Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1993 (S. 1052 (103rd)) — United States

Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Authorizations Title II: Personnel Management Improvement Title III: Navigation Safety and Waterway Service Management Title IV: Engineering and Development Amendments Title V: Educational Research Title VI: Passenger Vessel Safety Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1993 - Title I: Authorizations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for: (1) operation and maintenance; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation; (4) retirement pay and benefits; (5) alteration or removal of bridges; and (6) environmental compliance and restoration. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the Coast Guard end-of-year strength for active duty personnel and the average military training student loads. Title II: Personnel Management Improvement - (Sec. 201) Eliminates the ceiling on the number of active duty commissioned officers in the Coast Guard. (Sec. 202) Authorizes the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard to rank next after area commanders and have the rank of vice admiral. Removes a requirement that the rear admiral serving as Chief of Staff be the senior rear admiral for all purposes other than pay. (Sec. 203) Requires that officers serving in the grade of admiral and Rear admiral (including the Commandant, Vice Commandant, and Area Commanders) continue to hold that grade while being processed for physical disability retirement and while awaiting retirement. Replaces, in retirement provisions, references to the Commanders of the Atlantic and Pacific Areas with references to vice admirals. Removes references to the Chief of Staff from provisions relating to continuation on active duty and involuntary retirement of rear admirals and rear admirals (lower half). (Sec. 204) Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services for the maintenance and improvement of natural and historic resources, or to benefit natural and historic research, on Coast Guard facilities. (Sec. 205) Authorizes convening a retention board concerning Reserve officers who have 18 years or more of service. Title III: Navigation Safety and Waterway Service Management - (Sec. 301) Repeals provisions of the Act of June 25, 1936, requiring: (1) public notice of North Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel routes, adherence to the routes, and avoidance of fishing and ice regions; and (2) publication in the Federal Register of rules and regulations promulgated under provisions relating to ice and derelicts. (Sec. 302) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to prohibit inclusion of amounts previously appropriated from the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund to carry out provisions of Federal law relating to allocations for State recreational boating safety programs, but not distributed, when calculating whether the Boat Safety Account exceeds certain IRC limits. (Sec. 303) Amends Federal law to declare that a seagoing barge is not subject to inspection under specified provisions if the barge is unmanned and does not carry oil in bulk or a reportable or harmful quantity of a hazardous material. Title IV: Engineering and Development Amendments - (Sec. 401) Authorizes: (1) acquisition of real property for use as Coast Guard family housing units and disposal of any such property; and (2) improvement of buildings at Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. (Sec. 402) Grants the Secretary long-term lease authority for aids-to-navigation sites, vessel traffic service sensor sites, or National Distress System high level antenna sites. Title V: Educational Research - (Sec. 501) Authorizes the Coast Guard to compete for and accept Federal, State, or other educational research grants, provided that no award is accepted for the acquisition or construction of facilities, or for the routine functions of the Academy. Title VI: Passenger Vessel Safety - (Sec. 601) Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993 - Amends Federal shipping law relating to vessels and seamen to: (1) modify the definitions of "passenger," "passenger vessel," "small passenger vessel," "uninspected passenger vessel," "offshore supply vessel," and "sailing school vessel"; and (2) define "passenger for hire," "consideration," and "submersible vessel." (Sec. 611) Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to exempt excursion vessels and oceanographic research vessels from requirements of provisions relating to inspection and regulation of vessels, load lines of vessels, manning of vessels, and merchant seamen protection and relief. (Sec. 612) Directs the Secretary to require additional equipment or establish construction standards or additional operating standards for uninspected passenger vessels.

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Timeline

27 May 1993
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Source: IntroReferral
27 May 1993
Introduced
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6764-6765)
Source: IntroReferral
27 May 1993
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
6 October 1993
Reported
Committee on Commerce. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Source: Committee
20 November 1993
Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 325.
Source: Calendars
20 November 1993
Reported
Committee on Commerce. Reported to Senate by Senator Hollings with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 103-198.
Source: Committee
20 November 1993
Reported
Committee on Commerce. Reported to Senate by Senator Hollings with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 103-198.
Source: Committee
22 November 1993
Floor
Measure laid before Senate. (consideration: CR S16986-16992)
Source: Floor
24 May 1994
Floor
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6295)
Source: Floor

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Related records

related to → Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1993
amends ← SAMDT 1240

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1052
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Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1993