Current law requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to administer polygraph examinations to nearly all applicants for law enforcement positions. S. 595 would broaden the criteria for waiving the polygraph requirement for certain applicants. Based on information from CBP, CBO estimates that implementing the bill would have no significant effect on the agency’s spending to vet applicants for law enforcement positions, because the expanded exemption would probably not affect very many people.
Enacting the legislation would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting S. 595 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.
S. 595 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments.
On May 12, 2017, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for H.R. 2213, the Anti-Border Corruption Reauthorization Act of 2017, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on May 3, 2017. The two bills are similar and CBO’s estimates of the budgetary effects are the same.
