Amendments to H.R. 8146 – Police Our Border Act
Standalone amendments receive up to 10 minutes of debate
NOT OFFERED Crenshaw (R-TX) – Amendment No. 1 – Adds policies that would constitute “strong border security legislation”
NOT OFFERED Crenshaw (R-TX) – Amendment No. 2 – Requires the report to include who is spending what rather than just providing an aggregate estimated expenditure of SLTT law enforcement
D’Esposito (R-NY), offered on behalf of Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 3 – Adds a provision to the required report to also include the impact that the Biden border crisis has had on law enforcement recruitment – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Nunn (R-IA) – Amendment No. 4 – Requires the attorney general’s report to include costs States had to expend on local law enforcement efforts to investigate, intercept, and process, which includes the collection, analysis, storage, and eventual destruction, fentanyl trafficked from the United States border – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Nunn (R-IA) – Amendment No. 5 – Requires the attorney general’s report to include data on how many law enforcement officers have been reassigned and local resources reallocated to investigate, intercept, and process as evidence fentanyl trafficked from the United States border – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Houlahan (D-PA) – Amendment No. 6 – Strikes Sec (2) lines 17 – 19 and strike the word “Biden” throughout the text – VOTE REQUESTED
LaLota (R-NY), offered on behalf of Gimenez (R-FL) – Amendment No. 7 – Requires nationality of an illegal alien to be reported on, once they have exposed a law enforcement officer to fentanyl during an encounter at the border and in the United States – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Miller (R-IL), offered on the behave of Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 8 – Adds to the findings section that it is in the best interest of law enforcement officers and the communities they serve for President Biden to use longstanding authorities, including under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to secure the southern border. – ADOPTED BY VOICE