{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-4275","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 4275","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard, to establish the Secretary of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard, to establish the Secretary of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025"},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard, to establish the Secretary of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short 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physical, forensic and documentary evidence of rape or sexual assault kept not less than 50 years.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 502","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HD5214E397A2740BA8044B05DCC7940D7"}},{"text":"Changes the sea service periods required for merchant mariner deck and entry-level credentials and allows approved training days to be substituted for days of sea service.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 301","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H3E7FCD4F6F824C769CE079B443DA1DEA"}},{"text":"Establishes a Board of Visitors to the Coast Guard Academy with congressional and presidentially designated members, and requires it to meet at least annually.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 261","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H0671091F7BE84134B7DF8C2F7A968C51"}},{"text":"Prohibits owners and operators from abandoning non-barge vessels on navigable waters, authorizes a civil penalty of not more than $500, and requires a national inventory of abandoned vessels.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 347","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H678BB782F0814F459763F258872BFDBC"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"off_subject","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 203","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H0AF8122EA89D4152AC19F8B2896F5805"},"heading":"Special Advisor to Commandant for Tribal and Native Hawaiian Affairs","effect":"Creates a Special Advisor to the Commandant for Tribal and Native Hawaiian Affairs in the Coast Guard and requires briefings to committees on the position and on research collaboration with Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations.","amount":null,"quote":"there shall be in the Coast Guard a Special Advisor to the Commandant for Tribal and Native Hawaiian Affairs"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 204","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H073E4B63CECA4170AAD5CC8B2AC86142"},"heading":"Reinstatement of training course on workings of Congress","effect":"Replaces the existing Coast Guard training course on the workings of Congress and requires a separate in-person course for congressional affairs personnel.","amount":null,"quote":"The Commandant, and such other individuals and organizations as the Commandant considers appropriate, shall develop a training course on the workings of Congress and offer such training course at least once each year."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 205","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HD68B2E4FB03C446CB3A351B6A2FEF28B"},"heading":"Services and use of funds for, and leasing of, the National Coast Guard Museum","effect":"Amends the authority for the National Coast Guard Museum to cover design, engineering, construction administration and quality assurance services, and allows the Coast Guard to lease the Museum and adjacent property from the Association.","amount":null,"quote":"for the purpose of conducting Coast Guard operations, lease from the Association—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 211","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H2206C9B93586405498A666B77B51B0A5"},"heading":"Public availability of information","effect":"Moves and amends a requirement to publish information on drug and person interdictions, including numbers, drug types, unaccompanied minors, and Coast Guard sectors where incidents occurred.","amount":null,"quote":"The number of incidents in which drugs were interdicted, the amount and type of drugs interdicted"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 212","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H6DBF3EF9E44F47B9B72B2C3D4BC4E877"},"heading":"Cyber coordination and support in foreign territories","effect":"Allows the Coast Guard to coordinate with foreign entities on cyber prevention and response assistance for marine transportation systems outside the United States, with reimbursement authority.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary, acting through the Commandant, may coordinate with a foreign entity to provide cyber prevention and response assistance"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 213","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H634F2EFAC2CC466EB0677039C49C9A9C"},"heading":"Modification of treatment of minor construction and improvement project management","effect":"Raises a dollar threshold in the minor construction project management provision from $1,500,000 to $4,000,000.","amount":null,"quote":"Section 903(d)(1) of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking “$1,500,000” and inserting “$4,000,000”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 214","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HA02F6B0C6D0243888738D3301A3DB47F"},"heading":"Preparedness plans for Coast Guard properties located in tsunami inundation zones","effect":"Requires location-specific tsunami preparedness plans for Coast Guard properties in tsunami inundation zones, with annual exercises and a briefing to committees.","amount":null,"quote":"develop a location-specific tsunami preparedness plan for each property concerned."