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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 5316 (Introduced in House) — To secure the border between the United States and Mexico. · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Construction and completion of reinforced double-layered fencing along the southern border

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Section 564 of division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 ( Public Law 110–161 ) is hereby repealed. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish a plan to construct double-layered reinforced fencing as required under section 3 of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 ( Public Law 109–367 ). Such plan must be submitted by the Secretary within 180 days of enactment of this Act to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
The plan shall include annual deadlines to complete a proportion of the total construction of the fence, with the entirety of the fence to be completed no later than 10 years from the date of the submission of the plan. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a report on the progress of the fence to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
The report shall include whether planned objectives have been achieved by the Secretary’s proposed deadline, and detailed reasons why such deadline, if any, has not been met. If the Secretary of Homeland Security does not submit a plan or fencing progress reports as required by subsections
(b)and
(c)of this section, the budget of the Secretary of Homeland Security shall be reduced by twenty-five percent and redistributed to Customs and Border Protection operations along the border where the fence has not yet been constructed.
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Construction and completion of reinforced double-layered fencing along the southern border
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