Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act

Bill: 108-hr-1096
Sponsor: Rep. Kolbe, Jim [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Boundaries
Canada
Commerce
Common carriers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Containerization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Department of Homeland Security
EBB Terrorism
Employee training
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Free trade
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Harbors
Identification devices
Immigration
Imports
Industrial buildings
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Mexico
Planning
Police training
Public-private partnerships
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Smuggling
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act - Directs the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security to: (1) make specified personnel increases in the Department of Homeland Security's Bureaus of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection, respectively; (2) prepare an annual National Land Border Security Plan, which shall include a vulnerability assessment of each port of entry on the northern or southern border, and may provide for port security coordinators; and (3) carry out a three-to-five-site port of entry demonstration program.
Directs the Administrator of General Services to make annual updates to the Port of Entry Infrastructure Assessment Study.
Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to: (1) develop an expansion plan for the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism programs along the northern and southern borders, including the Business Anti-Smuggling Coalition, the Carrier Initiative Program, the Americas Counter Smuggling Initiative, the Container Security Initiative, the Free and Secure Trade Initiative, and other Industry Partnership programs; (2) establish a Partnership demonstration program along the southern border; and (3) establish a demonstration program for a cooperative trade security system with respect to entities (maquiladora) in Mexico that assemble and produce goods from imported parts for export to the United States.
Authorizes specified appropriations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House