[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3814 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3814

    To ensure that highway safety signs within 5 miles of a border 
             checkpoint in the United States are bilingual.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2005

Mr. Sweeney (for himself and Mr. McHugh) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To ensure that highway safety signs within 5 miles of a border 
             checkpoint in the United States are bilingual.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. BILINGUAL HIGHWAY SAFETY SIGNS NEAR BORDER CHECKPOINTS.

    The Secretary of Transportation using funds made available under 
title 23, United States Code, shall provide that all highway safety 
signs within 5 miles of any inspection station operated by the Bureau 
of Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security 
and permanently located in the United States at the borders of--
            (1) Canada, are in French and English; and
            (2) Mexico, are in Spanish and English.
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