H.R. 993 · 119th Congress · Immigration
Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Mar 10, 2025
Roll call ↗406
9
Passed the House.
Passed the House on March 10, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- IntroducedFeb 5, 2025
- CommitteeFeb 5, 2025
- Passed HouseMar 10, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 2
- 1 Democrat, 1 Republican
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsHouse Committee on Homeland Security
- Lobbying
- At least 3
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection and the DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology, to submit a plan to Congress within 180 days for identifying, integrating, and deploying emerging or advanced technologies in border security operations.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, March 10, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection and the DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology, to submit a plan to Congress within 180 days for identifying, integrating, and deploying emerging or advanced technologies in border security operations. The plan must cover technologies that may use artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, fiber-optic sensing, nanotechnology, radar, LIDAR, and imaging systems, among others. The plan's required contents include how CBP uses Innovation Team authority, technologies used by other agencies that CBP could adopt, an analysis of CBP's procurement authorities, an assessment of the privacy and security impact on border communities, a review of legacy programs that could be phased out with cost estimates, and an identification of recent advances in areas such as drones and counter-drone systems, surveillance towers, tunnel detection, and non-intrusive inspection. The bill also authorizes the CBP Commissioner to maintain one or more CBP Innovation Teams to research and adapt commercial technologies and assess their potential outcomes, sets operating-procedure and strategic-goal requirements for those teams, and requires the Commissioner to report on team activities within 180 days and annually thereafter.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 3 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 21 quarterly reports filed by 3 lobbying firms and by 2 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
14 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 1871, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organizations named: Tenable Inc; Americans for Prosperity; Ucb, Inc. Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.