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H.R. 6025 (112th): Mandatory Operational Control Reporting and Performance Measures Act of 2012
- Introduced:
- Jun 26, 2012 (112th Congress, 2011–2013)
- Sponsor:
- Rep. Candice Miller [R-MI10]
- Status:
- Died (Passed House)
The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. H.R. stands for House of Representatives bill.
- Full Title
To provide for annual reports on the status of operational control of the international land and maritime borders of the United States and unlawful entries, and for other purposes.
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- Text
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Last updated Nov 28, 2012.
3 pages
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Library of Congress Summary
The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
11/27/2012--Passed House amended.
Mandatory Operational Control Reporting and Performance Measures Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), as part of DHS's annual performance report, to submit annual reports to Congress on:
(1) the number of miles of the international land and maritime border between the United States and Canada and the United States and Mexico that are under operational DHS control, cumulatively and by sector; and
(2) the estimated number of unlawful entries between ports of entry along the international land and maritime borders of the United States during the period covered by the report, determined using all available sources of data.
House Republican Conference Summary
The summary below was written by the House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives.
This summary can be found at http://www.gop.gov/bill/112/2/hr6025.
Background
A 2011 GAO report stated that “Border Patrol reported achieving varying levels of operational control for 873 of the nearly 2,000 southwest border miles at the end of fiscal year 2010,” or 44 percent.
According to the bill’s sponsor, in 2010, the Department of Homeland Security stopped reporting to Congress on the number of miles under operational control as it considered developing an alternative metric to report on border security. Neither operational control statistics nor a new border security measurement system has been reported to the Congress since 2010.
Summary
The bill would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to Congress, as part of DHS’s Annual Performance Report, an update on the number of miles of the international land and maritime border between the United States and Canada and the United States and Mexico that are under DHS operational control. The bill would require the Secretary to report to Congress the estimated number of unlawful entries along the international land and maritime borders of the United States. The bill would also require the Secretary to make the data and methodology used to compile the statistics available to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Lastly, the bill would require the Secretary to use the same terminology and methodology as is used in the Department’s Annual Performance Reports for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2010, until an alternate terminology and methodology is required by an Act of Congress, or is certified as suitable and statistically valid by a Department of Energy national laboratory with prior expertise in border security.
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