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Reform Immigration Through Biometrics Act
Sponsored By: Representative Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19]
In Committee
Summary
This bill would require a congressional evaluation of the biometric entry and exit data system. It directs the Department of Homeland Security to report on the system's performance, privacy protections, device audits, and cross‑border data sharing.
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- Travelers and trade: Reports must cover how the system affects arrival and departure wait times and ensure biometric collection causes the least disruption to people and cargo.
- Private-sector device vendors: DHS must evaluate audits of devices procured from private companies and assess prior and ongoing consultations with industry.
- Privacy and U.S. citizens: The bill requires a report on how departing individuals are matched to previously provided biometrics and limits citizen-specific detail to descriptions of facial recognition privacy protections.
- Canada and data sharing: DHS must disclose whether biographic data was shared under the 2011 Beyond the Border agreement and describe any impacts.
- Oversight and enforcement: Reports must list milestones, metrics, risks, and the System's effects on counterterrorism and identifying visa holders who violate terms.
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Bill Overview
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Biometric entry-exit rules for travelers
If enacted, DHS would have to report to Congress within 180 days about its biometric entry-exit system. The reports would cover wait times, audits, private-sector consultations, milestones, risks, and effects on travel and trade. DHS would also explain how it matches departing travelers' biometrics to prior travel records. That matching report would not include U.S. citizen data, except to describe facial recognition privacy protections. DHS would also report whether Canada shared biographic data under the 2011 Beyond the Border agreement. The bill would require DHS to minimize delays to people and cargo when collecting biometrics. It would also preserve DHS's existing authority to collect user fees allowed by law.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19]
FL • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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