What a yes vote endorsed
ELO Realignment and Strategic Engagement Reform Act of 2026
What this does
The bill directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a comprehensive plan, within 120 days of enactment, to reorganize and realign the Engagement, Liaison, and Outreach Office within the Department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The plan must identify redundant or non-essential positions and functions and move the office's essential functions and personnel into the Partner Engagement directorate of that office. It must also assure continuity of the intelligence support the office currently provides to state, local, tribal, and territorial partners. Until the Secretary submits the plan and certifies that implementation has begun, the Secretary may not expand the office's staffing, budget, or programmatic scope, or create new offices duplicating its mission without specific authorization from Congress.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 5 sourced claims
- The bill directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a comprehensive plan within 120 days of enactment to reorganize and realign the Engagement, Liaison, and Outreach Office within the Office of Intelligence and Analysis.Source: Sec. 2(a)
- The plan must identify redundant or non-essential positions, programs, or functions in the office and realign its essential functions and personnel into the Partner Engagement directorate of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis.Source: Sec. 2(a)(1)-(2)
- The plan must assure continuity of the intelligence support currently provided through the office to state, local, tribal, and territorial partners.Source: Sec. 2(b)(6)
- Until the Secretary submits the plan and certifies that implementation has begun, the Secretary may not expand the office's staffing, budget, or programmatic scope, or establish new offices duplicating its mission without specific congressional authorization.Source: Sec. 2(c)-(d)
- This is a single-subject measure whose only subject is the reorganization and realignment of the Engagement, Liaison, and Outreach Office.Source: Sec. 1-2
Reported lobbying
No organization named this measure in a lobbying filing we could read with confidence.
That is not a finding that nobody lobbied it. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, and a reference that could not be pinned to exactly one measure is refused rather than guessed. This bill may have been lobbied without being named, or named in words we would not risk reading as this bill.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.