Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1991

Summary

Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1991 - 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 of bridges; (6) environmental compliance; and (7) oil pollution response. Authorizes the Coast Guard end strength for active duty personnel and the average military training student load. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Congress on the functions, powers, and duties vested in the Secretary and exercised through the Commandant of the Coast Guard that would be transferred to the Secretary of the Navy when the Coast Guard operates as a service of the Navy. Amends Federal law to modify requirements and procedures regarding enlisted personnel boards and involuntary retirement. Declares such provisions inapplicable to reductions in force ordered by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating. Authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to accept the services of individuals ordered to perform community service by a court. Authorizes the Commandant to enter into a lease for at least 30 years with an option to renew at the option of the Commandant to acquire a site at the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Authorizes the Coast Guard to spend appropriated amounts for the construction and renovation of housing units at the site. Extends the termination date of the Coast Guard's Advisory Committee to the Academy. Amends the Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act to require every power vessel of twenty meters or over in length (currently, every power vessel of three hundred gross tons and upward) to have a radiotelephone capable of operation from its navigational bridge. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to submit to the Congress a report on Coast Guard housing. Repeals provisions of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1988 amending Federal law to require the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to submit to specified congressional committees a two-year budget estimate. Authorizes a specified vessel to transport a limited number of passengers when the North Carolina Maritime Museum operates the vessel for educational purposes. Establishes the Houston-Galveston Navigation Safety Advisory Committee. Amends provisions of Federal law relating to the use of fire-retardant materials in certain passenger vessels to change from 1993 to 1998 the date on which certain requirements apply to vessels in operation before 1968. Requires the owner or operator of a vessel exempted from such provisions to notify the Coast Guard of structural alterations to the vessel and to comply with any combustible material requirements the Coast Guard prescribes consistent with preservation of the historic integrity of the vessel. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) request reimbursement from the Secretary of the Treasury for all costs incurred after FY 1990 by the Coast Guard in providing security for the President and his family at or near Kennebunkport, Maine; and (2) notify the Congress if all costs are not reimbursed. Prohibits, for the purposes of the Presidential Protection Assistance Act, deeming such services to be temporary.

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN

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• Referred in Senate (text)

  Referred in Senate · EN

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN

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• Enrolled Bill (text)

  Enrolled Bill · EN

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• Engrossed in House (text)

  Engrossed in House · EN

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• Engrossed Amendment Senate (text)

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• Engrossed Amendment House (text)

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• Committee Discharged Senate (text)

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 20 December 1991

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• House agreed to Senate amendment with amendment

  summary · EN · 25 November 1991

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 18 July 1991

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 26 June 1991

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 16 April 1991

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