Federal

Title 6 — Domestic Security

569 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 255 — Report on improving enforcement functions
• § 256 — Sense of Congress regarding construction of fencing near San Diego, California
• § 257 — Report
• § 258 — Homeland Security Investigations Victim Assistance Program
• § 271 — Establishment of Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
• § 272 — Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman
• § 273 — Professional responsibility and quality review
• § 274 — Employee discipline
• § 275 — Transition
• § 276 — Report on improving immigration services
• § 277 — Report on responding to fluctuating needs
• § 278 — Application of Internet-based technologies
• § 279 — Children’s affairs
• § 291 — Abolishment of INS
• § 292 — Voluntary separation incentive payments
• § 293 — Authority to conduct a demonstration project relating to disciplinary action
• § 294 — Sense of Congress
• § 295 — Director of Shared Services
• § 296 — Separation of funding
• § 297 — Reports and implementation plans
• § 298 — Immigration functions
• § 301 — Fee agreements for certain services at ports of entry
• § 301a — Port of entry donation authority
• § 301b — Current and proposed agreements
• § 301c — Definitions
• § 311 — Definitions
• § 312 — Definition
• § 313 — Federal Emergency Management Agency
• § 314 — Authority and responsibilities
• § 314a — FEMA programs
• § 315 — Functions transferred
• § 316 — Preserving the Federal Emergency Management Agency
• § 317 — Regional offices
• § 318 — National Advisory Council
• § 319 — National Integration Center
• § 320 — Credentialing and typing
• § 321 — The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center
• § 321a — Evacuation plans and exercises
• § 321b — Disability Coordinator
• § 321c — Department and Agency officials
• § 321d — National Operations Center
• § 321e — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(c)(1) , Dec. 21, 2018 , 132 Stat. 5166
• § 321f — Nuclear incident response
• § 321g — Conduct of certain public health-related activities
• § 321h — Use of national private sector networks in emergency response
• § 321i — Use of commercially available technology, goods, and services
• § 321j — Procurement of security countermeasures for Strategic National Stockpile
• § 321k — Model standards and guidelines for critical infrastructure workers
• § 321l — Guidance and recommendations
• § 321m — Voluntary private sector preparedness accreditation and certification program
• § 321n — Acceptance of gifts
• § 321o — Integrated public alert and warning system modernization
• § 321o–1 — Integrated public alert and warning system
• § 321p — National planning and education
• § 321q — Coordination of Department of Homeland Security efforts related to food, agriculture, and veterinary defense against terrorism
• § 321r — Transfer of equipment during a public health emergency
• § 322 — Continuity of the economy plan
• § 323 — Guidance on how to prevent exposure to and release of PFAS
• § 331 — Treatment of charitable trusts for members of the Armed Forces of the United States and other governmental organizations
• § 341 — Under Secretary for Management
• § 342 — Chief Financial Officer
• § 343 — Chief Information Officer
• § 344 — Chief Human Capital Officer
• § 345 — Establishment of Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
• § 346 — Consolidation and co-location of offices
• § 347 — Quadrennial homeland security review
• § 348 — Joint task forces
• § 349 — Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans
• § 350 — Workforce health and medical support
• § 351 — Employee engagement
• § 352 — Annual employee award program
• § 353 — Acquisition professional career program
• § 361 — Office for State and Local Government Coordination
• § 371 — Repealed. Pub. L. 108–7, div. L, § 104(c)(1) , Feb. 20, 2003 , 117 Stat. 531
• § 381 — Functions transferred
• § 382 — Use of proceeds derived from criminal investigations
• § 383 — National Computer Forensics Institute
• § 391 — Research and development projects
• § 392 — Personal services
• § 393 — Special streamlined acquisition authority
• § 394 — Unsolicited proposals
• § 395 — Prohibition on contracts with corporate expatriates
• § 396 — Lead system integrator; financial interests
• § 397 — Requirements to buy certain items related to national security interests
• § 411 — Establishment of human resources management system
• § 412 — Labor-management relations
• § 413 — Use of counternarcotics enforcement activities in certain employee performance appraisals
• § 414 — Homeland Security Rotation Program
• § 415 — Homeland Security Education Program
• § 416 — Use of protective equipment or measures by employees
• § 417 — Rotational cybersecurity research program
• § 421 — Definition
• § 422 — Procurements for defense against or recovery from terrorism or nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack
• § 423 — Increased simplified acquisition threshold for procurements in support of humanitarian or peacekeeping operations or contingency operations
• § 424 — Increased micro-purchase threshold for certain procurements
