US Congress House Bill 1561 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-4)
Status: Introduced on April 14 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-05-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .
Pending: House Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Putting Our Resources Toward Security (PORTS) Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, between FY2012-FY2016, to increase the number of full-time Customs and Border Protection officers, agriculture specialists, and border security support personnel for U.S. ports of entry by not fewer than 5,000, 1,200, and 350, respectively, above the number of such personnel for which funds were made available during FY2010.Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) for each of FY2012-FY2016 to make improvements to existing U.S. ports of entry to improve border security. Directs the Administrator to give priority to ports determined to be in most need of repair in accordance with required infrastructure assessment studies.

Putting Our Resources Toward Security (PORTS) Act

Rep. Silvestre Reyes [D-TX]	Rep. Joe Baca [D-CA]	Rep. Brian Bilbray [R-CA]	Rep. Ken Calvert [R-CA]
Rep. Francisco Canseco [R-TX]	Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]	Rep. Henry Cuellar [D-TX]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]
Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]	Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]	Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Michael McCaul [R-TX]	Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Ed Pastor [D-AZ]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Laura Richardson [D-CA]
Rep. Steven Rothman [D-NJ]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP]	Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-11	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .
2011-05-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
2011-04-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
2011-04-15	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
2011-04-14	House	Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2011-04-14	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2011-04-14	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-04-14	House	Referred to House Homeland Security
2011-04-14	House	Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1561/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr1561/BILLS-112hr1561ih.pdf