Bill Text: NH HCR10 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Calling for the repeal of the Jones Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - Executive Session: 02/07/2025 01:30 pm Legislative Office Building 206-208 [HCR10 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HCR10-Introduced.html
HCR 10 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0133
07/02
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 10
A RESOLUTION calling for the repeal of the Jones Act.
SPONSORS: Rep. Moffett, Merr. 4; Rep. Tom Mannion, Hills. 1; Rep. Belcher, Carr. 4; Rep. D. McGuire, Merr. 14; Rep. Nalevanko, Ches. 9
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This concurrent resolution calls for the repeal of the Jones Act.
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25-0133
07/02
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
A RESOLUTION calling for the repeal of the Jones Act.
Whereas, for over 100 years, a federal law known as Jones Act has restricted water transportation of cargo between U.S. ports to ships that are U.S.-owned, U.S.-crewed, U.S.-registered, and U.S.-built to the detriment of national security considerations, and
Whereas, the U.S. economy endures artificially inflated shipping costs because the transport of cargo between U.S. ports and within the country’s vast inland waterways is off-limits to foreign competition and domestic shipping firms must pay vastly higher prices for the ships they use, and
Whereas, mandating the use of domestic tankers to transport oil significantly increases energy costs, and
Whereas, by forcing more carbon-intensive surface transportation methods into use, the Jones Act is responsible for creating unnecessary environmental costs, and
Whereas, artificially inflated waterborne shipping rates increase demand for alternative forms of transportation, including trucking, rail, and pipeline services, raising those modes’ rates and inflating business costs throughout the supply chain, and
Whereas, the Jones Act promotes protectionism at the expense of competition causing the American shipbuilding industry to fail to keep pace with demands and requirements; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House or Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the New Hampshire House of Representatives supports a termination of the Jones Act, and that copies of this resolution be delivered to the president of the United States, the majority and minority leaders in both houses of Congress, to the New Hampshire congressional delegation, and to the governor of the state of New Hampshire.
