Official Summaries

Subterranean Border Defense Act

This bill requires recurring annual reporting by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on the implementation of a strategic plan to counter illicit cross-border tunnel operations. Currently, CBP is only required to report once no later than one year after the plan's development. 

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 495 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 495


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 11 (legislative day, March 10), 2025

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
   To require annual reports on counter illicit cross-border tunnel 
                  operations, 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 ``Subterranean Border Defense Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON COUNTER ILLICIT CROSS-BORDER TUNNEL 
              OPERATIONS.

    Paragraph (2) of section 7134(a) of the James M. Inhofe National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263; 6 
U.S.C. 257 note) is amended by inserting ``and annually thereafter'' 
after ``development of the strategic plan''.

            Passed the House of Representatives March 10, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.