A bill to amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1920.

Summary

Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, to suspend regulations prohibiting the transportation of forest products to the east and gulf coasts of the United States and to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from any ports on the west coast of the United States in vessels neither built in nor documented under the laws of the U.S. Allows such vessels to be used whenever the Secretary of Commerce determines that domestic vessels are unavailable for such transportation. Specifies conditions under which such suspension shall terminate.

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Timeline

1. 13 May 1981

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 13 May 1981

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 13 May 1981

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 18 May 1981

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Merchant Marine.

   Source: Committee

5. 18 May 1981

   Committee

   Executive Comment Requested from Commerce, DOD, Federal Maritime Comm, Justice, Labor, Transportation.

   Source: Committee

6. 18 June 1981

   Committee

   Executive Comment Received From Federal Maritime Comm.

   Source: Committee

7. 23 June 1981

   Committee

   Subcommittee Hearings Held.

   Source: Committee

8. 8 September 1981

   Committee

   Executive Comment Received From Commerce.

   Source: Committee

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 13 May 1981

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Rep. McCloskey, Paul N., Jr. [R-CA-12] · R · Sponsor
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