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 215","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HC4216867D3E74385BF9EAAF41FC2221E"},"heading":"Additional Pribilof Island transition completion actions","effect":"Adds to quarterly reports the status of use of renovated Coast Guard facilities on St. Paul Island, Alaska, and a plan for a hangar near the St. Paul airport.","amount":null,"quote":"the status of the use of recently renovated Coast Guard housing facilities, food preparation facilities, and maintenance and repair facilities on St. Paul Island, Alaska"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 216","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HA3310E1AB9F746A9B446B9D49C6AE082"},"heading":"Scientific mission for USCGC Storis","effect":"Amends the law on the USCGC Storis scientific mission, requiring a memorandum of agreement for research use by the Under Secretary and barring fees to the Under Secretary or other agreement parties.","amount":null,"quote":"The Commandant may not charge the Under Secretary or any other entity with whom the Commandant enters into a memorandum of agreement under subparagraph (A) any fee related to use or operation of any vessel acquired under this section."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 217","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HFEB6A4A999F040088081520693A311BD"},"heading":"Coast Guard access to Department of the Treasury fund","effect":"Amends the Department of the Treasury forfeiture fund statute to treat the Coast Guard as a Treasury law enforcement organization and eliminates separate Coast Guard funds.","amount":null,"quote":"the United States Coast Guard with respect to any law of the United States which the Coast Guard is authorized to enforce, assist in the enforcement of, or administer pursuant to section 102, 522, or 525 of title 14"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 241","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H050CD44E0C3D46F28D6912F94B9D3A0C"},"heading":"Family leave policies for Coast Guard","effect":"Amends Coast Guard family leave policy to cover reserve component members and placement of a minor child for adoption or long-term foster care, and allows leave to be taken after the one-year period in certain cases.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary of Defense promulgates a new regulation for members of the reserve component of the Coast Guard pursuant to section 711 of title 10"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 242","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HE6B3C84AA19E4E05AE6405638091CF81"},"heading":"Modifications to career flexibility program","effect":"Shortens a time period in the career flexibility program from 2 months to 30 days and adds benefit and access provisions for participating members, including victims of alleged sex-related offenses.","amount":null,"quote":"in the case of a victim of an alleged sex-related offense (as such term is defined in section 1044e(h) of title 10) to the maximum extent practicable, maintaining access to—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 243","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H606F8D9296F94D96BA0DC98D5F9D90E0"},"heading":"Direct hire authority for certain personnel","effect":"Lets the Commandant hire candidates for listed Coast Guard positions without regard to most competitive-service hiring rules, when there is a shortage or critical hiring need, through September 30, 2030.","amount":null,"quote":"The Commandant may appoint, without regard to the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 33 (other than sections 3303 and 3328 of such chapter) of title 5, qualified candidates"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 244","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H3DA6B352AB6F4798A3B8689B2002C584"},"heading":"Command sponsorship for dependents of members of Coast Guard assigned to Unalaska, Alaska","effect":"Requires the Commandant, on request, to grant command sponsorship to dependents of Coast Guard members assigned to Unalaska, Alaska.","amount":null,"quote":"On request by a member of the Coast Guard assigned to Unalaska, Alaska, the Commandant shall grant command sponsorship to the dependents of such member."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 245","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H8968BDA054CB43BE8A73E696848363C3"},"heading":"Authorization for maternity uniform allowance for officers","effect":"Authorizes a cash maternity uniform allowance for pregnant Coast Guard officers, in an amount set by Secretary policy rather than in the text.","amount":null,"quote":"The Coast Guard may provide a cash allowance, in such amount as the Secretary shall determine by policy, to be paid to pregnant officer personnel for the purchase of maternity-related uniform items"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 246","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HA1E8DF15990A4EDAAA0CC6950DEBEBC3"},"heading":"Consolidation of authorities for college student precommissioning initiative","effect":"Rewrites the Coast Guard college student precommissioning program, including eligibility for institutions with at least 50 percent enrollment from listed groups, and allows other expenses of up to $25,000 per academic year.","amount":null,"quote":"an enrollment of undergraduate full-time equivalent students (as defined in section 312(e) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1058(e))) that is a total of at least 50 percent Black American, Hispanic