S2308-119

In Committee

PATRIOT Parks Act

119th Congress Introduced Jul 16, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, PATRIOT Parks Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Environment, Transportation.

Who Benefits and How

immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section idb5b2d0b0f8eb4322b0ac6c4ce79ff15c: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting America’s Treasures by Raising Inflow from Overseas Tourists Parks Act or the PATRIOT Parks Act.
  • Section ide39db7e0344e4e528df2da78e047796a: 2. Surcharge for international visitors to units of the National Park System Section 803(e) of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6802(e))...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, PATRIOT Parks Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Environment, Transportation

Primary Purpose

This bill, PATRIOT Parks Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Policy Domains

Immigration Environment Transportation

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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federal implementing agencies:
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Dec 9, 2025

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. …

Jul 16, 2025

Mr. Banks (for himself and Mr. Cotton) introduced the following …

Jul 16, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …

Jul 16, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Immigration Environment Transportation
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_homeland_security"
→ Secretary of Homeland Security

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"international visitor" §ide39db7e0344e4e528df2da78e047796a

a nonimmigrant individual admitted into the United States under—(i)section 101(a)(15)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(B))

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