IIB 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6368 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
To require the Department of Justice and the Department 
of Homeland Security to provide a joint report to Con-
gress on the Departments’ ability to track, investigate 
and quantify cross-border violence along the Southwest 
Border and provide recommendations to Congress on 
how to accurately track, investigate, and quantify cross- 
border violence. 
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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 ‘‘Border Security Infor-
mation Improvement Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. STUDY. 
(a) REPORT ON CROSS-BORDER VIOLENCE ON THE 
SOUTHWEST BORDER.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General 
and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly sub-
mit to the congressional committees set forth in subsection 
(b) a report on cross-border violence on the Southwest 
Border of the United States. Such study shall include— 
(1) the definition of cross-border violence used 
by law enforcement components within the Depart-
ments of Justice and Homeland Security; 
(2) the ability of the Departments of Justice 
and Homeland Security and their law enforcement 
components to track, investigate, quantify, and re-
port on the level of cross-border violence occurring 
along the Southwest Border of the United States; 
(3) the extent to which the Departments of 
Justice and Homeland Security define and track 
cross-border violence and steps being taken to ad-
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dress the effects of cross-border violence along the 
Southwest Border of the United States; 
(4) the information and data on cross-border vi-
olence collected and made available through inter- 
agency taskforces on the Southwest Border of the 
United States, including the Southwest Border High 
Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Arizona’s Alliance 
to Combat Transnational Threats, the El Paso Intel-
ligence Center, the Border Enforcement and Secu-
rity Task Force, and State and Local Fusion Cen-
ters; and 
(5) the additional resources needed to track, in-
vestigate, quantify and report on the level of cross- 
border violence occurring along the United States- 
Mexico border. 
(b) CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—The congres-
sional committees set forth in this subsection are— 
(1) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 
(2) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-
ate; 
(3) the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
House of Representatives; and 
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(4) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 19, 
2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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