[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2213 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2213

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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

    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 Communities Economic Security 
and Sustainability Act of 2013''.

SEC. 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.
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