“This bipartisan legislation will help CBP identify and deploy emerging technologies and ensure our border security operations are sophisticated, comprehensive, and effective.”
Support the Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act to require the Department of Homeland Security to submit a plan to identify, integrate, and deploy emerging border security technologies and to codify CBP Innovation Teams to research and adapt commercial technologies for border security operations.
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Evidence
H.R. 993 is titled the Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act. The referred-in-Senate text would require DHS/CBP to submit, within 180 days of enactment, a plan to identify, integrate, and deploy emerging or advanced technologies for border security operations, and it includes CBP Innovation Team authority and annual reporting.
Congress.gov lists Rep. J. Luis Correa as sponsor, says the bill passed the House on March 10, 2025, and lists the latest action as March 11, 2025: received in the Senate, read twice, and referred to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The tracker shows Passed House, with Passed Senate, To President, and Became Law not completed.
The actions page shows 11 actions total: House introduction on February 5, 2025; House passage by 406-9 on March 10, 2025; and only one Senate action, referral to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 11, 2025.
House Roll Call Vote 65 was on the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 993. The result was Passed, 406 yeas to 9 nays.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Correa as sponsor and two House cosponsors: Rep. Morgan Luttrell and Rep. Laura Gillen. The bill page also lists Related Bills as 0.
Congress.gov identifies Catherine Cortez Masto as Senator for Nevada, Democratic Party, serving in the Senate from the 115th through 119th Congresses, 2017-present.
Assessments
The bill text matches the promised policy, but H.R. 993 has only passed the House and remains referred to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, with no Senate passage or enactment. Cortez Masto is still in office during the 119th Congress, so the promise remains pending rather than finally failed. The record provided and current bill status do not show that she sponsored, cosponsored, voted on, or otherwise materially advanced the measure in the Senate, so no effort badge is warranted.