[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6368 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6368


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 20, 2012

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To require the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland 
  Security to provide a joint report to Congress on the Departments' 
ability to track, investigate and quantify cross-border violence along 
the Southwest Border and provide recommendations to Congress on how to 
   accurately track, investigate, and quantify cross-border violence.

    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 Security Information 
Improvement Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. STUDY.

    (a) Report on Cross-Border Violence on the Southwest Border.--Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly 
submit to the congressional committees set forth in subsection (b) a 
report on cross-border violence on the Southwest Border of the United 
States. Such study shall include--
            (1) the definition of cross-border violence used by law 
        enforcement components within the Departments of Justice and 
        Homeland Security;
            (2) the ability of the Departments of Justice and Homeland 
        Security and their law enforcement components to track, 
        investigate, quantify, and report on the level of cross-border 
        violence occurring along the Southwest Border of the United 
        States;
            (3) the extent to which the Departments of Justice and 
        Homeland Security define and track cross-border violence and 
        steps being taken to address the effects of cross-border 
        violence along the Southwest Border of the United States;
            (4) the information and data on cross-border violence 
        collected and made available through inter-agency taskforces on 
        the Southwest Border of the United States, including the 
        Southwest Border High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, 
        Arizona's Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats, the El Paso 
        Intelligence Center, the Border Enforcement and Security Task 
        Force, and State and Local Fusion Centers; and
            (5) the additional resources needed to track, investigate, 
        quantify and report on the level of cross-border violence 
        occurring along the United States-Mexico border.
    (b) Congressional Committees.--The congressional committees set 
forth in this subsection are--
            (1) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
        Affairs of the Senate;
            (2) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
            (3) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
        Representatives; and
            (4) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
        Representatives.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 19, 2012.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.