[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5269-S5270]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3015. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1095. SUBMISSION OF REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE ALONG THE 
                   SOUTHERN BORDER.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Border 
     Security Coordination and Improvement Act''.
       (b) Defined Term.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
     congressional committees'' means--
       (1) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
     Affairs of the Senate;
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate;
       (3) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives; and
       (4) the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (c) In General.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
     make every effort to submit to the Department of Defense a 
     request for assistance along the southern border of the 
     United States not later than 180 days before the requested 
     date such assistance would begin.
       (d) Contents.--A request for assistance submitted in 
     accordance with subsection (c) shall specify the capabilities 
     necessary to assist the Secretary of Homeland Security and 
     the Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 
     fulfilling the relevant mission along the southern border.
       (e) Notification Requirements.--
       (1) Ongoing notifications.--Not later than 90 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days 
     thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a 
     notification to the appropriate congressional committees that 
     describes--

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       (A) the efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to 
     develop and transmit to the Department of Defense requests 
     for assistance along the southern border of the United 
     States;
       (B) the progress made toward ensuring that such requests 
     for assistance are submitted to the Department of Defense not 
     later than 180 days before the requested deployment of such 
     personnel or capabilities;
       (C) the number of days before the beginning of requested 
     assistance that any request for assistance was submitted to 
     the Department of Defense during the previous 90 days; and
       (D) in the case of any request for assistance submitted 
     after the date that is 180 days before the requested date of 
     the beginning of Department of Defense assistance, the reason 
     such request for assistance was submitted after such date.
       (2) Notification of transmittal.--Upon submitting a request 
     for assistance to the Department of Defense, the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security shall notify the appropriate congressional 
     committees of such submission, which shall include--
       (A) a copy of such request for assistance;
       (B) the number of days after the date of such request that 
     assistance would begin;
       (C) a description of the reasons such requested assistance 
     was necessary;
       (D) a description of the personnel, capabilities, and 
     resources the Department of Homeland Security would need to 
     render the request for assistance unnecessary, and the 
     associated costs of such personnel, capabilities, and 
     resources;
       (E) the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to obtain 
     the personnel, capabilities, and resources described in 
     subparagraph (D); and
       (F) if the Department of Homeland Security did not commit 
     to reimburse the Department of Defense for its assistance --
       (i) the reasons for such failure to commit;
       (ii) a description of the estimated amount necessary to 
     reimburse the Department of Defense for such assistance; and
       (iii) a description of the Department of Homeland 
     Security's efforts to ensure that the Department of Homeland 
     Security has sufficient funds to commit to reimbursing the 
     Department of Defense for future assistance.
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