H.R. 8805

[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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