Review - HR 2471, Division F – CISA Provisions – FY 2022 Spending

Division F of HR 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, is the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2022. As with most annual spending bills, the language is very formulaic and changes little (other than the actual financial numbers) from year to year. The meat of the spending bill is found in the Joint Explanatory Statement (JES) provided by the negotiators (essentially a conference committee) of the final language of the bill. The JES for Division F can be found here. The JES also reaffirms the provisions of the House Appropriations Committee report on HR 4431, the DHS spending bill introduced earlier this year.

The table below shows the spending for CISA in FY 2022. The ‘FY 2021’ numbers are the final approved numbers for last year. The ‘HR 4431’ numbers were those proposed in the standalone House spending bill. And the ‘Division F’ are those included in the final HR 2471 spending bill

($ in thousands)	FY 2021	HR 4431	Division F
CISA Total	$2,024,976	$2,422,348	$2,593,656
Operations	$1,662,066	$1,927,750	$1,992,527
Procurement, Construction	$353,479	$467,167	$590,698
Research and Development	$9,431	$7,431	$10,431

In addition to providing more details about the spending allocations, the JES provides additional congressional reporting requirements over those found in the Committee Report on HR 4431 and one new program is outlined.

For more details about the spending increase allocations and the reporting requirements for Division F, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/hr-2471-division-f-cisa-provisions - subscription required.