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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 625 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot program |
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| 6 | 6 | | to hire transitioning servicemembers to be Border Patrol agents. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY18, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | LUMENTHAL(for himself and Mr. LANKFORD) introduced the following |
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| 11 | 11 | | bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish |
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| 14 | 14 | | a pilot program to hire transitioning servicemembers to |
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| 15 | 15 | | be Border Patrol agents. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans Border Pa-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | trol Training Act’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. BORDER PATROL SKILLBRIDGE PILOT PROGRAM. 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) E |
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| 23 | 23 | | STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Homeland Security, in collaboration with the Secretary of 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, shall estab-10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 625 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | lish an interdepartmental pilot program through which the 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Department of Homeland Security shall use the Depart-2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ment of Defense SkillBridge Program to train and hire 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | transitioning servicemembers as Border Patrol agents for 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (b) E |
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| 36 | 36 | | MPLOYMENT SKILLSTRAINING.—In carrying 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | out the pilot program established pursuant to subsection 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security, in collaboration 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | with the Secretary of Defense, shall use the authorities 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | available under section 1143 of title 10, United States 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Code, to train and facilitate the transition of members of 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | the Armed Forces to service as Border Patrol agents. 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORTS. 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Not later than 1 year after the pilot program is estab-14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | lished pursuant to section 2(a), and annually thereafter 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | until the date referred to in section 4, the Secretary of 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, shall sub-18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | mit a report to the Committee on Homeland Security and 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | Armed Services of the Senate, the Committee on Veterans’ 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Secu-22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | rity of the House of Representatives, the Committee on 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | Armed Services of the House of Representatives, and the 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | •S 625 IS |
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| 58 | 58 | | Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Rep-1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | resentatives that includes for the reporting period— 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (1) the number of participants in the pilot pro-3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | gram; 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (2) the number of eligible participants who ap-5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | plied to be part of the pilot program; and 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (3) the number of pilot program participants 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | who are— 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (A) members the Armed Forces; 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (B) reserve members of the Armed Forces; 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (C) commissioned officers or non-commis-11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | sioned officers; 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (D) enlisted members of the Armed 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Forces; 14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (E) veterans; 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (F) spouses of such members of the Armed 16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | Forces or veterans; and 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (G) dependents of such members of the 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | Armed Forces or veterans. 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | SEC. 4. SUNSET DATE. 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | The pilot program established pursuant to section 2 21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | shall be terminated on the date that is 5 years after the 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | date on which such program is established. 23 |
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