[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8316 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8316
To require reports, evaluations, and research by the Department of
Homeland Security regarding drug interdiction along the border, and for
other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 7, 2022
Ms. Spanberger (for herself and Mr. Garbarino) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in
addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Energy and
Commerce, and the Judiciary, 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 require reports, evaluations, and research by the Department of
Homeland Security regarding drug interdiction along the 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 ``Securing America's Borders Against
Fentanyl Act''.
SEC. 2. REPORTS, EVALUATIONS, AND RESEARCH REGARDING DRUG INTERDICTION
AT AND BETWEEN PORTS OF ENTRY.
(a) Research on Additional Technologies To Detect Fentanyl.--
(1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security,
in consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the Federal Drug Administration, and the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, shall research additional
technological solutions to--
(A) target and detect illicit fentanyl and its
precursors, including low-purity fentanyl, especially
in counterfeit pressed tablets, and illicit pill press
molds;
(B) enhance targeting of counterfeit pills through
nonintrusive, noninvasive, and other visual screening
technologies; and
(C) enhance data-driven targeting to increase
seizure rates of fentanyl and its precursors.
(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized
to be appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security to
carry out this subsection $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2023 through 2027.
(b) Evaluation of Current Technologies and Strategies in Illicit
Drug Interdiction and Procurement Decisions.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Homeland Security, in
consultation with the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, shall
establish a program to collect available data and develop
metrics to measure how technologies and strategies used by the
Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and other
relevant Federal agencies have helped detect, deter, or address
illicit fentanyl and its precursors being trafficking into the
United States at and between land, air, and sea ports of entry.
Such data and metrics program may consider the rate of
detection at random secondary inspections at such ports of
entry, investigations and intelligence sharing into the origins
of illicit fentanyl later detected within the United States,
and other data or metrics considered appropriate by the
Secretary. The Secretary, as appropriate and in the
coordination with the officials specified in this paragraph,
may update such data and metrics program.
(2) Reports.--
(A) Secretary of homeland security.--Not later than
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act
and biennially thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland
Security, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, the Commissioner of Food and
Drugs, and the Postmaster General shall, based on the
data collected and metrics developed pursuant to the
program established under paragraph (1), submit to the
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs a report that--
(i) examines and analyzes current
technologies deployed at land, air, and sea
ports of entry, including pilot technologies,
to assess how well such technologies detect,
deter, and address fentanyl and its precursors;
(ii) contains a cost-benefit analysis of
technologies used in drug interdiction; and
(iii) describes how such analysis may be
used when making procurement decisions relating
to such technologies.
(B) GAO.--Not later than one year after each report
submitted pursuant to subparagraph (A), the Comptroller
General of the United States shall submit to the
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report that
evaluates and, as appropriate, makes recommendations to
improve, the data collected and metrics used in each
such report.
SEC. 3. ONDCP SUPPLEMENTAL STRATEGIES.
Section 706(h) of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1705(h)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a
semicolon;
(2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(7) develops performance measures and targets for the
National Drug Control Strategy for supplemental strategies (the
Southwest Border, Northern Border, and Caribbean Border
Counternarcotics Strategies) to effectively evaluate region-
specific goals, to the extent the performance measurement
system does not adequately measure the effectiveness of the
strategies, as determined by the Director, such strategies may
evaluate interdiction efforts at and between ports of entry,
interdiction technology, intelligence sharing, diplomacy, and
other appropriate metrics, specific to each supplemental
strategies region, as determined by the Director.''.
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