[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7733 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7733

   To amend section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act with 
 respect to the requirement to cross reference the terrorist screening 
                               database.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2024

   Mr. Williams of Texas (for himself, Mr. Posey, Mr. Biggs, and Mr. 
   Johnson of South Dakota) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act with 
 respect to the requirement to cross reference the terrorist screening 
                               database.

    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 ``Identifying Potential Terrorist at 
the Border Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO REVIEW FEDERAL TERRORIST SCREENING DATABASE.

    Section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1226A) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``; or'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at 
                the end and insert ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) is on the terrorist screening database.''; 
                and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Requirement To Review Federal Terrorist Screening Database.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner of U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection shall take into and maintain custody over 
an alien until the Commissioner cross references the name of such alien 
with the terrorist screening database and a result for such cross 
reference is received by the Commissioner.
    ``(e) Terrorist Screening Database Defined.--In this section, the 
term `terrorist screening database' shall have the meaning given such 
term in section 2101 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.''.
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