American,"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 248","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HF1C7D65E229A44818AEAEF91B07A53A7"},"heading":"Behavioral health","effect":"Directs the Commandant to set up a pilot program placing behavioral health technicians at 3 or more Coast Guard clinics, ending September 30, 2029, and to hire at least 5 more behavioral health specialists.","amount":null,"quote":"shall establish and conduct a pilot program, to be known as the “Coast Guard Embedded Behavioral Health Technician Program”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 249","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HF8C23F0EE77A48208EA90E769257ACE3"},"heading":"Travel allowance for members of Coast Guard assigned to Alaska","effect":"Requires a policy reimbursing airfare for Coast Guard members assigned to a duty location in Alaska to travel within the United States or its territories, with the travel time treated as leave.","amount":null,"quote":"the member is assigned to a duty location in Alaska"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 250","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H0595B20E9BB14239B933BBD7AFFFEDB1"},"heading":"Tuition Assistance and Advanced Education Assistance Pilot Program","effect":"Creates a pilot program under which active-duty members who complete a sea duty tour get a 1-year cut in service obligation and a tuition assistance cap of up to double the standard cap; it ends 6 years after it is established.","amount":null,"quote":"shall establish a tuition assistance pilot program for active-duty members of the Coast Guard"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 251","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H5D96239D14874B3897E83AFA3B2D7A50"},"heading":"Recruitment, relocation, and retention incentive program for civilian firefighters employed by Coast Guard in remote locations","effect":"Requires an incentive program of recruitment, relocation and retention bonuses for civilian firefighters employed by the Coast Guard in remote locations, with locations identified by the Commandant.","amount":null,"quote":"To ensure uninterrupted operations by civilian firefighters employed by the Coast Guard in remote locations, the Commandant shall establish an incentive program for such firefighters"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 252","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H14C4A359E4194C26B140CEF55683B659"},"heading":"Notification","effect":"Requires the Commandant to notify committees before the end of each fiscal year or continuing resolution about funding status, the Coast Guard's status as an armed force, members serving overseas, and past shutdown impacts.","amount":null,"quote":"the fact that members of the Armed Forces have service requirements unlike those of other Federal employees, which require them to continue to serve even if unpaid"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 271","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H8498BE83821F47B488EF8CA413A02551"},"heading":"Policy and briefing on availability of naloxone to treat opioid, including fentanyl, overdoses","effect":"Requires the Coast Guard to update its overdose medication policy so naloxone or similar medication is available on all installations and in each operational environment, and to join a DoD tracking system.","amount":null,"quote":"shall require naloxone or other similar medication be available for members of the Coast Guard"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 272","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H420D739AF1144718AEB1FA2D1F87CBC9"},"heading":"Policy on methods to reduce incentives for illicit maritime drug trafficking","effect":"Requires the Commandant to develop a policy to address and interdict maritime trafficking of controlled substances and precursors, including seizure or disposal of vessels, and to brief committees on it.","amount":null,"quote":"address, disincentivize, and interdict illicit trafficking by sea of controlled substances (and precursors of controlled substances) being transported to produce illicit synthetic drugs"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 274","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HC7A18CBE13A14E7E9AC6E6B97C8D710A"},"heading":"Feasibility study on supporting additional port visits and deployments in support of Operation Blue Pacific","effect":"Requires a feasibility study of additional Coast Guard port visits and deployments in support of Operation Blue Pacific, including homeporting fast response cutters in the Northern Mariana Islands.","amount":null,"quote":"including the homeporting of fast response cutters in the Northern Mariana Islands, in support of Operation Blue Pacific"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 275","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H3C00EAA4C596462CA67039BEE49BD535"},"heading":"Study and gap analysis with respect to Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi aviation hangar","effect":"Requires a study and gap analysis of the aviation hangar at one named Coast Guard air station and its capacity for current and additional aircraft.","amount":null,"quote":"shall commence a study and gap analysis with respect to the aviation hangar at Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 276","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HED4863862B4947ADA8785844942539D2"},"heading":"Report on impacts of joint travel regulations on members of Coast Guard who rely on ferry systems","effect":"Requires a report on how the Joint Travel Regulations affect Coast Guard members who travel to or from locations served by ferry systems.","amount":null,"quote":"on the impacts of the Joint Travel Regulations on members of the Coast Guard who are commuting, on permanent change of station travel, or on other official travel to or from locations served by ferry systems"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 277","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H933025F0205B4F39823ECBABBEF946E8"},"heading":"Report on Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program","effect":"Requires a report on the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, including participating schools, funding by school and year, and whether to expand it.