Buy a Brick, Build the Wall Act of 2019

Buy a Brick, Build the Wall Act of 2019

This bill authorizes the Department of the Treasury to accept gifts of money for designing, constructing, or maintaining a barrier on the U.S. and Mexico border. Treasury shall establish a trust fund and website for that purpose.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 32 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 32

 To allow the Secretary of the Treasury to accept public donations to 
  fund the construction of a barrier on the border between the United 
               States and Mexico and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2019

Mr. Davidson of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Hice of 
    Georgia, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Norman, Mr. Mooney of West 
 Virginia, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Cloud, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. 
  Biggs, Mr. Perry, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Massie, Mr. Budd, and Mr. Buck) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow the Secretary of the Treasury to accept public donations to 
  fund the construction of a barrier on the border between the United 
               States and Mexico and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Buy a Brick, Build the Wall Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. BORDER WALL TRUST FUND.

    (a) Border Wall Trust Fund.--At the end of subchapter III of 
chapter 33 of title 31, United States Code, insert the following:
``Sec. 3344. Border wall trust fund.
    ``(a) Authority To Receive Gifts.--Notwithstanding section 3113, 
the Secretary of the Treasury may accept for the Government a gift of 
money on the condition that it be used to plan, design, construct, or 
maintain a barrier along the international border between the United 
States and Mexico.
    ``(b) Trust Fund.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury shall--
            ``(1) establish an account, to be known as the `Border Wall 
        Trust Fund', into which money received as gifts under this 
        section shall be deposited; and
            ``(2) create a publicly accessible website to receive such 
        gifts.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for chapter 33 of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end the 
following:

``3344. Border wall trust fund.''.
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