Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5517 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5517

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

                           September 19, 2025

   Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Alford, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. 
   Lawler, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Crenshaw, Ms. 
Tenney, Mr. Zinke, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Van Drew, and Mr. Begich) 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, 2026, and 
biennially thereafter''.
    (b) Northern Border Strategy Updates.--The Northern Border Security 
Review Act is amended by--
            (1) redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (2) 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 notification 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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