119th Congress · introduced in the House · Feb 5, 2025
Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
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Latest action (Mar 11, 2025): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Immigration
Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in House (Feb 5, 2025)
Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security to develop a plan to identify, integrate, and deploy emerging and innovative technologies to improve border security operations. Such technologies may incorporate artificial intelligence, machine-learning, automation, fiber-optic sensing technology, nanotechnology, optical and cognitive radar, modeling and simulation technology, hyperspectral and LIDAR sensors, and imaging, identification, and categorization systems.
The bill authorizes CBP to establish one or more Innovation Teams to research and adapt commercial technologies that may be used by CBP.
The plan must describe how the Innovation Teams have been implemented and also detail
• goals and timelines for adoption of qualifying technologies,
• metrics and key performance parameters for determining the plan's effectiveness,
• which technologies used by other federal agencies CBP may also utilize,
• which existing authorities CBP may use to procure technologies,
• how CBP legacy border technology programs may be replaced,
• the expected privacy and security impact of security-related technology on border communities, and
• recent technological advancements in specified technologies.
CBP must provide the plan to Congress within 180 days of the bill’s enactment. The bill also requires CBP to annually report to Congress regarding the activities of the Innovation Teams.
Show less of the summaryIncludes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
House · Mar 10, 2025 · Roll call 65 · Passed
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 406 - 9 (Roll no. 65). (text: CR H1052-1053) Roll call details
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 406 - 9 (Roll no. 65). (text: CR H1052-1053) Roll call details
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1059-1060)
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 993.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1052-1053)
Mr. Green (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Advanced technology and technological innovations · Border security and unlawful immigration · Computers and information technology · Congressional oversight · Homeland security · Law enforcement administration and funding · Performance measurement · Right of privacy · Technology assessment
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2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · amended · posted Mar 3, 2026 · issue area: Immigration
$305,000
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…eet physician gaps. H.R. 551: Make the migrant protection protocols mandatory Act - provisions related to the EO into law through a formal legislative passive. H.R. 993; Emerging Innovative Boarder Technologies Act - provisions related to establishing a taskforce at DHS to bring in technology and implement new technologies tha…
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