HR2035Passed House
American Cargo for American Ships Act
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-03-11
Introduced
1
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Salud O. Carbajal
Democrat · CA · Representative
Votes with party: 97.6% (667 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/C001112
Source: Congress.gov · FEC
Cosponsors (1)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2025-06-10
Source: Congress.gov
Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationReferred To · 2025-06-10
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureReported By · 2025-06-06
Previously
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureDischarged from · 2025-04-02
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureMarkup By · 2025-04-02
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureReferred To · 2025-03-11
Plain-English Summary
American Cargo for American Ships Act This bill requires 100% of equipment, materials, and commodities procured, furnished, or financed by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and transported on ocean vessels to be transported on U.S.-flagged commercial vessels. (Current cargo preference laws require that a minimum percentage of federally financed ocean cargo be transported on U.S.-flagged commercial vessels. For civilian agencies and agricultural cargo, the minimum is generally 50%.) Specifically, the bill imposes the requirement on DOT (for cargo it contracts for or procures for itself) and recipients of DOT funding (for cargo DOT has financed with federal funds or advanced funds for the recipient to obtain). As under current cargo preference laws, the requirement applies to the extent those vessels are available at fair and reasonable rates for U.S.-flagged commercial vessels, in a manner that will ensure fair and reasonable participation of U.S.-flagged commercial vessels by geographic area.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
Transportation and Public Works
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