HR 1437
111th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Coast guard
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Homeland Security
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Intergovernmental relations
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
New Mexico
State and local government operations
Texas
Violent crime
Southern Border Security Task Force Act of 2009
Everywhere this bill has been
7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 19, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Aug 19, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Mar 20, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
Mar 11, 2009
Referred to House Judiciary
Mar 11, 2009
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 11, 2009
Referred to House Homeland Security
Mar 11, 2009
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Southern Border Security Task Force Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) establish a Southern Border Security Task Force to coordinate the efforts of federal, state, and local border and law enforcement officials and task forces to protect U.S. border cities and communities from violence associated with drug trafficking, gunrunning, illegal alien smuggling, violence, and kidnapping along and across the international border between the United States and Mexico; and (2) deploy the Task Force along that border in cities and communities most affected by violence.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.