S.Amdt. 943

SA 943. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. 10___. SUBMISSION OF REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE ALONG THE
SOUTHERN BORDER.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
make every effort to submit a request for assistance for
personnel or capabilities along the southern border of the
United States not later than 180 days before the requested
deployment of such personnel or capabilities.
(b) Contents.-- A request for assistance submitted in
accordance with subsection (a) shall specify the capabilities
necessary to assist the Secretary of Homeland Security and
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in
fulfilling the relevant mission along the southern border.
(c) 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
to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a
notification describing--
(A) 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; and
(B) progress 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.
(2) Notification of transmittal.-- Upon transmitting a
request for assistance to the Department of Defense, the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a notification of the
transmission, which shall include--
(A) a copy of the request for assistance; and
(B) a description of the number of days prior to the
requested deployment of such personnel or capabilities the
request for assistance was transmitted.
(d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(1) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate;
and
(2) the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on
Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
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