PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · HR

H.R. 163 (109th)

Secure Domestic Container Partnership Act of 2005

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

4 January 2005

Last action

Status

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

15 August 2025

Summary

Secure Domestic Container Partnership Act of 2005 - Amends Federal shipping law to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out an empty shipping container sealing pilot program to encourage shipping container handlers to seal empty shipping containers after they have unpacked them. Allows the Secretary to authorize a shipper, cargo carrier, freight forwarder, terminal operator, port authority, or labor organization that is a qualified container handler to secure, under a seal approved by the Secretary, a shipping container that is emptied by the person. Requires the Secretary to issue requirements for treating a person as a qualified container handler under this Act.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

3 official files

Introduced in House (text)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.