S. 1305: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Hiring and Retention Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-06-07 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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Where it came from: introduced 2017-06-07 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Hiring and Retention Act of 2017

Plain summary

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Hiring and Retention Act of 2017 or the CBP HiRe Act (Sec. 2) This bill provides hiring and compensation flexibilities to support the recruitment, relocation, and retention of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees in rural or remote areas. Specifically, if the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) determines there is a critical hiring need and a direct relationship between the rural or remote nature of an area and the difficulty recruiting and retaining CBP employees in that area, then it may exercise direct hire authority and pay recruitment, relocation, and retention bonuses. Additionally, the Office of Personnel Management may establish special pay rates. The DHS Office of Inspector General must review the use of hiring and compensation flexibilities and determine whether they help meet hiring and retention needs in rural and remote areas. DHS must report to Congress on the number of requests it receives from other federal agencies for the file of an applicant for a position in the CBP that includes the results of a polygraph examination.

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Official text

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Hiring and Retention Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ] · 1 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 1305, CBP HiRe Act (2018-06-01)

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate amended)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115s1305.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/s>

Record fed-us-cong115-s1305 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115