Ensuring Scanned Containers Arrive in Ports Efficiently Act of 2012

Ensuring Scanned Containers Arrive in Ports Efficiently Act of 2012 - Amends the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), on order to extend the date after which all containers loaded on a vessel destined for the United States must be scanned in a foreign port, to submit a feasibility study, including a cost-benefit analysis and an available systems assessment, on meeting such requirement.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6713 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6713

To amend the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006 to 
 require a feasibility study on meeting the 100 percent requirement to 
 scan containers destined for the United States in order to extend the 
          deadline for such scanning, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 27, 2012

Ms. Richardson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006 to 
 require a feasibility study on meeting the 100 percent requirement to 
 scan containers destined for the United States in order to extend the 
          deadline for such scanning, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Scanned Containers Arrive 
in Ports Efficiently Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. FEASIBILITY STUDY.

    Paragraph (4) of section 232(b) of the Security and Accountability 
For Every Port Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 982(b); Public Law 109-347) is 
amended, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting before 
``certifies'' the following: ``submits to Congress a feasibility study, 
including a cost-benefit analysis and an available systems assessment, 
on meeting the 100 percent requirement to scan containers in accordance 
with paragraph (1) and''.
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