---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 453a"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "453a"
heading: "Additional uses of appropriated funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/453a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part H — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §453a. Additional uses of appropriated funds


In fiscal year 2004 and thereafter, unless otherwise provided, [funds](/usc/6/677a.md?p=5) may be used for purchase of uniforms without regard to the general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year; purchase of insurance for official motor vehicles operated in foreign countries; entering into contracts with the Department of State to furnish health and medical services to employees and their dependents serving in foreign countries; services authorized by [section 3109 of title 5](/usc/5/3109.md); and the hire and purchase of motor vehicles, as authorized by [section 1343 of title 31](/usc/31/1343.md): Provided, That purchase for police-type use of passenger vehicles may be made without regard to the general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–90, title V, § 505, Oct. 1, 2003, 117 Stat. 1153.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2004, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.