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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4683 
To increase the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers 
and support staff and to require reports that identify staffing, infrastruc-
ture, and equipment needed to enhance security at ports of entry. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 23, 2025 
Mr. KENNEDY of New York (for himself and Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and 
Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To increase the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion officers and support staff and to require reports 
that identify staffing, infrastructure, and equipment 
needed to enhance security at ports of entry. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing America’s 
Ports of Entry Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTEC-
TION PERSONNEL. 
(a) OFFICERS.—Subject to appropriations, the Com-
missioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall 
hire, train, and assign not fewer than 1,000 new U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection officers above the current at-
trition level during every fiscal year until the total number 
of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers equals 
and sustains the requirements identified each year in the 
Workload Staffing Model. 
(b) SUPPORT STAFF.—The Commissioner is author-
ized to hire, train, and assign support staff, including 
technicians and Enterprise Services mission support, to 
perform non-law enforcement administrative functions to 
support the new U.S. Customs and Border Protection offi-
cers hired pursuant to subsection (a). 
(c) TRAFFIC FORECASTS.—In calculating the number 
of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers needed 
at each port of entry through the Workload Staffing 
Model, the Commissioner shall— 
(1) rely on data collected regarding the inspec-
tions and other activities conducted at each such 
port of entry; 
(2) consider volume from seasonal surges, other 
projected changes in commercial and passenger vol-
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umes, the most current commercial forecasts, and 
other relevant information; 
(3) consider historical volume and forecasts 
prior to the COVID–19 pandemic and the impact on 
international travel; and 
(4) incorporate personnel requirements for in-
creasing the rate of outbound inspection operations 
at land ports of entry. 
(d) GAO REPORT.—If the Commissioner does not 
hire not fewer than 1,000 additional U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection officers authorized under subsection (a) 
during fiscal year 2026, or during any subsequent fiscal 
year in which the hiring requirements set forth in the 
Workload Staffing Model have not been achieved, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall— 
(1) conduct a review of U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection hiring practices to determine the rea-
sons that such requirements were not achieved and 
other issues related to hiring by U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection; and 
(2) submit a report to the Committee on Home-
land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-
ate, the Committee on Finance of the Senate, the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives, and the Committee on Ways and 
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Means of the House of Representatives that de-
scribes the results of the review conducted pursuant 
to paragraph (1). 
SEC. 3. PORTS OF ENTRY INFRASTRUCTURE ENHANCE-
MENT REPORT. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Commissioner for U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection shall submit a report to the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate, the Committee on Finance of the Senate, the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Rep-
resentatives, and the Committee on Ways and Means of 
the House of Representatives that identifies— 
(1) infrastructure improvements at ports of 
entry that would enhance the ability of U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection officers to interdict 
opioids and other drugs that are being illegally 
transported into the United States, including a de-
scription of circumstances at specific ports of entry 
that prevent the deployment of technology used at 
other ports of entry; 
(2) detection equipment that would improve the 
ability of such officers to identify opioids, including 
precursors and derivatives, that are being illegally 
transported into the United States; and 
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(3) safety equipment that would protect such 
officers from accidental exposure to such drugs or 
other dangers associated with the inspection of po-
tential drug traffickers. 
SEC. 4. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) TEMPORARY DUTY ASSIGNMENTS.— 
(1) DEFINED TERM.—In this subsection, the 
term 
‘‘appropriate 
congressional 
committees’’ 
means— 
(A) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate; 
(C) the Committee on Finance of the Sen-
ate; 
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives; 
(E) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives; and 
(F) the Committee on Ways and Means of 
the House of Representatives. 
(2) QUARTERLY REPORT.—The Commissioner 
for U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall sub-
mit a quarterly report to the appropriate congres-
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sional committees that includes, with respect to the 
reporting period— 
(A) the number of temporary duty assign-
ments; 
(B) the number of U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection officers required for each tem-
porary duty assignment; 
(C) the ports of entry from which such of-
ficers were reassigned; 
(D) the ports of entry to which such offi-
cers were reassigned; 
(E) the ports of entry at which reimburs-
able service agreements have been entered into 
that may be affected by temporary duty assign-
ments; 
(F) the duration of each temporary duty 
assignment; 
(G) the cost of each temporary duty as-
signment; and 
(H) the extent to which the temporary 
duty assignments within the reporting period 
were in support of the other U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection activities or operations along 
the southern border of the United States, in-
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cluding the specific costs associated with such 
temporary duty assignments. 
(3) NOTICE.—Not later than 10 days before re-
deploying employees from 1 port of entry to another, 
absent emergency circumstances— 
(A) the Commissioner shall notify the di-
rector of the port of entry from which employ-
ees will be reassigned of the intended redeploy-
ments; and 
(B) the port director shall notify impacted 
facilities (including airports, seaports, and land 
ports) of the intended redeployments. 
(4) STAFF BRIEFING.—The Commissioner shall 
brief all affected U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion 
employees 
regarding 
plans 
to 
mitigate 
vulnerabilities created by any planned staffing re-
ductions at ports of entry. 
(b) REPORTS ON U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PRO-
TECTION AGREEMENTS.—Section 907(a) of the Trade Fa-
cilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 
4451(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and an as-
sessment’’ and all that follows and inserting a pe-
riod; 
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(2) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through 
(12) as paragraphs (5) through (13), respectively; 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(4) A description of the factors that were con-
sidered before entering into the agreement, including 
an assessment of how the agreement provides eco-
nomic benefits and security benefits (if applicable) 
at the port of entry to which the agreement re-
lates.’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (5), as redesignated, by insert-
ing ‘‘, including the locations of such services and 
the total hours of reimbursable services under the 
agreement, if any’’ after ‘‘the report’’. 
(c) ANNUAL WORKLOAD STAFFING MODEL RE-
PORT.—As part of the Annual Report on Staffing required 
under section 411(g)(5)(A) of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 211(g)(5)(A)), the Commissioner for 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall include— 
(1) information concerning the progress made 
toward meeting the U.S. Customs and Border Pro-
tection officer and support staff hiring targets set 
forth in section 2, while accounting for attrition; 
(2) an update to the information provided in 
the Resource Optimization at the Ports of Entry re-
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port, which was submitted to Congress on Sep-
tember 12, 2017, pursuant to the Department of 
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017 (divi-
sion F of Public Law 115–31); and 
(3) a summary of the information included in 
the reports required under subsection (a) and sec-
tion 907(a) of the Trade Facilitation and Trade En-
forcement Act of 2015, as amended by subsection 
(b). 
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