SHIPYARD Act
- Last Action
- 4/28/2021
Actions
- 2021-04-28Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- 2021-04-28Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-04-28 (00)
Supplying Help to Infrastructure in Ports, Yards, and America's Repair Docks Act of 2021 or the SHIPYARD Act
This bill provides supplemental appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for improving naval shipyard infrastructure. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.
DOD must make this funding directly available to the Department of the Navy. Funds must be used for specified purposes, including for public and private shipyard facilities, docks, dry docks, capital equipment improvements, and dredging efforts needed by shipyards.
Cosponsors (18)
- Timothy Kaine (D-VA)
- Susan Collins (R-ME)
- Angus King (I-ME)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
- Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Bob Casey (D-PA)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
Subjects
- Appropriations
- Defense spending
- Hawaii
- Maine
- Marine and inland water transportation
- Military procurement, research, weapons development
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
- Public contracts and procurement
- Virginia
- Washington State
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