HR 993
Passed a chamber
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to deliver a plan, within 180 days of enactment, for finding and deploying emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and advanced sensors to strengthen border security operations.
Official title: Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
05-FEB-2025
Referred
05-FEB-2025
Passed
10-MAR-2025
Senate
Received
11-MAR-2025
- Requires the plan to be submitted by the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department's Under Secretary for Science and Technology, to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees.
- Requires the plan to describe how CBP Innovation Teams operate, how their technologies are tested and moved into programs of record, and what privacy and security effects they have on border communities.
- Authorizes the CBP Commissioner to maintain one or more CBP Innovation Teams to research and adapt commercial technologies, and requires annual reports on their activities.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (05-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 10-MAR-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Homeland Security Committee (House)
- Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
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