Border Security and Responsibility Act of 2013
Latest action · Mar 12, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 6, 2013
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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 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.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 4
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred Feb 6, 2013 |
| Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 12, 2013 | |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Feb 6, 2013 |
| Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittee | Referred Feb 28, 2013 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Feb 6, 2013 |
| Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee | Referred Feb 25, 2013 | |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Feb 6, 2013 |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Feb 15, 2013 | |
| Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Feb 15, 2013 | |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Feb 15, 2013 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 12, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
- Feb 28, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats & Capabilities.
- Feb 25, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
- Feb 15, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
- Feb 15, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
- Feb 15, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Feb 6, 2013Introduced in House
- Feb 6, 2013Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H414.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R43230 | Climate Change Legislation in the 113th Congress Archived | Report | Mar 12, 2014 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Border Security and Responsibility Act of 2013
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 6, 2013Introduced in House
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