Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5517 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5517

To amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to require updates to
 the northern border threat analysis and northern border strategy, and
                          for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 2025

   Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Alford, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr.
   Lawler, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Crenshaw, Ms.
Tenney, Mr. Zinke, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Van Drew, and Mr. Begich) introduced
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland
                                Security

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                                 A BILL

To amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to require updates to
 the northern border threat analysis and northern border strategy, 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 ``Northern Border Security Enhancement
and Review Act''.

SEC. 2. NORTHERN BORDER THREAT ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY.

    (a) Northern Border Threat Analysis.--Section (a) of the Northern
Border Security Review Act (Public Law 114-267) is amended, the matter
preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act'' and inserting ``September 2, 2026, and
biennially thereafter''.
    (b) Northern Border Strategy Updates.--The Northern Border Security
Review Act is amended by--
            (1) redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (2) inserting after subsection (b) the following new
        subsection:
    ``(c) Northern Border Strategy Updates.--Not later than 90 days
after each submission of the threat analysis required under subsection
(a), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall update the Department of
Homeland Security's northern border strategy. If the Secretary
determines no such update is required, the Secretary shall submit to
the appropriate congressional committees a notification relating
thereto.''.
    (c) Classified Briefings.--The Northern Border Security Review Act,
as amended by subsection (b), is further amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
    ``(e) Classified Briefings.--Not later than 30 days after each
submission of the threat analysis required under subsection (a), the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide to the appropriate
congressional committees a classified briefing regarding such
analysis.''.
    (d) Implementation of Certain GAO Recommendations.--Not later than
six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Homeland Security, acting through the Executive Assistant
Commissioner of Air and Marine Operations (AMO) of U.S. Customs and
Border Protection, shall develop performance measures to assess the
effectiveness of AMO at securing the northern border between ports of
entry in the air and maritime environments.
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