S.Amdt. 3015

SA 3015. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1095. SUBMISSION OF REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE ALONG THE
SOUTHERN BORDER.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Border
Security Coordination and Improvement Act''.
(b) Defined Term.--In this section, the term ``appropriate
congressional committees'' means--
(1) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate;
(2) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate;
(3) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives; and
(4) the Committee on Armed Services of the House of
Representatives.
(c) In General.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
make every effort to submit to the Department of Defense a
request for assistance along the southern border of the
United States not later than 180 days before the requested
date such assistance would begin.
(d) Contents.--A request for assistance submitted in
accordance with subsection (c) shall specify the capabilities
necessary to assist the Secretary of Homeland Security and
the Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in
fulfilling the relevant mission along the southern border.
(e) Notification Requirements.--
(1) Ongoing notifications.--Not later than 90 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days
thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a
notification to the appropriate congressional committees that
describes--

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(A) the efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to
develop and transmit to the Department of Defense requests
for assistance along the southern border of the United
States;
(B) the progress made toward ensuring that such requests
for assistance are submitted to the Department of Defense not
later than 180 days before the requested deployment of such
personnel or capabilities;
(C) the number of days before the beginning of requested
assistance that any request for assistance was submitted to
the Department of Defense during the previous 90 days; and
(D) in the case of any request for assistance submitted
after the date that is 180 days before the requested date of
the beginning of Department of Defense assistance, the reason
such request for assistance was submitted after such date.
(2) Notification of transmittal.--Upon submitting a request
for assistance to the Department of Defense, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall notify the appropriate congressional
committees of such submission, which shall include--
(A) a copy of such request for assistance;
(B) the number of days after the date of such request that
assistance would begin;
(C) a description of the reasons such requested assistance
was necessary;
(D) a description of the personnel, capabilities, and
resources the Department of Homeland Security would need to
render the request for assistance unnecessary, and the
associated costs of such personnel, capabilities, and
resources;
(E) the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to obtain
the personnel, capabilities, and resources described in
subparagraph (D); and
(F) if the Department of Homeland Security did not commit
to reimburse the Department of Defense for its assistance --
(i) the reasons for such failure to commit;
(ii) a description of the estimated amount necessary to
reimburse the Department of Defense for such assistance; and
(iii) a description of the Department of Homeland
Security's efforts to ensure that the Department of Homeland
Security has sufficient funds to commit to reimbursing the
Department of Defense for future assistance.
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