Title: Border, Law Enforcement, Operational Control, and Sovereignty Act of 2019
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Border, Law Enforcement, Operational Control, and Sovereignty Act of 2019
This bill allocates funds from certain duties imposed on Chinese goods toward the construction of physical barriers and roads along the southwest border of the United States. Such funds shall be equivalent to 50% of certain duties imposed in response to Chinese actions that violate a trade agreement or impose an unjustifiable restriction on U.S. commerce. The funds shall be available to the Department of Homeland Security for such border construction without further appropriation.


[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 188 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 188

To make revenue from certain duties imposed on goods imported from the 
People's Republic of China available for border security, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 17, 2019

Mrs. Hyde-Smith introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To make revenue from certain duties imposed on goods imported from the 
People's Republic of China available for border security, 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 ``Border, Law Enforcement, Operational 
Control, and Sovereignty Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR BORDER SECURITY.

    (a) Transfer of Certain Revenue From Duties to Secretary of 
Homeland Security.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
        transfer to the Secretary of Homeland Security from the general 
        fund of the Treasury amounts determined by the Secretary of the 
        Treasury to be equivalent to 50 percent of the amounts received 
        into the general fund that are attributable to duties imposed 
        under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2411) 
        with respect to goods imported from the People's Republic of 
        China on or after July 6, 2018.
            (2) Administration of transfers.--
                    (A) In general.--The amounts required to be 
                transferred under paragraph (1) shall be transferred 
                not less frequently than quarterly from the general 
                fund of the Treasury to the Secretary of Homeland 
                Security on the basis of estimates made by the 
                Secretary of the Treasury of the amounts described in 
                paragraph (1) that are received into the Treasury.
                    (B) Adjustments.--Proper adjustments shall be made 
                in the amounts described in paragraph (1) subsequently 
                transferred under that paragraph to the extent prior 
                estimates were in excess of, or less than, the amounts 
                required to be transferred.
    (b) Use of Funds for Border Security.--Amounts transferred under 
subsection (a) shall be available, without further appropriation, to 
the Secretary of Homeland Security to install physical barriers and 
roads described in section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of Public Law 104-208; 
8 U.S.C. 1103 note), including for the construction of fencing and road 
improvements described in subsection (b) of that section.
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