Title: Domestic Maritime Centers of Excellence Act of 2017
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Domestic Maritime Centers of Excellence Act of 2017
This bill authorizes the Department of Transportation (DOT) to designate state-operated maritime training centers and community and technical colleges with a maritime training program that are located in the United States along the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Artic Ocean, Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, or Great Lakes as centers of excellence for domestic maritime workforce training and education.
DOT may provide to such centers: (1) technical assistance to assist them in expanding their capacity to train the U.S. maritime workforce, and (2) surplus federal equipment and assets.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1186 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1186

   To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to designate certain 
   entities as centers of excellence for domestic maritime workforce 
            training and education, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 18, 2017

  Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. 
   Kennedy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to designate certain 
   entities as centers of excellence for domestic maritime workforce 
            training and education, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Domestic Maritime Centers of 
Excellence Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. DOMESTIC MARITIME CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.

    (a) Designation Authority.--The Secretary of Transportation is 
authorized to designate community and technical colleges with a 
maritime training program and maritime training centers operated by or 
under the supervision of a State, if located in the United States along 
the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Bering 
Sea, Gulf of Alaska, or Great Lakes, as centers of excellence for 
domestic maritime workforce training and education.
    (b) Assistance.--
            (1) Types.--The Secretary may provide to an entity 
        designated as a center of excellence under subsection (a)--
                    (A) technical assistance; and
                    (B) surplus Federal equipment and assets.
            (2) Technical assistance.--The Secretary may provide 
        technical assistance under paragraph (1) to assist an entity 
        designated as a center of excellence under subsection (a) to 
        expand the capacity of the entity to train the domestic 
        maritime workforce of the United States, including by--
                    (A) admitting additional students;
                    (B) recruiting and training faculty;
                    (C) expanding facilities;
                    (D) creating new maritime career pathways; and
                    (E) awarding students credit for prior experience, 
                including military service.
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