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 278","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H4558E833471349EBB40B0703FA8FC785"},"heading":"Report and briefings on implementing section 564 of title 14","effect":"Requires the Commandant to brief committees on the cost to the Coast Guard of meeting the requirements of section 564 of title 14 in fiscal years 2024, 2025 and 2026.","amount":null,"quote":"on the cost to the Coast Guard of meeting the requirements of section 564 of title 14, United States Code, in fiscal year 2024"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 279","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HB8311ADC5D12479DBD6B1114B2A8CB5E"},"heading":"Report on role of Coast Guard","effect":"Requires the Secretary of Defense to report on the role the Coast Guard is expected to play in assisting the military departments over the next 5, 10 and 20 years.","amount":null,"quote":"providing a presence in the Arctic and Antarctic to protect United States sovereign national security interests in the regions"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 280","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H9E93D9D21569468C86FFCCEFB2736E9F"},"heading":"Report on Coast Guard personnel skills","effect":"Requires a report analyzing Coast Guard personnel skills transferable to the dredging industry and a plan for outreach and recruitment of separating personnel into that industry.","amount":null,"quote":"skills and experience of Coast Guard personnel, particularly such personnel with backgrounds in engineering, navigation, heavy equipment operation, and maintenance, that are directly transferable to the dredging industry"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 281","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HBCB49CA2D1AC4AA9A76A597BF62303EF"},"heading":"Report on Coast Guard search and rescue operations","effect":"Requires an annual report on search and rescue operations at Coast Guard facilities or stations designated as schedule mission stations or closed under the Assignment Year 2024 or 2025 Force Alignment Initiative.","amount":null,"quote":"the term impacted Coast Guard facility means a facility or station that was designated as a schedule mission station or closed under either the Assignment Year 2024 Force 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certificates.","amount":null,"quote":"provide all data possessed by the Coast Guard for a ballast water management system with a type approval certificate approved by the Coast Guard"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 342","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HEBAEBD447682491DB3392B1F00679B23"},"heading":"Clarification of authorities","effect":"Amends the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 to make the Maritime Administration lead agency for environmental review, and moves certain Coast Guard deepwater port authorities to the Secretary of Transportation within 18 months, except for applications submitted before enactment.","amount":null,"quote":"For all applications, the Maritime Administration shall be the Federal lead agency for purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 344","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H75F2802A7373417BA4B6283CB56D7F4C"},"heading":"Extension of pilot 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availability of Coast Guard behavioral health care and resources for personnel wellness","effect":"Directs the Comptroller General to review the quality and availability of behavioral health care for Coast Guard personnel, starting with Training Center Cape May, then the Coast Guard Academy and other training locations.","amount":null,"quote":"first review the practices and policies relating to the availability of behavioral health care and related resources at Training Center Cape May"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 603","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HE77DB82EFA6B4C33BE1FB88C22785C7D"},"heading":"Comptroller General study on Coast Guard efforts to reduce prevalence of missing or incomplete medical records and sharing of medical data with Department of Veterans Affairs and other entities","effect":"Directs the Comptroller General to study Coast Guard efforts to reduce missing or incomplete medical records and to share medical data with the Department of Veterans Affairs.","amount":null,"quote":"to reduce the prevalence of missing or incomplete medical records;"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 234","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H721CD8E42CF940FA9C44815AFFACDE90"},"heading":"Great Lakes icebreaking","effect":"Requires a strategy for a Great Lakes icebreaker and a Bay class tug replacement report, and creates a five-season pilot program on keeping Great Lakes waterways open.","amount":null,"quote":"the Commandant shall conduct a pilot program to determine the extent to which the Coast Guard Great Lakes icebreaking cutter fleet is capable of maintaining tier one and tier two waterways open 95 percent of the time"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 504","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H592CF0A5EE564D9B9070B9080D0D9AA0"},"heading":"Designation of officers with particular expertise in military justice or healthcare","effect":"Lets the Secretary designate a limited number of Coast Guard officers with expertise in military justice or healthcare, who are off the active duty promotion list and capped at the grade of captain.