HR 7574
Passed a chamber
Requires the Homeland Security Secretary to submit a plan within 120 days for reorganizing the Engagement, Liaison, and Outreach Office and moving its essential functions into the Partner Engagement directorate of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis.
Official title: ELO Realignment and Strategic Engagement Reform Act of 2026
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
13-FEB-2026
Referred
13-FEB-2026
Approved by committee
24-JUN-2026
Reported
09-JUL-2026
On the calendar
09-JUL-2026
Passed
13-JUL-2026
Senate
Received
14-JUL-2026
- Requires a plan identifying redundant or non-essential ELO Office positions, programs, and functions, with cost-benefit estimates, staffing proposals, and a transition timeline.
- Realigns the essential functions and personnel of the ELO Office into the Partner Engagement directorate of I&A.
- Requires continuity of intelligence support and HSIN-INTEL access for state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, and a certification to Congress within 60 days after implementation begins.
- Bars the Secretary from expanding the ELO Office's staffing, budget, or scope, or creating duplicate offices, until the plan is submitted and implementation is certified.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (13-FEB-2026); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 13-JUL-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Homeland Security Committee (House)
- Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
Armed Forces and National Security
■ 2 D
2 Democrats