H.R. 4593 · 117th Congress
Securing Our Border States Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Brian Babin
- Introduced
- 2021-07-21
- Latest action
- 2021-07-22 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
Summary
Securing Our Border States Act
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to provide grants to states for building barriers and related infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Within 30 days of receiving a certification from a border state that it intends to use such grant funding for constructing a border barrier, Treasury must disburse funds to the state, with the amount based on the number of miles of border in that state that currently does not have a border barrier.
The bill provides $22 billion of funding for this grant program and permanently rescinds $22 billion from funds made available for various assistance programs related to COVID-19.