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(b) CARIBBEAN
COOPERATION
INITIATIVE.—The 
Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the 
Secretary of State, shall engage with appropriate officials 
of the governments of the countries of the Caribbean to 
establish a program to assess the specific needs of such 
countries to address the unique challenges of maritime 
border security. 
(c) MEXICO’S SOUTHERN BORDER SECURITY INITIA-
TIVE.—The Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordina-
tion with the Secretary of State, shall engage with appro-
priate officials of the Government of Mexico to assess the 
specific needs to help secure Mexico’s southern border 
from undocumented aliens, drugs, weapons and other con-
traband. 
(d) REPORTING.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security 
and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate a report on the assessment of 
needs carried out under this section. 
SEC. 7. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN APPLICATIONS FOR PORT 
OF ENTRY STATUS. 
The Commissioner of United States Customs and 
Border Protection shall give priority consideration to an 
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application for port of entry status submitted by any com-
mercial airport if such airport served at least 100,000 
deplaned international passengers in the previous calendar 
year. 
SEC. 8. TRUSTED TRAVELER PROGRAMS. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security may not enter 
into or renew an agreement with the government of a for-
eign country for a trusted traveler program administered 
by United States Customs and Border Protection unless 
the Secretary certifies in writing that such government— 
(1) routinely submits to INTEPOL for inclu-
sion in INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Docu-
ments database information about lost and stolen 
passports and travel documents of the citizens and 
nationals of such country; or 
(2) makes available to the United States Gov-
ernment the information described in paragraph (1) 
through another means of reporting. 
SEC. 9. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE FOREIGN 
LANGUAGE AWARD PROGRAM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Congress established the Foreign Language 
Award Program (FLAP) to incentivize employees at 
United States ports of entry to utilize their foreign 
language skills on the job by providing a financial 
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incentive for the use of the foreign language for at 
least ten percent of their duties after passage of 
competency tests. FLAP incentivizes the use of more 
than two dozen languages and has been instrumental 
in identifying and utilizing United States Customs 
and Border Protection officers and agents who are 
proficient in a foreign language. 
(2) In 1993, Congress provided for dedicated 
funding for this program by stipulating that certain 
fees collected by United States Customs and Border 
Protection to fund FLAP. 
(3) Through FLAP, foreign travelers are aided 
by having an officer at a port of entry who speaks 
their language, and United States Customs and Bor-
der Protection benefits by being able to focus its 
border security efforts in a more effective manner. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that FLAP incentivizes United States Customs and 
Border Protection officers and agents to attain and main-
tain competency in a foreign language, thereby improving 
the efficiency of operations for the functioning of United 
States Customs and Border Protection’s security mission, 
making the United States a more welcoming place when 
foreign travelers find officers can communicate in their 
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language, and helping to expedite traveler processing to 
reduce wait times. 
SEC. 10. PROHIBITION ON NEW APPROPRIATIONS. 
No additional funds are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this Act and the amendments made 
by this Act, and this Act and such amendments shall be 
carried out using amounts otherwise made available for 
such purposes. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 28, 2014. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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