text: SECTION 1. RESTORATION OF IMPORT AND ENTRY AGRICULTURAL INSPECTION 
                FUNCTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
  
      (a) Repeal of Transfer of Functions.--Section 421 of the Homeland 
  Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 231) is repealed.
      (b) Conforming Amendment to Function of Secretary of Homeland 
  Security.--Section 402 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
  202) is amended--
              (1) by striking paragraph (7); and
              (2) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (7).
      (c) Transfer Agreement.--
              (1) In general.--Not later than the effective date 
          described in subsection (g), the Secretary of Agriculture and 
          the Secretary of Homeland Security shall enter into an 
          agreement to effectuate the return of functions required by the 
          amendments made by this section.
              (2) Use of certain employees.--The agreement may include 
          authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to use employees of 
          the Department of Homeland Security to carry out authorities 
          delegated to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
          regarding the protection of domestic livestock and plants.
      (d) Restoration of Department of Agriculture Employees.--Not later 
  than the effective date described in subsection (e), all full-time 
  equivalent positions of the Department of Agriculture transferred to 
  the Department of Homeland Security under section 421(g) of the 
  Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 231(g)) (as in effect on the 
  day before the effective date described in subsection (g)) shall be 
  restored to the Department of Agriculture.
      (e) Authority of APHIS.--
              (1) Establishment of program.--The Secretary of Agriculture 
          shall establish within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
          Service a program, to be known as the ``International 
          Agricultural Inspection Program'', under which the 
          Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
          (referred to in this subsection as the ``Administrator'') shall 
          carry out import and entry agricultural inspections.
              (2) Information gathering and inspections.--In carrying out 
          the program under paragraph (1), the Administrator shall have 
          full access to--
                      (A) each secure area of any terminal for screening 
                  passengers or cargo under the control of the Department 
                  of Homeland Security on the day before the date of 
                  enactment of this Act for purposes of carrying out 
                  inspections and gathering information; and
                      (B) each database (including any database relating 
                  to cargo manifests or employee and business records) 
                  under the control of the Department of Homeland 
                  Security on the day before the date of enactment of 
                  this Act for purposes of gathering information.
              (3) Inspection alerts.--The Administrator may issue 
          inspection alerts, including by indicating cargo to be held for 
          immediate inspection.
              (4) Inspection user fees.--The Administrator may, as 
          applicable--
                      (A) continue to collect any agricultural quarantine 
                  inspection user fee; and
                      (B) administer any reserve account for the fees.
              (5) Career track program.--
                      (A) In general.--The Administrator shall establish 
                  a program, to be known as the ``import and entry 
                  agriculture inspector career track program'', to 
                  support the development of long-term career 
                  professionals with expertise in import and entry 
                  agriculture inspection.
                      (B) Strategic plan and training.--In carrying out 
                  the program under this paragraph, the Administrator, in 
                  coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall--
                              (i) develop a strategic plan to incorporate 
                          import and entry agricultural inspectors into 
                          the infrastructure protecting food, fiber, 
                          forests, bioenergy, and the environment of the 
                          United States from animal and plant pests, 
                          diseases, and noxious weeds; and
                              (ii) as part of the plan under clause (i), 
                          provide training for import and entry 
                          agricultural inspectors participating in the 
                          program not less frequently than once each year 
                          to improve inspection skills.
      (f) Duties of Secretary.--
              (1) In general.--The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to 
          in this subsection as the ``Secretary'') shall--
                      (A) develop standard operating procedures for 
                  inspection, monitoring, and auditing relating to import 
                  and entry agricultural inspections, in accordance with 
                  recommendations from the Comptroller General of the 
                  United States and reports of interagency advisory 
                  groups, as applicable; and
                      (B) ensure that the Animal and Plant Health 
                  Inspection Service has a national electronic system 
                  with real-time tracking capability for monitoring, 
                  tracking, and reporting inspection activities of the 
                  Service.
              (2) Federal and state cooperation.--
                      (A) Communication system.--The Secretary shall 
                  develop and maintain an integrated, real-time 
                  communication system with respect to import and entry 
                  agricultural inspections to alert State departments of 
                  agriculture of significant inspection findings of the 
                  Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
                      (B) Advisory committee.--
                              (i) Establishment.--The Secretary shall 
                          establish a committee, to be known as the 
                          ``International Trade Inspection Advisory 
                          Committee'' (referred to in this subparagraph 
                          as the ``committee''), to advise the Secretary 
                          on policies and other issues relating to import 
                          and entry agricultural inspection.
                              (ii) Model.--In establishing the committee, 
                          the Secretary shall use as a model the 
                          Agricultural Trade Advisory Committee.
                              (iii) Membership.--The committee shall be 
                          composed of members representing--
                                      (I) State departments of 
                                  agriculture;
                                      (II) directors of ports and 
                                  airports in the United States;
                                      (III) the transportation industry;
                                      (IV) the public; and
                                      (V) such other entities as the 
                                  Secretary determines to be appropriate.
              (3) Report.--Not less frequently than once each year, the 
          Secretary shall submit to Congress a report containing an 
          assessment of--
                      (A) the resource needs for import and entry 
                  agricultural inspection, including the number of 
                  inspectors required;
                      (B) the adequacy of--
                              (i) inspection and monitoring procedures 
                          and facilities in the United States; and
                              (ii) the strategic plan developed under 
                          subsection (e)(5)(B)(i); and
                      (C) new and potential technologies and practices, 
                  including recommendations regarding the technologies 
                  and practices, to improve import and entry agricultural 
                  inspection.
              (4) Funding.--The Secretary shall pay the costs of each 
          import and entry agricultural inspector employed by the Animal 
          and Plant Health Inspection Service--
                      (A) from amounts made available to the Department 
                  of Agriculture for the applicable fiscal year; or
                      (B) if amounts described in subparagraph (A) are 
                  unavailable, from amounts of the Commodity Credit 
                  Corporation.
      (g) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section take 
  effect on the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
  Act.
target: Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
  
  Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections.
feat_title: A bill to restore import and entry agricultural inspection functions to the Department of Agriculture.