Title: OVERSEA Act of 2020
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Oversight and Verification of Expenses and Readiness for Security Engagements Abroad Act of 2020 or the OVERSEA Act of 2020
This bill directs the Government Accountability Office to report on the U.S. Coast Guard's allocation of resources to support its defense readiness mission, including an assessment of the impacts on the Coast Guard's nondefense mission readiness and operational capabilities due to the annual levels of funding provided by the Department of Defense to compensate the Coast Guard for its expenses to fulfill its defense readiness mission.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6146 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6146

  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to report on 
   Coast Guard defense readiness resource allocation, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2020

Mr. Brown of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition 
  to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to report on 
   Coast Guard defense readiness resource allocation, 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 ``Oversight and Verification of 
Expenses and Readiness for Security Engagements Abroad Act of 2020'' or 
the ``OVERSEA Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. REPORT COAST GUARD DEFENSE READINESS RESOURCES ALLOCATION.

    (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
House of Representatives, the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, a report on the 
allocation of resources by the Coast Guard to support its defense 
readiness mission.
    (b) Contents.--The report required by subsection (a) shall include 
the following elements:
            (1) Funding levels allocated by the Coast Guard to support 
        defense readiness missions for each of the past ten fiscal 
        years preceding the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Funding levels transferred or otherwise provided by the 
        Department of Defense to the Coast Guard in support of the 
        Coast Guard's defense readiness missions for each of the past 
        ten fiscal years preceding the date of enactment of this Act.
            (3) The number of Coast Guard detachments assigned in 
        support of the Coast Guard's defense readiness mission for each 
        of the past ten fiscal years preceding the date of enactment of 
        this Act.
    (c) Assessment.--In addition to the elements detailed in subsection 
(b), the report shall include an assessment of the impacts on the Coast 
Guard's non-defense mission readiness and operational capabilities due 
to the annual levels of reimbursement provided by the Department of 
Defense to compensate the Coast Guard for its expenses to fulfill its 
defense readiness mission.
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