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary may designate a limited number of officers of the Coast Guard as having particular expertise in—"}]},{"category":"narrow_beneficiary","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 268","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H8760C966EC1A4878B396F803D88439E4"},"heading":"Authorization for use of Coast Guard Academy facilities and equipment by covered foundations","effect":"Lets the Secretary authorize a defined category of nonprofit foundations to use Coast Guard Academy facilities or equipment, on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, may authorize a covered foundation to use, on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis as determined by the Secretary, facilities or equipment of the Coast Guard Academy."}]},{"category":"named_funding","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 405","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HF2A05F40FA9141408D41944F97E5190D"},"heading":"Investment of Exxon Valdez oil spill court recovery in high yield investments and marine research","effect":"Amends the law governing Exxon Valdez oil spill court recovery funds, allowing deposits in outside accounts and directing that grants prioritize habitat protection and restoration.","amount":null,"quote":"The term Consent Decree means the consent decree issued in United States v. Exxon Corporation, et al. (No. A91–082 CIV)"}]},{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 232","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HFB5DE9EFE1724439BA60050AE77A7B26"},"heading":"Acquisition improvements","effect":"Exempts Coast Guard service life extension programs from the requirements that apply to Level 1 and Level 2 acquisition projects.","amount":null,"quote":"Requirements for a Level 1 or Level 2 acquisition project or program under sections 1131 through 1134 shall not apply to an acquisition by the Coast Guard that is a service life extension program."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 235","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H9DC6705E902F4B82836B2226B202A5E4"},"heading":"Entity other than the Coast Guard","effect":"Notwithstanding section 1105(a) of title 14, lets the Commandant have an entity other than the Coast Guard contract for the Arctic Security Cutters and other vessels funded under section 40001 of Public Law 119–21.","amount":null,"quote":"Notwithstanding section 1105(a) of title 14, United States Code, the Commandant may provide for an entity other than the Coast Guard to contract for the acquisition, procurement, or construction of—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 301","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H3E7FCD4F6F824C769CE079B443DA1DEA"},"heading":"Merchant mariner credentialing","effect":"Allows, from enactment through December 31, 2065, up to 50 percent of unlicensed seamen on certain vessels to be aliens of the kinds described in the cited paragraph, notwithstanding the existing limit in subparagraph (A).","amount":null,"quote":"ending on December 31, 2065, not more than 50 percent of the unlicensed seamen on a vessel described in paragraph (1) may be aliens referred to in subparagraph (B) or (C) of such paragraph."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 332","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H95BB3F553C9A428490C4FF6A781FB5B0"},"heading":"Pilot program for governance and oversight of small uncrewed maritime systems","effect":"For 2 years after enactment, exempts small uncrewed maritime systems owned, operated, or chartered by NOAA, or surveying under a NOAA agreement, from vessel inspection, design, operations, navigation, credentialing, and training requirements that a NOAA official determines would harm data collection.","amount":null,"quote":"shall not be subject to any vessel inspection, design, operations, navigation (except for chapter 551 of title 46, United States Code), credentialing, or training requirement, law, or regulation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 346","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H3C46846BD0A544D6A300CC6A96C3AE08"},"heading":"Classification societies","effect":"Changes conditions for delegating authority to foreign classification societies and states that nothing authorizes a delegation to a classification society from the People’s Republic of China.","amount":null,"quote":"Nothing in this subsection authorizes the Secretary to make a delegation under paragraph (2) to a classification society from the People’s Republic of China."