PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · HR

H.R. 5136 (103rd)

Offshore Supply Vessel Construction and Development Act of 1994

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

29 September 1994

Last action

Status

Referred to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

26 August 2025

Summary

Offshore Supply Vessel Construction and Development Act of 1994 - Amends Federal shipping law to revise the definition of offshore supply vessel to include vessels of more than 15 international gross tons and not more than a maximum number of international gross tons prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation. Makes provisions governing the carriage of dangerous cargoes inapplicable to offshore supply vessels and fishing or fish tender vessels of more than 750 regulatory gross tons. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the manning and licensing of able seamen on offshore supply vessels of at least 1600 international gross tons. Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations for vessel pollution response plans for domestic operations of certain offshore supply vessels.

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.