• § 425 — Application of certain commercial items authorities to certain procurements
• § 426 — Use of streamlined procedures
• § 427 — Review and report by Comptroller General
• § 428 — Identification of new entrants into the Federal marketplace
• § 441 — Administration
• § 442 — Litigation management
• § 443 — Risk management
• § 444 — Definitions
• § 451 — Advisory committees
• § 452 — Reorganization
• § 453 — Use of appropriated funds
• § 453a — Additional uses of appropriated funds
• § 453b — Requirement to buy certain items related to national security interests from American sources; exceptions
• § 453c — Disposition of equines unfit for service
• § 454 — Future Years Homeland Security Program
• § 455 — Miscellaneous authorities
• § 456 — Military activities
• § 457 — Regulatory authority and preemption
• § 458 — Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement
• § 459 — Office of International Affairs
• § 460 — Prohibition of the Terrorism Information and Prevention System
• § 461 — Review of pay and benefit plans
• § 462 — Office of National Capital Region Coordination
• § 463 — Requirement to comply with laws protecting equal employment opportunity and providing whistleblower protections
• § 464 — Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers
• § 464a — Repealed. Pub. L. 111–245, § 2(b)(2) , Sept. 30, 2010 , 124 Stat. 2621
• § 464b — Staffing accreditation function
• § 464c — Student housing
• § 464d — Additional funds for training
• § 464e — Short-term medical services for students
• § 465 — Joint Interagency Task Force
• § 466 — Sense of Congress reaffirming the continued importance and applicability of the Posse Comitatus Act
• § 467 — Coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services under the Public Health Service Act
• § 468 — Preserving Coast Guard mission performance
• § 469 — Fees for credentialing and background investigations in transportation
• § 469a — Collection of fees from non-Federal participants in meetings
• § 470 — Disclosures regarding homeland security grants
• § 471 — Annual ammunition report
• § 472 — Annual weaponry report
• § 473 — Cyber Crimes Center, Child Exploitation Investigations Unit, Computer Forensics Unit, and Cyber Crimes Unit
• § 474 — Homeland security critical domain research and development
• § 475 — Transnational Criminal Investigative Units
• § 475a — Mentor-protégé program
• § 481 — Short title; findings; and sense of Congress
• § 482 — Facilitating homeland security information sharing procedures
• § 483 — Report
• § 484 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 484a — Reciprocal information sharing
• § 485 — Information sharing
• § 486 — Limitation of liability
• § 488 — Definitions
• § 488a — Regulation of the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate
• § 488b — Inspection and auditing of records
• § 488c — Administrative provisions
• § 488d — Theft reporting requirement
• § 488e — Prohibitions and penalty
• § 488f — Protection from civil liability
• § 488g — Preemption of other laws
• § 488h — Deadlines for regulations
• § 488i — Authorization of appropriations
• § 491 — National Homeland Security Council
• § 492 — Function
• § 493 — Membership
• § 494 — Other functions and activities
• § 495 — Staff composition
• § 496 — Relation to the National Security Council
• § 511 — Information security responsibilities of certain agencies
• § 512 — Construction
• § 513 — Federal air marshal program
• § 521 — Legal status of EOIR
• § 522 — Statutory construction
• § 531 — Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
• § 532 — Explosives Training and Research Facility
• § 533 — Transferred
• § 541 — Definitions
• § 542 — Reorganization plan
• § 543 — Review of congressional committee structures
• § 551 — Transitional authorities
• § 552 — Savings provisions
• § 552a — Savings provision of certain transfers made under the Homeland Security Act of 2002
• § 553 — Terminations
• § 554 — National identification system not authorized
• § 555 — Continuity of Inspector General oversight
• § 556 — Incidental transfers
• § 557 — Reference
• § 561 — Definitions
• § 563 — 5-year technology investment plan
• § 563a — Acquisition justification and reports
• § 563b — Acquisition baseline establishment and reports
• § 563c — Inventory utilization
• § 563d — Small business contracting goals
• § 563e — Consistency with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and departmental policies and directives
• § 563f — Diversified security technology industry marketplace
• § 565 — Maintenance validation and oversight
• § 571 — Emergency Communications Division
• § 572 — National Emergency Communications Plan
• § 573 — Assessments and reports
• § 574 — Coordination of Department emergency communications grant programs
• § 575 — Regional emergency communications coordination
• § 576 — Emergency Communications Preparedness Center
• § 577 — Urban and other high risk area communications capabilities
• § 578 — Definition
• § 579 — Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program
• § 580 — Border interoperability demonstration project
• § 590 — Definitions