[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 256 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 256

 To allow the Secretary of the Treasury to accept public donations to 
 fund the construction of a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2019

 Mr. Grothman (for himself, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Mooney of West Virginia, 
Mr. Gosar, Mr. Weber of Texas, and Mr. Perry) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow the Secretary of the Treasury to accept public donations to 
 fund the construction of a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border, 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 ``People's Border Wall Fund Act''.

SEC. 2. BORDER WALL FUND.

    (a) In General.--At the end of subchapter III of chapter 33 of 
title 31, United States Code, insert the following:
``Sec. 3344. Border Wall Fund.
    ``(a) In General.--
            ``(1) Receive gifts.--Notwithstanding section 3113 of title 
        31, the Secretary of the Treasury may accept for the Government 
        a gift of money on the condition that it be used to plan, 
        design, construct, or maintain a barrier along the 
        international border between the United States and Mexico.
            ``(2) Trust fund.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
        enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury 
        shall--
                    ``(A) establish an account, to be known as the 
                `Border Wall Fund', into which money received as gifts 
                under this section shall be deposited; and
                    ``(B) create a publicly accessible website to 
                receive such gifts.
            ``(3) Public notice.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall--
                    ``(A) provide public outreach to educate the public 
                about the existence of the Border Wall Fund; and
                    ``(B) notify the public, on the Department of the 
                Treasury's website, of the current amount of funds in 
                the Border Wall Fund and the total amount donated over 
                time to the Border Wall Fund.
            ``(4) Appropriation.--Money deposited in the Border Wall 
        Trust Fund is appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security and may be expended to plan, design, construct, or 
        maintain a barrier along the international border between the 
        United States and Mexico. Such funds may not be used for any 
        other purpose.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for such chapter is 
amended by inserting at the end the following:

``3344. Border Wall Fund.''.
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