, excluding days when either chamber is adjourned for more than three days. Transaction restrictions already active under earlier emergency declarations would expire after 180 days unless approval became law.

Community Safety would run service programs, award grants, and provide aid to communities harmed by Homeland Security enforcement. Programs would support stocked disaster hubs, violence survivors, and families harmed by immigration enforcement. Service-corps members completing a designated term would receive tuition help and federal hiring preferences; stipends would cover their service period. Homeland Security immigration-enforcement money not yet committed when the bill becomes law would return to the Treasury. Congress would need to approve later spending of that money on listed services, including health care, housing, and child care. The bill would authorize $250 million annually for community violence prevention; that authorization would still require funding approval.