Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8734 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8734

To amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to require updates to 
 the northern border threat analysis and northern border strategy, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2024

Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. 
 Weber of Texas, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Zinke, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Kean of New 
 Jersey, Mr. Armstrong, Mrs. McClain, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mrs. 
 Fischbach, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr. 
 Newhouse, and Ms. Stefanik) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to require updates to 
 the northern border threat analysis and northern border strategy, 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 ``Northern Border Security Enhancement 
and Review Act''.

SEC. 2. NORTHERN BORDER THREAT ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY.

    (a) Northern Border Threat Analysis.--Section (a) of the Northern 
Border Security Review Act (Public Law 114-267) is amended, the matter 
preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act'' and inserting ``September 2, 2025, and annually 
thereafter''.
    (b) Northern Border Strategy Updates.--The Northern Border Security 
Review Act is amended by--
            (1) redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c) Northern Border Strategy Updates.--Not later than 90 days 
after each submission of the threat analysis required under subsection 
(a), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall update the Department of 
Homeland Security's northern border strategy. If the Secretary 
determines no such update is required, the Secretary shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report containing a 
justification relating thereto.''.
    (c) Classified Briefings.--The Northern Border Security Review Act, 
as amended by subsection (b), is further amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection:
    ``(e) Classified Briefings.--Not later than 30 days after each 
submission of the threat analysis required under subsection (a), the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide to the appropriate 
congressional committees a classified briefing regarding such 
analysis.''.
    (d) Implementation of Certain GAO Recommendations.--Not later than 
six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security, acting through the Executive Assistant 
Commissioner of Air and Marine Operations (AMO) of U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection, shall develop performance measures to assess the 
effectiveness of AMO at securing the northern border between ports of 
entry in the air and maritime environments.
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