To require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to monitor efforts by the People's Republic of China to build or buy strategic foreign ports, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Sep 24, 2024 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
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.
- IntroducedJun 11, 2024
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors 16
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 13, 2024 to Sep 24, 2024.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-GU | James C. Moylan | Jun 13, 2024 | |
| R-KY | Andy Barr | Jun 25, 2024 | |
| R-FL | Byron Donalds | Jun 25, 2024 | |
| R-ND | Kelly Armstrong | Jun 25, 2024 | |
| R-NY | Michael Lawler | Jun 26, 2024 | |
| R-IA | Zachary Nunn | Jun 26, 2024 | |
| R-MO | Blaine Luetkemeyer | Jun 27, 2024 | |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Jun 27, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Jun 27, 2024 | |
| R-FL | Maria Elvira Salazar | Jun 27, 2024 | |
| R-MS | Michael Guest | Jun 27, 2024 | |
| R-IL | Mike Bost | Jun 27, 2024 | |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Aug 30, 2024 | |
| R-SC | Joe Wilson | Sep 23, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Sep 24, 2024 | |
| R-CA | Young Kim | Sep 24, 2024 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Jun 11, 2024Markup Sep 24, 2024 |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Jun 11, 2024 |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Jun 11, 2024 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 24, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Sep 24, 2024Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Jun 11, 2024Introduced in House
- Jun 11, 2024Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Oct 25, 2024H.R. 8683, Strategic Ports Reporting ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 24, 2024
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 170, no. 98, June 11, 2024, page H3726.
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. 118-135 | MARKUP OF VARIOUS MEASURES197 pages | Foreign Affairs Committee | Sep 24, 2024 |
Titles 1
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to monitor efforts by the People's Republic of China to build or buy strategic foreign ports, and for other purposes.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 11, 2024Introduced 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.
