House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Veterans Border Patrol Training Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot program to hire transitioning servicemembers to be Border Patrol agents.
Sponsor: Rep. Mike Carey R-OHWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 26, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 8, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4160.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CAREY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 110, June 26, 2025, Page H3011):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 26, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4160, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4160
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
35942b00b53b9eb836f9f01fbfad81841a535ff159dcf480af694d8ca7aea9a8
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
3 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 3 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Carey.
- H.J.Res. 25 (119th) Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue…
- H.R. 6431 (119th) New Opportunities for Business Ownership and Self-Sufficiency Act
- H.R. 1453 (119th) Clean Energy Demonstration Transparency Act of 2025
- H.R. 8872 (119th) Preventing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in TANF Act
- H.R. 2036 (119th) Credit for Caring Act of 2025
- H.R. 2410 (119th) Revitalizing Downtowns and Main Streets Act
Related bills
- S. 625 (119th) Veterans Border Patrol Training ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.