HOUSE 221115th CongressReceived in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 487.
Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act
- Last Action
- 6/26/2018
Actions
- 2018-06-26Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 487.
- 2018-06-25Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2018-06-25On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5590-5591)
- 2018-06-25Passed/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)
- 2018-06-25DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 221.
- 2018-06-25Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5590-5591)
- 2018-06-25Mr. Young (AK) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 2018-06-12Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 571.
- 2018-06-12Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-736.
- 2018-06-12Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-736.
- 2018-05-08Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- 2018-05-08Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- 2018-05-08Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Discharged.
- 2017-11-02Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- 2017-02-10Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
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CRS Summary
As of 2018-06-25 (36)
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.
Subjects
- Arctic Ocean
- Arctic and polar regions
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Commerce
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government studies and investigations
- Hydrology and hydrography
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
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