Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act
Latest action · Apr 14, 2016 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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 1, 2016
- Passed HouseApr 13, 2016
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act
(Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of State to:
- develop open-source software based on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's global travel targeting and analysis systems and the State Department's watch listing, identification, and screening systems to facilitate the vetting of travelers against terrorist watch lists and law enforcement databases, enhance border management, and improve targeting and analysis; and
- make such software and any related technical assistance or training available to foreign governments or multilateral organizations for such purposes.
DHS and the State Department shall submit an implementing plan to Congress.
Before making open-source software available to foreign governments or multilateral organizations, DHS and the State Department shall: (1) certify to Congress that such availability is in U.S. national security interests, and (2) inform Congress on how such software or any related technical assistance or training will be made available.
No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act.
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 1, 2016 to Apr 12, 2016; 8 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-GA | Barry Loudermilk | Original | Feb 1, 2016 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne, Jr. | Original | Feb 1, 2016 |
| D-TX | Filemon Vela | Original | Feb 1, 2016 |
| R-NY | John Katko | Original | Feb 1, 2016 |
| R-TX | John Ratcliffe | Original | Feb 1, 2016 |
| D-CA | Loretta Sanchez | Original | Feb 1, 2016 |
| R-AZ | Martha McSally | Original | Feb 1, 2016 |
| R-TX | Michael T. McCaul | Original | Feb 1, 2016 |
| R-NY | Lee M. Zeldin | Feb 23, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Feb 25, 2016 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Feb 25, 2016 | |
| I-AZ | Kyrsten Sinema | Apr 12, 2016 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Feb 1, 2016Markup Feb 24, 2016 |
| Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee | Referred Feb 12, 2016Discharged Feb 17, 2016 | |
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred Feb 1, 2016Markup Feb 2, 2016Reported Apr 11, 2016 |
| Senate | Foreign Relations Committee | Referred Apr 14, 2016 |
Actions 15
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 14, 2016Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Apr 13, 2016Mr. Royce moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Apr 13, 2016Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1670-1672)
- Apr 13, 2016DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4403.
- Apr 13, 2016Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1670)
- Apr 13, 2016Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Apr 11, 2016Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 114-480, Part I.
- Feb 24, 2016Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Feb 24, 2016Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- Feb 17, 2016Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Discharged.
- Feb 12, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
- Feb 2, 2016Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Feb 2, 2016Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Feb 1, 2016Introduced in House
- Feb 1, 2016Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H1670–H1672Text printed H1670 | Brad Sherman D-CA, Edward R. Royce R-CA, Will Hurd R-TX | Apr 13, 2016 |
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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Apr 8, 2016H.R. 4403, Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on February 2, 2016
- Apr 8, 2016H.R. 4403, Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on February 24, 2016
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 162, no. 18, February 1, 2016, page H432.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2627 | Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act | Reintroduced Bill | Jun 27, 2017 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To authorize the development of open-source software based on certain systems of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State to facilitate the vetting of travelers against terrorist watchlists and law enforcement databases, enhance border management, and improve targeting and analysis, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 14, 2016Referred in Senate
- Apr 13, 2016Engrossed in House
- Feb 1, 2016Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
