Lets U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees with air and marine authority support foreign governments abroad under existing U.S. arrangements, and lets the agency pay certain damage claims arising from its operations in foreign countries for five years.

• Allows Customs and Border Protection employees with Air and Marine Operations authority to conduct joint operations inside foreign countries when a U.S. arrangement with that government permits it.
• Covers monitoring and deterring drug and human smuggling, terrorist threats, and other threats to U.S. security or economy, plus search and rescue, medical aid, air traffic control help, transport, and law enforcement capacity-building.
• Lets the Secretary of Homeland Security pay money damage claims arising from agency operations in foreign countries, with each claim presented within two years of the incident.
• Requires a report to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees within 90 days after the payment authority expires, which happens five years after enactment.

• Ways and Means Committee (House)
• Homeland Security Committee (House)
• Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee
• Foreign Relations Committee (Senate)

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