Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act
Latest action · Jun 26, 2018 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 487.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 3, 2017
- Passed HouseJun 25, 2018
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act
(Sec. 2) This bill reauthorizes through FY2023 the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998.
(Sec. 3) The Governmental Accountability Office must compare the unit costs of hydrographic surveys conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the unit costs of procuring the surveys.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jan 3, 2017Markup May 8, 2018Reported Jun 12, 2018 |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred Feb 10, 2017Hearings Nov 2, 2017Discharged May 8, 2018 |
Actions 15
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 26, 2018Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 487.
- Jun 25, 2018Mr. Young (AK) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Jun 25, 2018Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5590-5591)
- Jun 25, 2018DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 221.
- Jun 25, 2018Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5590-5591)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H5590, H5591Text printed H5590 | Anthony G. Brown D-MD, Don Young R-AK | Jun 25, 2018 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- May 22, 2018H.R. 221, Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on May 8, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 1, January 3, 2017, page H53.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 115-26 | H.R. 221, "HYDROGRAPHIC SERVICES IMPROVEMENT AMENDMENTS ACT"; H.R. 1176, "KEEP AMERICA'S WATERFRONTS WORKING ACT"; AND S. 140, TO AMEND THE WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE WATER RIGHTS QUANTIFICATION ACT OF 2010 TO CLARIFY THE USE OF AMOUNTS IN THE WMAT SETTLEMENT FUND49 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Nov 2, 2017 |
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 140 | Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018 | Related bill | Dec 4, 2018 |
| S 171 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Amendments and Hydrographic Services Improvement Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2017 | Related bill | Nov 7, 2017 |
| HR 2743 | Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act of 2015 | Reintroduction of | Jul 1, 2015 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To reauthorize the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 26, 2018Placed on Calendar Senate
- Jun 25, 2018Engrossed in House
- Jun 12, 2018Reported in House
- Jan 3, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
