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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8805 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8805
To provide supplemental payments to Federal personnel performing
immigration enforcement operations, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 13, 2026
Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To provide supplemental payments to Federal personnel performing
immigration enforcement operations, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Increased Compensation for
Enforcement and Federal Retention for Officers in Strategic Theaters
Act'' or the ``ICE FROST Act''.
SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.
(a) In General.--Each covered employee shall be paid a supplemental
payment equal to 25 percent of the employee's annual rate of basic pay.
(b) Hazardous Duty Supplemental Payment.--
(1) In general.--Each covered employee serving in a
hazardous duty area, as determined under paragraph (2), shall
be paid, in addition to any payment under subsection (a), a
supplemental payment equal to 15 percent of the employee's
annual rate of basic pay.
(2) Designation.--
(A) In general.--The following geographic areas
shall be designated as hazardous duty areas:
(i) Chicago-Naperville Consolidated
Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(ii) Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor Consolidated
Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(iii) Los Angeles-Long Beach Consolidated
Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(iv) Memphis-Forrest City Consolidated
Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(v) Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington,
Minnesota, Consolidated Metropolitan
Statistical Area.
(vi) New York-Newark Consolidated
Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(vii) San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland
Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(viii) St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington
Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(ix) Washington-Baltimore-Arlington
Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(x) Any other statistical area determined
by the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management, in coordination with the Secretary
of Homeland Security and the Attorney General,
meets criteria for elevated risk to covered
employees under subparagraph (B).
(B) Other areas.--An area may be designated under
paragraph (2)(A)(x) if such area presents an elevated
risk to covered employees based on 1 or more of the
following factors:
(i) Violent crime levels.
(ii) Increased presence of transnational
criminal organizations.
(iii) Significant concentration of aliens
unlawfully present in the United States.
(iv) Documented incidents of assaults,
interference, or threats directed to covered
employees.
(v) Any other factor the Director, the
Secretary, or the Attorney General determines
is an elevated risk to covered employees.
(3) Review and termination.--The Director, in consultation
with the Secretary and the Attorney General, shall--
(A) review each designation under paragraph (2) not
less than annually; and
(B) terminate any designation under such paragraph
that no longer meets the criteria under subparagraph
(2)(B).
(c) Application.--The supplemental payments under this section
shall--
(1) with respect to any supplemental payment under
subsection (a), be paid as a lump-sum on the first day of the
first pay period beginning on or after the date of the
enactment of this Act and annually thereafter;
(2) with respect to any supplemental payment under
subsection (b)(2)(A), be paid as a lump-sum on the first day of
the first pay period beginning on or after the date of the
enactment of this Act and annually thereafter until the
designation is terminated under subsection (b)(3)(B);
(3) with respect to a supplemental payment for any area
designated after the date of the enactment of this Act under
subsection (b)(2)(B), be paid as a lump-sum on the first day of
the first pay period beginning on or after the date of such
designation and annually thereafter until the designation is
terminated under subsection (b)(3)(B);
(4) be in addition to a covered employee's rate of basic
pay and any other allowance, differential, bonus, award, or
other similar cash payment; and
(5) with respect to the application of section 5307 of
title 5, United States Code, not be counted as part of the
aggregate compensation of the covered employee.
(d) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``covered employee'' means a law enforcement
officer performing immigration enforcement operations (defined
as the identification, apprehension, arrest, detention, or
removal of aliens unlawfully present in the United States in
violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101
et seq.));
(2) the term ``Director'' means the Director of the Office
of Personnel Management;
(3) the term ``law enforcement officer'' has the meaning
given such term in section 5541(3) of title 5, United States
Code;
(4) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Homeland
Security;
(5) the term ``transnational criminal organization'' means
a group of persons that includes 1 or more foreign persons that
engages in or facilitates an ongoing pattern of serious
criminal activity involving the jurisdictions of at least 2
foreign states, or 1 foreign state and the United States, and
that threatens the national security, foreign policy, or
economy of the United States; and
(6) the term ``violent crime'' has the meaning given the
term ``crime of violence'' in section 16 of title 18, United
States Code.
SECTION 3. IMPOSITION OF SURCHARGE ON CERTAIN REMITTANCE TRANSFERS.
(a) In General.--Section 4475(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 is amended by striking ``equal to 1 percent'' and all that
follows, and inserting the following: ``equal to the sum of--
``(1) 1 percent of the amount of such transfer, plus
``(2) the specified surcharge (if any) with respect to such
transfer.''.
(b) Specified Surcharge Defined.--Section 4475(e) of such Code is
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(4) Specified surcharge.--
``(A) In general.--The term `specified surcharge'
means, with respect to any remittance transfer--
``(i) in the case of the designated
recipient of such transfer being located in a
specified foreign country, an amount equal to
$199,
``(ii) in the case of the designated
recipient of such transfer being located in a
foreign country with respect to which the visa
overstay rate (as defined in section
217(c)(8)(C)(ii) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act) exceeds 2 percent, an amount
equal to $99, and
``(iii) in the case of both clauses (i) and
(ii) applying, the sum of the amounts described
in such clauses.
``(B) Specified foreign country.--For purposes of
subparagraph (A), the term `specified foreign country'
means Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo,
Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, or Yemen.''.
(c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 4475(e)(1) of such Code is
amended by inserting ```designated recipient','' after ``The terms''.
(d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall
apply to transfers made after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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