[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3181 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3181

  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'', and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 1, 2023

    Mr. Scott of Florida (for himself, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. Padilla) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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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'', 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 ``Michel O. Maceda Memorial Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

     Congress makes the following findings:
            (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) In 2021, Agent Maceda became a Marine Interdiction 
        Agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine 
        Operations in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
            (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''.
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