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HR 1655 111th Congress House Emergency Management Border security and unlawful immigration Department of Homeland Security Executive agency funding and structure General Services Administration Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Homeland security Law enforcement officers

Putting Our Resources Towards Security (PORTS) Act

Introduced: March 19, 2009 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 9 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 23, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
Mar 24, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
Mar 20, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Mar 19, 2009
Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
Mar 19, 2009
Referred to House Agriculture
Mar 19, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
Mar 19, 2009
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 19, 2009
Referred to House Homeland Security
Mar 19, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Putting Our Resources Towards Security (PORTS) Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, between FY2010-FY2014, to increase the number of full-time Customs and Border Protection officers, agriculture specialists, and border security support personnel for U.S. ports of entry by not fewer than 5,000, 1,200, and 350, respectively, above the number of such personnel for which funds were made available during FY2009.

Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) for each of FY2010-FY2014 to make improvements to existing U.S. ports of entry to improve border security. Directs the Administrator to give priority to ports determined to be in most need of repair in accordance with required infrastructure assessment studies.

What's happening now April 23, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 7
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
D
Clarke, Yvette D.
New York · Jun 10, 2009
 D
Cuellar, Henry
Texas · Mar 19, 2009
 D
Doggett, Lloyd
Texas · Mar 19, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1655: Putting Our Resources Towards Security (PORTS) Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1655/
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