To require ports of entry along the northern border to remain open as many hours per day as they were open prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4961 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4961

 To require ports of entry along the northern border to remain open as 
  many hours per day as they were open prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2023

 Mr. Armstrong (for himself, Mr. Fulcher, Mrs. Rodgers of Washington, 
Mr. Zinke, and Mr. Rosendale) 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 require ports of entry along the northern border to remain open as 
  many hours per day as they were open prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

SECTION 1. MINIMUM HOURS OF OPERATION FOR PORTS OF ENTRY ALONG THE 
              NORTHERN BORDER.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner of 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall ensure that the operating 
hours of all United States ports of entry located on the border between 
the United States and Canada are equal to or greater than the operating 
hours in effect immediately before the declaration of a public health 
emergency pursuant to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247d) as a result of confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus 
(COVID-19).
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