What This Bill Does
This bill expands the HERO Corps Program, which is a program within the Department of Homeland Security. The bill adds fentanyl trafficking (the illegal distribution of a powerful drug) as a focus area for the program alongside its existing work on child exploitation.
Who It Affects
Participants in the HERO Corps Program are directly affected by these changes.
Key Provisions
• The program will now investigate and analyze fentanyl trafficking in addition to child exploitation (Sec. 2)
• Investigations and analysis about fentanyl trafficking cannot make up more than 40 percent of all the work done by HERO Corps Program participants (Sec. 2)
What Changes
The bill removes the word "Child-Rescue" from the program name and calls it the "HERO Corps Program" instead. It adds fentanyl trafficking as an official focus area alongside child exploitation investigations.
Important Definitions
None defined in bill text.
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118TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
S. 987
To expand the HERO Child-Rescue Corps Program, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH 27, 2023
Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. SCOTT of Florida, Mr. PETERS, and Mrs.
CAPITO) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To expand the HERO Child-Rescue Corps Program, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Providing Resources
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for Exceptional Veterans to End Narcotic Trafficking of
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Fentanyl Act’’ or the ‘‘PREVENT Fentanyl Act’’.
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SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF THE HERO CHILD-RESCUE CORPS.
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Section 890A of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
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(6 U.S.C. 473) is amended—
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(1) by striking ‘‘Child-Rescue’’ each place it ap-
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pears; and
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(2) in subsection (e)—
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(A) in the subsection heading, by striking
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‘‘HERO CHILD-RESCUE CORPS’’ and inserting
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‘‘HERO CORPS PROGRAM’’;
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(B) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting ‘‘, as
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relevant’’ after ‘‘participants’’;
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(C) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘and
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fentanyl trafficking’’ after ‘‘child exploitation’’;
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(D) in paragraph (3)—
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(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
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graph (A), by inserting ‘‘Corps’’ before
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‘‘Program’’; and
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(ii) in subparagraph (B)—
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(I) in clause (v), by striking
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‘‘and’’;
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(II) in clause (vi), by striking the
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period at the end and inserting ‘‘;
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and’’; and
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(III) by adding at the end the
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following:
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‘‘(vii) fentanyl trafficking.’’; and
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(E) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(4) LIMITATION.—Investigations and analysis
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described in paragraph (3)(B)(vii) may not make up
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more than 40 percent of the investigations and anal-
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ysis conducted by participants of the HERO Corps
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Program.’’.
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