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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 850
To amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to require updates
to the northern border threat analysis and northern border strategy,
and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH5, 2025
Ms. H
ASSAN(for herself, Mr. CRAMER, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, and Ms. COLLINS)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to re-
quire updates to the northern border threat analysis
and northern border strategy, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Northern Border Secu-4
rity Enhancement and Review Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. NORTHERN BORDER THREAT ANALYSIS AND 1
STRATEGY. 2
(a) N
ORTHERNBORDERTHREATANALYSIS.—Sec-3
tion 3(a) of the Northern Border Security Review Act 4
(Public Law 114–267) is amended— 5
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 6
striking ‘‘180 days after the date of enactment of 7
this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘September 2, 2025, and 8
every 3 years thereafter’’; 9
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and 10
(4) as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; and 11
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-12
lowing: 13
‘‘(2) an assessment of recent changes in the 14
amount and demographics of apprehensions at the 15
Northern Border, including an analysis of apprehen-16
sion changes at the sector level.’’. 17
(b) N
ORTHERNBORDERSTRATEGYUPDATES.—Sec-18
tion 3 of the Northern Border Security Review Act (Public 19
Law 114–267) is amended— 20
(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-21
section (d); and 22
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-23
lowing: 24
‘‘(c) N
ORTHERNBORDERSTRATEGYUPDATES.— 25
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall update the De-26
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partment of Homeland Security’s Northern Border strat-1
egy not later than September 2, 2026, and every 5 years 2
thereafter, and shall incorporate the results of the most 3
recent threat analysis in each such update.’’. 4
(c) C
LASSIFIEDBRIEFINGS.—Section 3 of the North-5
ern Border Security Review Act, as amended by sub-6
sections (a) and (b), is further amended by adding at the 7
end the following: 8
‘‘(e) C
LASSIFIEDBRIEFINGS.—Not later than 30 9
days after the submission of each threat analysis pursuant 10
to subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security 11
shall provide a classified briefing regarding such analysis 12
to the appropriate congressional committees.’’. 13
(d) I
MPLEMENTATION OF CERTAINGOVERNMENT 14
A
CCOUNTABILITY OFFICERECOMMENDATIONS .—Not 15
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 16
this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting 17
through the Executive Assistant Commissioner of Air and 18
Marine Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protec-19
tion, shall develop performance measures to assess the ef-20
fectiveness of Air and Marine Operations at securing the 21
northern border between ports of entry in the air and mar-22
itime environments. 23
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SEC. 3. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS. 1
No additional funds are authorized to be appro-2
priated for the purpose of carrying out this Act or the 3
amendments made by this Act. 4
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