Bill Details
HR.816 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
Introduced Date
2025-01-28
Policy Area
Immigration
Committees
View committees (2)
Sponsors
Cosponsors
View cosponsors (10)
- Rep. Haridopolos, Mike [R-Florida-8]
- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-New York-24]
- Rep. Weber, Randy K. Sr. [R-Texas-14]
- Rep. Van Drew, Jefferson [R-New Jersey-2]
- Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-South Carolina-2]
- Rep. McDowell, Addison P. [R-North Carolina-6]
- Rep. McGuire, John J. [R-Virginia-5]
- Rep. Messmer, Mark B. [R-Indiana-8]
- Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-Indiana-2]
- Rep. Stutzman, Marlin A. [R-Indiana-3]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would create a new government fund to pay for building and maintaining physical barriers along the U.S. southern border. It would move any unused money left in the Coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds into this new account, and the Department of Homeland Security would use that money for border wall construction and upkeep.
- Creates a separate Treasury account called the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund.
- Transfers all remaining, unused money from the coronavirus state and local recovery funds into that account.
- Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to use the money to build and maintain physical barriers along the southern international border.
Official Summaries
Build the Wall Act of 2025
This bill establishes the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund to be used by the Department of Homeland Security to construct and maintain physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. All unobligated amounts in the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds must be immediately deposited in the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 816 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 816
To establish the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund and to transfer
unobligated amounts from the Coronavirus State and local fiscal
recovery funds to such Fund to construct and maintain physical barriers
along the southern border.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 28, 2025
Mr. Shreve introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, 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 the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund and to transfer
unobligated amounts from the Coronavirus State and local fiscal
recovery funds to such Fund to construct and maintain physical barriers
along the southern border.
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 ``Build the Wall Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. SOUTHERN BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION FUND.
(a) Establishment.--There is established in the general fund of the
Treasury a separate account, which shall be known as the ``Southern
Border Wall Construction Fund'' (referred to in this section as the
``Fund'').
(b) Deposits.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there
shall be immediately deposited into the Fund all of the unobligated
amounts in the Coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds
established under sections 602 and 603 of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 802 and 803).
(c) Use of Funds.--Amounts in the Fund shall be used by the
Secretary of Homeland Security to construct and maintain physical
barriers along the southern international border of the United States.
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