No funds for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis to conduct a covered activity
Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, section 5, Sec. 5.
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No funds for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis to conduct a covered activity
The document says “may not”Who acts: Office of Intelligence and AnalysisHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a covered activity (as defined by section 6303 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (division F of Public Law 118-159)).”
Section 107(a). Money in this Act may not be used by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis to conduct what section 6303 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 calls a covered activity. That definition sits in Public Law 118-159, which is not indexed here. Subsections (b) and (c) provide that the section does not limit legal, privacy, civil rights or civil liberties oversight of the office, and does not stop it sharing intelligence with other governments, the private sector or other federal agencies.
What the document actually says
“None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a covered activity (as defined by section 6303 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (division F of Public Law 118-159)).”
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The department's intelligence office may not use this money for one kind of work. Another law says what that work is.
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The name of the barred work is set in a different law. That law is not indexed here. So this site does not say what it covers.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026., Public Law 119-86, sec. 5, 140 Stat. 774 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ86/html/PLAW-119publ86.htm
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“No funds for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis to conduct a covered activity,” Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026., section 5, Sec. 5. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/homeland-security-further-additional-continuing/proposal/sec05-sec107-intelligence-covered-activity-bar/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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