[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3252 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3252

    To authorize the President of the United States to agree to an 
amendment to the agreement between the Government of the United States 
 of America and the Government of the United Mexican States concerning 
the establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a 
                    North American Development Bank.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2009

Mr. Hinojosa (for himself, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. 
 Grijalva, Mr. Cuellar, and Mr. Reyes) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the President of the United States to agree to an 
amendment to the agreement between the Government of the United States 
 of America and the Government of the United Mexican States concerning 
the establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a 
                    North American Development Bank.

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

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT TO THE BORDER ENVIRONMENT 
              COOPERATION AGREEMENT.

    Section 545 of the North American Free Trade Agreement 
Implementation Act (22 U.S.C. 290m-4) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (2) by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) expand the purposes and functions of the Border 
        Environment Cooperation Commission and the North American 
        Development Bank to allow the Commission to certify, and the 
        Bank to finance, any infrastructure in the border region.''.
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