{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-3602","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 3602","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","official_title":"To prohibit the intentional hindering of immigration, border, and customs controls, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To prohibit the intentional hindering of immigration, border, and customs controls, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act"}],"outcome":"failed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-05-23","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-04-20","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h143","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"End the Border Catastrophe Act","result":"Failed","yea":215,"nay":199,"present":0,"not_voting":17,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll143.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 215 - 199 (Roll no. 143).","date":"2024-04-20"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-05-23","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill provides for criminal penalties for certain conduct that interferes with U.S. border control measures."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, a person who knowingly transmits the location or activities of law enforcement with the intent to further a crime related to immigration, customs, or controlled substances may be imprisoned for a maximum of 10 years. A person who knowingly damages or destroys a device deployed to control the border or port of entry may be imprisoned for a maximum of 10 years."},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, the bill provides for enhanced punishment for carrying or using a firearm in connection with certain criminal immigration violations such as assisting a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) who is inadmissible due to a felony conviction."}],"words":126},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Creates federal crimes for transmitting the location of law enforcement to further border-related offenses and for damaging or evading federal border control devices, and adds alien smuggling crimes to the federal firearm offense in title 18.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text/ih#H2280B846F01A46A7BC571AE1E449BBA6"}]},"core_areas":["Criminal penalties for transmitting the location or activities of law enforcement (illicit spotting)","Criminal penalties for damaging or circumventing federal border and port of entry controls","Firearm offenses tied to alien smuggling crimes","Statute of limitations reference for the new offenses"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Adds a section to the Immigration and Nationality Act that sets a fine, up to 10 years in prison, or both for knowingly transmitting to another person the location, movement, or activities of a Federal, State, local, or tribal law enforcement agency with intent to further certain Federal border-related crimes.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text/ih#H2280B846F01A46A7BC571AE1E449BBA6"}},{"text":"Sets a fine, up to 10 years in prison, or both for knowingly and without lawful authorization destroying, altering, or damaging any fence, barrier, sensor, camera, or other device deployed by the Federal Government to control the border or a port of entry.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text/ih#H2280B846F01A46A7BC571AE1E449BBA6"}},{"text":"Applies the same penalty to a person who seeks to construct, excavate, or make a structure intended to defeat, circumvent, or evade such a federally deployed border or port of entry control device.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text/ih#H2280B846F01A46A7BC571AE1E449BBA6"}},{"text":"Raises the maximum prison term to 20 years, with a fine or both, for the border control destruction offense if the person uses or carries a firearm at the time of the offense or possesses a firearm in furtherance of the crime.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text/ih#H2280B846F01A46A7BC571AE1E449BBA6"}},{"text":"Provides that a person who attempts or conspires to commit the illicit spotting or border control destruction offenses is punished in the same manner as a person who completes the offense.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text/ih#H2280B846F01A46A7BC571AE1E449BBA6"}},{"text":"Amends section 924(c) of title 18 to add \"alien smuggling crime,\" defined as a felony punishable under sections 274(a), 277, or 278 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, alongside crimes of violence in the firearm offense.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text/ih#H2280B846F01A46A7BC571AE1E449BBA6"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Introduced in House","date":"2023-05-23","rule":"nearest","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text/ih"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3602/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-3602.png","v":"b43f404939ba","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 3602, 118th Congress: Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act. House: 215 Yea, 199 Nay. Outcome: Failed House, 20 Apr 2024."}}