Ferry Safety Enhancement Act of 2005
Latest action · May 13, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Progress
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- IntroducedMay 12, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ferry Safety Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends Federal shipping law to treat as a passenger vessel any vessel that carries more than 399 passengers.
Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to: (1) prescribe regulations that require such passenger vessels be equipped with a voyage data recorder; and (2) require vessel pilots to submit their annual physical examination results to the Coast Guard. Sets forth a criminal penalty for persons who falsify physical examination reports.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 13, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
- May 12, 2005Introduced in House
- May 12, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Administrative procedure
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Coast guard
- Data banks
- Department of Defense
- Department of Homeland Security
- Electronics in navigation
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fraud
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Marine safety
- Medical records
- Passenger ships
- Physical examinations
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation workers
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 12, 2005Introduced in House
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