Title: To amend title 46, United States Code, to include certain passenger ferries as eligible and qualified vessels under Capital Construction Funds, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill makes certain ferries and passenger vessels eligible and qualified vessels for capital construction funds. U.S. citizens owning or leasing an eligible vessel may make an agreement with the Department of Transportation to establish a capital construction fund for such vessel to provide replacement vessels, additional vessels, or reconstructed vessels built in and documented under the laws of the United States.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6882 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6882

  To amend title 46, United States Code, to include certain passenger 
 ferries as eligible and qualified vessels under Capital Construction 
                     Funds, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2022

Mr. Garamendi introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 46, United States Code, to include certain passenger 
 ferries as eligible and qualified vessels under Capital Construction 
                     Funds, 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. DEFINITIONS OF ELIGIBLE AND QUALIFIED VESSELS.

    (a) Eligible Vessel.--Section 53501(2) of title 46, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(iii) by striking ``and'' at the 
        end;
            (2) in subparagraph (B)(v) by striking the period at the 
        end and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) a ferry, as such term is defined in section 
                2101; and
                    ``(D) a passenger vessel or small passenger vessel, 
                as such terms are defined in section 2101, that has a 
                passenger capacity of 50 passengers or greater.''.
    (b) Qualified Vessel.--Section 53501(5) of title 46, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(iii) by striking ``and'' at the 
        end;
            (2) in subparagraph (B)(v) by striking the period at the 
        end and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) a ferry, as such term is defined in section 
                2101; and
                    ``(D) a passenger vessel or small passenger vessel, 
                as such terms are defined in section 2101, that has a 
                passenger capacity of 50 passengers or greater.''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHING A CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION FUND.

    Section 53503(b) of title 46, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``(including transportation on a ferry, passenger vessel, or 
small passenger vessel, as such terms are defined in section 2101, that 
has a passenger capacity of 50 passengers or greater)'' after ``short 
sea transportation''.
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