Review - HR 2471, Division B, CJS Provisions – FY 2022 Spending

In this post, I am looking at Division B of HR 4241, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022. Division B is the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022. This equates with HR 4505 that was introduced in July of last year, but was never considered in the House.

As with most spending bills, the details of interest about the spending levels and program instructions from the House and Senate Appropriations Committees are found in the Joint Explanatory Statement (JES) for the Division. The JES acknowledges the program requirements of the Committee Report on HR 4505, and continues most of those requirements while adding some new instructions.

Spending

The table below shows the spending for FY 2022 for four agencies covered by Division B that are frequently mentioned in this blog. Each agency received more funding than they did in FY 2021, but less than the House proposed in HR 4505. There was no Senate bill introduced for this fiscal year to compare against.

Spending in 1,000s	HR 2471	Δ from 2021	Δ from HR 4505
BIS	$141,000	+$8,000	-$2,410
NTIA	$50,000	+$4,500	-$29,000
NIST	$1,230,063	+$195,563	-$139,007
NSF	$8,838,000	+$351,241	-$796,036

For more details on Division B cybersecurity issues, including new program instructions from the House and Senate appropriators, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/hr-2471-division-b-cjs-provisions - subscription required.