US Congress House Bill 3548 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on June 27 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-11-17 - Committee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Addresses data collection and monitoring of the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts. Specifically, the bill increases domestic and international coordination to enhance data management and monitoring of the Great Lakes, oceans bays, estuaries, and coasts; creates the Interagency Ocean Exploration Committee to promote the exploration and improved understanding of the oceans; revises the Ocean Policy Committee to the Committee on Ocean Policy; establishes a technology innovation task force to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing; requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a workforce development program, including to support undergraduate and graduate education in fields related to the advancement of the monitoring, collection, synthesis, and analysis of data regarding the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts; requires NOAA to ensure that a goal of its cooperative institutes is to advance or apply emerging technologies; requires NOAA to establish opportunities to engage indigenous, subsistence, and fishing communities to better understand their needs; institutes an ocean innovation prize to catalyze the rapid development and deployment of data collection and monitoring technology; reauthorizes several NOAA programs, including the Ocean Exploration Program; directs relevant federal agencies to measure the value and impact of industries related to the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts on the U.S. economy; and requires the National Academy of Sciences to assess the potential for an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Oceans.

BLUE GLOBE Act Bolstering Long-Term Understanding and Exploration of the Great Lakes, Oceans, Bays, and Estuaries Act

Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Don Young [R-AK]	Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon [R-PR]	Rep. Ed Case [D-HI]
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Christopher Pappas [D-NH]	Rep. Brian Mast [R-FL]
Rep. Joseph Morelle [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-17	House	Committee Hearings Held.
2020-11-17	House	Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
2019-07-12	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
2019-06-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Education and Labor, 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.
2019-06-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Education and Labor, 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.
2019-06-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Education and Labor, 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.
2019-06-27	House	Introduced in House

SB933 (Same As) 2020-07-22 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3548/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr3548/BILLS-116hr3548ih.pdf