H.R. 547: Border Security and Responsibility Act of 2013

Introduced:
Feb 06, 2013 (113th Congress, 2013–2015)
Sponsor:
Rep. Raúl Grijalva [D-AZ3]
Status:
Referred to Committee

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Progress
Introduced Feb 06, 2013
Referred to Committee Feb 06, 2013
Reported by Committee ...
Passed House ...
Passed Senate ...
Signed by the President ...
Prognosis

10% chance of getting past committee.
2% chance of being enacted.

Only 11% of House bills made it past committee and only 3% were enacted in 2011–2013. [show factors | methodology]

Cosponsors
none
Committees

House Agriculture

↪ Conservation, Energy, and Forestry

House Armed Services

↪ Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities

House Homeland Security

↪ Border and Maritime Security

House Natural Resources

↪ Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs

↪ Indian and Alaska Native Affairs

↪ Public Lands and Environmental Regulation

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Full Title

To provide for the establishment of a border protection strategy for the international land borders of the United States, to address the ecological and environmental impacts of border security infrastructure, measures, and activities along the international land borders of the United States, and for other purposes.

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Last updated Feb 06, 2013.
18 pages

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2/6/2013--Introduced.
Border Security and Responsibility Act 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), the Secretary of Defense (DOD), and the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with tribal, state, and local officials, to submit to Congress a border protection strategy for the international land borders of the United States. Specifies strategy elements.
Amends the the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to revise international land border security provisions, including:
(1) eliminating existing southwest border fencing requirements;
(2) requiring that border control actions be in accordance with the border strategy required under this Act; and
(3) giving priority to the use of remote cameras, sensors, removal of nonnative vegetation, incorporation of natural barriers, additional manpower, unmanned aerial vehicles, or other low impact border enforcement techniques.
Prohibits construction of border fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, sensors, or other tactical infrastructure prior to 90 days after such border strategy's submission to Congress. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, and the heads of appropriate state and tribal wildlife agencies, to implement a comprehensive monitoring and mitigation plan to address the ecological and environmental impacts of security infrastructure and activities along the international land borders of the United States. Specifies plan requirements.

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