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Veterans Border Patrol Training Act

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot program to hire transitioning servicemembers to be Border Patrol agents.

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What This Bill Does

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to collaborate with the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a five-year interdepartmental pilot program, under which DHS must use the DOD SkillBridge Program to train and hire transitioning servicemembers as border patrol agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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Timeline

  1. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
  2. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
  3. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  4. House floor actionsReferred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  5. Introduced
  6. Committee

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