[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
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[H.R. 5302 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 450
118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5302

                      [Report No. 118-542, Part I]

  To designate the Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. 
  Customs and Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, 
         Puerto Rico, as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine Unit''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 29, 2023

Mrs. Gonzalez-Colon (for herself, Mr. Green of Tennessee, Ms. Salazar, 
Mrs. Radewagen, and Mr. Soto) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, 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

                              June 7, 2024

 Additional sponsors: Mr. Waltz, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Tony Gonzales of 
Texas, Mr. Moylan, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Correa, 
Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Luttrell, and Mr. Higgins of Louisiana

                              June 7, 2024

            Reported from the Committee on Homeland Security

                              June 7, 2024

 Committee on Ways and Means discharged; committed to the Committee of 
  the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed


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                                 A BILL


 
  To designate the Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. 
  Customs and Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, 
         Puerto Rico, as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine Unit''.


 


    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 ``Michel O. Maceda Memorial Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

     Congress finds the following:
            (1) Marine Interdiction Agent Michel O. Maceda served 
        honorably in the United States Army as a wheeled vehicle 
        mechanic prior to joining the United States Border Patrol as an 
        Agent in Douglas, Arizona, in April 2016.
            (2) Agent Maceda became a Marine Interdiction Agent with 
        U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations 
        in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 2021.
            (3) On November 17, 2022, Agent Maceda and 2 other agents 
        were conducting a drug interdiction stop off the coast of 
        Puerto Rico, during which the agents boarded the target vessel.
            (4) During the stop, Agent Maceda was mortally wounded when 
        1 of the occupants of the vessel shot the boarding agents with 
        a firearm.
            (5) Agent Maceda is survived by his daughter, brother, and 
        parents.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION.

    The Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, 
shall forever be known and designated as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine 
Unit''.

SEC. 4. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the marine unit referred to in section 3 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine 
Unit''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 450

118th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 5302

                      [Report No. 118-542, Part I]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To designate the Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. 
  Customs and Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, 
         Puerto Rico, as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine Unit''.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              June 7, 2024

            Reported from the Committee on Homeland Security

                              June 7, 2024

 Committee on Ways and Means discharged; committed to the Committee of 
  the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed