H.R. 1249 would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), within one year of enactment, to submit to the Congress a report on the department’s comprehensive strategy for acquisitions. The act would direct the Government Accountability Office to review that report within 180 days of its submission. Based on information from DHS and the cost of similar activities, CBO estimates that the reports required by H.R. 1249 would cost about $1 million in fiscal year 2018 and less than $500,000 in 2019; such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
Enacting the legislation would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 1249 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.
H.R. 1249 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments.
