Border Communities Economic Security and Sustainability Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2213
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2013-05-24
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration

Foreign labor

Homeland security

Industrial facilities

Industrial policy and productivity

Infrastructure development

Transportation safety and security
Latest action: action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-05-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Border Communities Economic Security and Sustainability Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to coordinate to ensure that appropriate measures are taken to accommodate preexisting and border location-dependent businesses into the design and construction of reconfigured and new ports of entry.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2213 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 24, 2013 Mr. McCaul (for himself and Mr. Cuellar ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security , and in addition to the Committee on 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 A BILL To incorporate into the design and construction of reconfigured and new ports of entry certain concerns relating to border location-dependent businesses, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Border Communities Economic Security and Sustainability Act of 2013 . 2. Incorporation into the design and construction of reconfigured and new ports of entry of certain concerns relating to border location-dependent businesses Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Administrator of the General Services Administration, as an ongoing part of the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security and the General Services Administration to reconfigure and make more secure the country’s ports of entry, shall coordinate to the extent practicable to ensure that appropriate measures are taken to accommodate preexisting and border location-dependent businesses into the design and construction of reconfigured and new ports of entry.