BOUND Act

Border Officers Utilization for National Defense Act of 2019 or the BOUND Act

This bill sets a minimum number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers that must be deployed along the border between the United States and Canada. The minimum number of officers is the maximum number of officers that were deployed along that border at any time between January 1, 2016, and the enactment of this bill.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4276 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4276

   To establish a minimum staffing level of U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection officials along the northern border, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 10, 2019

Mr. Higgins of New York (for himself, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Peterson, Mrs. 
   Rodgers of Washington, Mr. Welch, and Ms. Slotkin) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
  Security, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To establish a minimum staffing level of U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection officials along the northern border, 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 ``Border Officers Utilization for 
National Defense Act of 2019'' or the ``BOUND Act''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION STAFFING ALONG THE 
              NORTHERN BORDER.

    (a) In General.--Beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall 
ensure that not fewer than the maximum number of U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection officers deployed along the international border 
between the United States and Canada (referred to in this Act as the 
``northern border'') at any time between January 1, 2016, and such date 
of enactment are always deployed along the northern border, including 
at ports of entry along the northern border.
    (b) Limitation on Transfers.--The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection may not transfer any U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection officer away from an assignment along the northern border, 
including at ports of entry along the northern border, if such transfer 
would reduce the number of such officers assigned to the northern 
border below the level required under subsection (a).
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