Title: FISH SAFE Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Funding Instruction for Safety, Health, and Security Avoids Fishing Emergencies Act or the FISH SAFE Act
This bill reauthorizes through FY2021 and expands the Department of Health and Human Services fishing safety training and research grant programs.
The federal share of the costs of any activity that may be carried out using grants under the programs is increased to 75%. Currently, the federal share must not exceed 50%.
The bill is retroactively effective.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1410 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1410

   To amend the Federal share of the fishing safety standards grants.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 9, 2019

  Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Sullivan, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. King, Ms. 
     Collins, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. Warren, Ms. Hassan, and Mr. Reed) 
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 amend the Federal share of the fishing safety standards grants.

    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 ``Funding Instruction for Safety, 
Health, and Security Avoids Fishing Emergencies Act'' or the ``FISH 
SAFE Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL SHARE OF THE FISHING SAFETY STANDARDS 
              GRANTS.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 4502 of title 46, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (i)(3), by striking ``50'' and inserting 
        ``75''; and
            (2) in subsection (j)(3), by striking ``50'' and inserting 
        ``75''.
    (b) Retroactive Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection 
(a) takes effect on the day after the date of enactment of the Frank 
LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-282).

SEC. 3. REIMBURSEMENT.

    Amounts appropriated to carry out section 4502 of title 46, United 
States Code, under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public 
Law 115-31), shall be available until not later than September 30, 
2020, in order for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 
provide a reimbursement or supplement to a recipient of a grant under 
the Fishing Safety Training Grants Program under section 4502(i) of 
title 46, United States Code, or the Fishing Safety Research Grant 
Program under section 4502(j) of title 46, United States Code, in an 
amount that is equal to, for any non-Federal share provided by such 
grant recipient under such Program that is more than 25 percent, the 
amount of such excess non-Federal share expended or included in the 
approved budget by such grant recipient.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS AMENDMENTS.

    Section 4502 of title 46, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (i)(4), by striking ``2019'' and 
        inserting ``2021''; and
            (2) in subsection (j)(4), by striking ``2019'' and 
        inserting ``2021''.
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