US HB4034 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on November 17 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-11-30 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Secure Fence Restoration Act of 2015 This bill amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 with respect to construction of border fencing and road improvements to direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to complete the required 700-mile southwest border fencing and priority-area fencing by December 31, 2017. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 is amended to direct DHS, in consultation with state and local officials along the U.S.-Mexico border, to achieve operational control over U.S. international land and maritime borders by December 31, 2017. National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act Neither the Department of the Interior nor the Department of Agriculture may prohibit or restrict U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) activities on federal land under their respective jurisdictions within 100 miles of an international land border to: execute search and rescue operations; and prevent unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband through such border. CBP shall have access to such lands to conduct: (1) road and barrier construction and maintenance, (2) vehicular patrols, (3) surveillance activities, and (4) deployment of temporary tactical infrastructure.

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Title

Secure Fence Restoration Act of 2015

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History

DateChamberAction
2015-11-30HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
2015-11-23HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
2015-11-17HouseReferred to House Agriculture
2015-11-17HouseReferred to House Natural Resources
2015-11-17HouseReferred to House Homeland Security
2015-11-17HouseReferred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, 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.
2015-11-17HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

HB4391 (Related) 2016-01-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.

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