SEAS Act

Saving Essential American Sailors Act or SEAS Act - Amends the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) to repeal the Act's repeal of the agricultural export requirements that: (1) 25% of the gross tonnage of certain agricultural commodities or their products exported each fiscal year be transported on U.S. commercial vessels, and (2) the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) finance any increased ocean freight charges incurred in the transportation of such items.

Revives and reinstates those repealed requirements to read as if they were never repealed.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6170 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6170

    To amend title 46, United States Code, to reinstate provisions 
    requiring that a percentage of aid provided by the Secretary of 
Agriculture or the Commodity Credit Corporation in the form of certain 
   agricultural commodities or their products must be transported on 
    commercial vessels of the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2012

   Mr. Cummings (for himself, Mr. Landry, Mr. Rahall, Mr. Larsen of 
 Washington, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Richmond, 
    Mr. Grimm, Mr. Bishop of New York, and Mrs. Miller of Michigan) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and 
   Infrastructure, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 46, United States Code, to reinstate provisions 
    requiring that a percentage of aid provided by the Secretary of 
Agriculture or the Commodity Credit Corporation in the form of certain 
   agricultural commodities or their products must be transported on 
    commercial vessels of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Saving Essential American Sailors 
Act'' or the ``SEAS Act''.

SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT OF REQUIREMENT TO TRANSPORT AGRICULTURAL-
              COMMODITY AID ON COMMERCIAL VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES.

    Section 100124 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century 
Act (Public Law 112-141) is repealed, and the provisions of law that 
were repealed or amended by that section are revived and amended, 
respectively, to read as if such section were not enacted.
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