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 348","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H0C3438189C644C76870967F68C289D56"},"heading":"Offshore operations","effect":"Extends vessel fuel-transfer provisions to non-mineral energy production, and if the Commandant does not amend regulations and a manual within 60 days, directs the Secretary not to apply section 3702 to certain non-tanker vessels transferring fuel to offshore facilities.","amount":null,"quote":"then the Secretary shall in lieu of such section not apply section 3702 of title 46, United States Code, to a documented vessel transferring fuel from the fuel supply tanks of such vessel to an offshore facility"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 406","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H28EBA9851DB74851AB3274BF6E0E8F8A"},"heading":"Additional response assets","effect":"Exempts certain vessels engaged in oil spill response from inspection when they operate in the Western Alaska or Prince William Sound Captain of the Port Zones, and repeals section 11316 of Public Law 117–263.","amount":null,"quote":"a qualified vessel engaged in a qualified oil spill response shall not be subject to inspection if the qualified vessel—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 233","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H618382ED7C78474D98ECEA64149A5FF0"},"heading":"Restriction on acquisition, procurement, or construction of vessels in foreign shipyards","effect":"Restates the bar on procuring vessels with major hull or superstructure components built in foreign shipyards, and lets the President authorize exceptions on national security grounds after written notice to committees.","amount":null,"quote":"The President may authorize exceptions to the prohibition in subsection (a) when the President determines that it is in the national security interest of the United States"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 312","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HE6A59701202B495E85CBD7CCE2E4F937"},"heading":"Performance driven examination schedule","effect":"Lets the Secretary adopt a performance-driven examination schedule that sets how often eligible foreign vessels are examined, instead of the annual examination, for vessels with no detention, proved violation or marine casualty in the last 36 months.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary may adopt a performance-driven examination schedule to which such vessels are to be examined and the frequency with which such examinations occur"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 102","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H34B3964A582F4F44A1A56895DCD47CC7"},"heading":"Authorized levels of military strength and training","effect":"Raises Coast Guard end strength and training levels for fiscal years 2025 through 2029, and delays application of 10 U.S.C. 517(a) to the Coast Guard until October 1, 2027.","amount":null,"quote":"Section 517(a) of title 10, United States Code, shall not apply with respect to the Coast Guard until October 1, 2027."}]},{"category":"rule_delay","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 316","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H653D9D481D2C4712A165853DCDDF4B99"},"heading":"St. Lucie River railroad bridge","effect":"Requires the Commandant to conduct an independent boat traffic study at mile 7.4 of the St. Lucie River before adopting a final rule in the named docket.","amount":null,"quote":"Regarding Docket Number USCG–2022–0222, before adopting a final rule, the Commandant shall conduct an independent boat traffic study at mile 7.4 of the St. Lucie River."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 317","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HB6DEF13CD5BA42F2913CB81FA5F50CF5"},"heading":"Large recreational vessel regulations","effect":"Changes the Act referenced in section 3529(a)(3) of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which is titled large recreational vessel regulations, from 'this Act' to the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025.","amount":null,"quote":"is amended by striking “this Act” and inserting “the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 327","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-HD460078256DA42D6B7ED219123F7E73B"},"heading":"Anchorages","effect":"Directs the Secretary to suspend establishing new anchorage grounds on a stretch of the Hudson River, and keeps the earlier Port of New York boundary points in place for 20 years.","amount":null,"quote":"shall suspend the establishment of new anchorage grounds on the Hudson River between Palisades, New York, and Germantown, New York"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 345","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H4E75ED43B9C6406C9573F29D34960E7B"},"heading":"Suspension of enforcement of use of devices broadcasting on AIS for purposes of marking fishing gear","effect":"Changes the end of a suspension of enforcement on the use of AIS-broadcasting devices to mark fishing gear to December 31, 2029.","amount":null,"quote":"is amended by striking “during the period” and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting “until December 31, 2029.”"}]},{"category":"process_change","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 403","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh#toc-H51D7B0EBD3B143869DBDFB9BEFDCF32A"},"heading":"Timing of review","effect":"Bars any person from bringing an action challenging an on-scene coordinator's decision about a removal action until the removal action is completed.","amount":null,"quote":"no person may bring an action under this Act, section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1321), or chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code, challenging any decision"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-07-23","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-29","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4275/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-4275.png","v":"cfae459d857a","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 4275, 119th Congress: Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025. House: 399 Yea, 12 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 23 Jul 2025."}}