[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
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[H.R. 5302 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.5302

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four


                                 An Act


 
   To designate the Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. 
   Customs and Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, 
          Puerto Rico, as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine Unit''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
     This Act may be cited as the ``Michel O. Maceda Memorial Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
     Congress finds the following:
        (1) Marine Interdiction Agent Michel O. Maceda served honorably 
    in the United States Army as a wheeled vehicle mechanic prior to 
    joining the United States Border Patrol as an Agent in Douglas, 
    Arizona, in April 2016.
        (2) Agent Maceda became a Marine Interdiction Agent with U.S. 
    Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations in 
    Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 2021.
        (3) On November 17, 2022, Agent Maceda and 2 other agents were 
    conducting a drug interdiction stop off the coast of Puerto Rico, 
    during which the agents boarded the target vessel.
        (4) During the stop, Agent Maceda was mortally wounded when 1 
    of the occupants of the vessel shot the boarding agents with a 
    firearm.
        (5) Agent Maceda is survived by his daughter, brother, and 
    parents.
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION.
    The Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, 
shall forever be known and designated as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine 
Unit''.
SEC. 4. REFERENCES.
    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the marine unit referred to in section 3 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine 
Unit''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.