[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2025 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2025

  To amend title 32, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to provide funds to support the use by a State of the National 
 Guard, State defense forces, and law enforcement agencies in securing 
an international border that forms part of the border of the State, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 2011

    Mr. Carter (for himself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Gosar, and Mr. Gohmert) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 32, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to provide funds to support the use by a State of the National 
 Guard, State defense forces, and law enforcement agencies in securing 
an international border that forms part of the border of the State, 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 States Security Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FUNDING FOR STATE BORDER SECURITY 
              ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Support for Border Activities.--Section 902 of title 32, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 902. Department of Defense support for National Guard homeland 
              defense activities and State border security activities
    ``(a) Homeland Defense Activities.--The Secretary of Defense may 
provide funds to the Governor of a State to employ units or members of 
the National Guard of that State to conduct homeland defense activities 
that the Secretary determines to be necessary and appropriate for 
participation by the National Guard units or members.
    ``(b) Border Security Activities.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
provide funds to the Governor of a State to employ units or members of 
the National Guard of that State, State defense forces of that State, 
and law enforcement agencies of that State to help secure an 
international border that forms part of the border of that State if the 
Governor determines that their participation in border security 
activities is necessary and appropriate. In the case of the use of the 
National Guard, the Secretary shall provide the requested funds even 
though the border security activities are conducted while the members 
of the National Guard are not in Federal service.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 9 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to 
section 902 and inserting the following new item:

``902. Department of Defense support for National Guard homeland 
                            defense activities and State border 
                            security activities.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Definitions.--Section 901 of such title is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3);
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following 
                new paragraph:
            ``(2) The term `law enforcement agencies' includes the 
        Texas Department of Public Safety, including the Texas Rangers 
        and Texas Highway Patrol, the New Mexico State Police, the 
        Arizona Department of Public Safety, including the Arizona 
        Highway Patrol, and the California Highway Patrol.''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(4) The term `State defense forces' means defense forces 
        authorized under section 109(c) of this title. The term 
        includes the Texas State Guard, the New Mexico State Guard, the 
        Arizona State Defense Force, and the California State Military 
        Reserve.''.
            (2) Nature of duty.--Section 904 of such title is amended 
        by striking ``this chapter'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``section 902(a) of this title''.
            (3) Funding assistance.--Section 905 of such title (1) is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking ``In the case'' and inserting ``(a) 
                Homeland Defense Activities.--In the case'';
                    (B) by striking ``section 902 of this title'' and 
                inserting ``section 902(a) of this title''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subsection:
    ``(b) Department of Defense Payments for Border Security 
Activities.--In the case of any border security activity for which the 
Governor of a State requests assistance under section 902(b) of this 
title, the Secretary of Defense shall pay to that State, from funds 
available to the Department of Defense for homeland defense purposes, 
an amount that the Governor certifies is necessary to cover the costs 
described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a) of the 
National Guard, State defense forces, and law enforcement agencies of 
that State incurred or to be incurred as a result of participation in 
the border security activity.''.
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