United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 5351 (116th)
Short Sea Shipping Act of 2019
Introduced
6 December 2019
Last action
—
Status
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
3 January 2025
Summary
Short Sea Shipping Act of 2019 This bill exempts certain commercial cargo from the harbor maintenance excise tax. The exemption is for commercial cargo, other than bulk cargo, that (1) is loaded at a port in the United States mainland (i.e., the continental United States not including Alaska) and is unloaded at another port in the U.S. mainland after transport solely by coastal route or river, or a port in Canada located in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System; or (2) is loaded at a port in Canada located in the Great Lakes St.. Lawrence Seaway System and is unloaded at a port in the U.S. mainland.
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)
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House · EN · 6 December 2019
Introduced in House (PDF)
Introduced in House · EN · 6 December 2019
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 6 December 2019
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.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5351
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5351