HR 1561 112th 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 Toward Security (PORTS) Act

Introduced: April 14, 2011 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps

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Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

May 11, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .

May 4, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.

Apr 19, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

Apr 15, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.

Apr 14, 2011

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.

Apr 14, 2011

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Putting Our Resources Toward Security (PORTS) Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, between FY2012-FY2016, 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 FY2010.

Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) for each of FY2012-FY2016 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 May 11, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .

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