---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 315"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "315"
heading: "Functions transferred"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/315"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter V — National Emergency Management"
---

# §315. Functions transferred

- (a) **In general—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), there are transferred to the [Agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) the following:
  - (1) All [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) of the Federal [Emergency Management](/usc/6/701.md?p=7) [Agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2), including existing responsibilities for [emergency](/usc/6/701.md?p=6) alert systems and continuity of operations and continuity of government plans and programs as constituted on June 1, 2006, including all of its [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15), [assets](/usc/6/101.md?p=3), components, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities, and including the [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) of the Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) for Federal [Emergency Management](/usc/6/701.md?p=7) relating thereto.
  - (2) The Directorate of Preparedness, as constituted on June 1, 2006, including all of its [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9), [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15), [assets](/usc/6/101.md?p=3), components, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities, and including the [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) of the Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) for Preparedness relating thereto.
- (b) **Exceptions—** The following within the Preparedness Directorate shall not be transferred:
  - (1) The Office of Infrastructure Protection.
  - (2) The National Communications System.
  - (3) The National Cybersecurity Division.
  - (4) The [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9), [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15), [assets](/usc/6/101.md?p=3), components, authorities, and liabilities of each component described under paragraphs [(1)](#b-1) through [(3)](#b-3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 505, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(13), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1400; amended Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(f)(4), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5168.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 505 of Pub. L. 107–296 was renumbered section 518 and is classified to section 321g of this title.

### Amendments

2018—Subsec. (b)(4), (5). Pub. L. 115–387 redesignated par. (5) as (4), substituted “(1) through (3)” for “(1) through (4)”, and struck out former par. (4) which read as follows: “The Office of the Chief Medical Officer.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Mar. 31, 2007, see section 614(b)(3) of Pub. L. 109–295, set out as a note under section 701 of this title.

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see former section 313(1) and sections 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of this title and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of this title.