SEAS Act

Bill: 113-hr-1678
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2013-04-23
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Buy American requirements

Food assistance and relief

Foreign aid and international relief

Marine and inland water transportation
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Saving Essential American Sailors Act or SEAS Act - Amends the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) to repeal the Act's repeal of the agricultural export requirements that: (1) 25% of the gross tonnage of certain agricultural commodities or their products exported each fiscal year be transported on U.S. commercial vessels, and (2) the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) finance any increased ocean freight charges incurred in the transportation of such items.</p> <p>Revives and reinstates those repealed requirements to read as if they were never repealed.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1678 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 23, 2013 Mr. Cummings (for himself, Mr. Rigell , Mr. Rahall , Mr. Garamendi , Mr. Larsen of Washington , Ms. Pingree of Maine , Mr. LaMalfa , Mr. Pocan , Mr. Grimm , and Mr. Young of Alaska ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services , and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure , 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 A BILL To amend title 46, United States Code, to reinstate provisions requiring that a percentage of aid provided by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Commodity Credit Corporation in the form of certain agricultural commodities or their products must be transported on commercial vessels of the United States, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Saving Essential American Sailors Act or the SEAS Act . 2. Reinstatement of requirement to transport agricultural-commodity aid on commercial vessels of the United States Section 100124 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law 112–141) is repealed, and the provisions of law that were repealed or amended by that section are revived and amended, respectively, to read as if such section were not enacted.