Coast Guard Regulation Relief Act of 2014

Coast Guard Regulation Relief Act of 2014 - Amends federal shipping law to revise requirements for recording of a notice of a claim of a maritime lien.

Declares that a notice shall expire three years after it is recorded. (Currently, expires three years after the lien was established.)

Authorizes a person to re-record an expired notice if that person submits to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) a declaration that the information in the notice is accurate to the best of the person's knowledge, information, and belief. Extends the re-recorded notice for another three years.

Declares that the expiration of a notice may not be construed to have any effect on the validity of a claim of lien.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4770 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4770

To amend title 46, United States Code, with respect to notices of claim 
               of maritime lien, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 29, 2014

Mr. Murphy of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred 
         to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 46, United States Code, with respect to notices of claim 
               of maritime lien, 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 ``Coast Guard Regulation Relief Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. NOTICES OF CLAIM OF MARITIME LIEN.

    Section 31343 of title 46, United States Code, is amended by 
striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
    ``(e)(1) A notice of claim of lien recorded under subsection (b) 
shall expire 3 years after the date on which such notice is recorded.
    ``(2) A person may re-record a notice that has expired under 
paragraph (1) or (3) if the person submits to the Secretary a 
declaration stating that the information in the notice remains true and 
correct to the best of the knowledge, information, and belief of the 
person.
    ``(3) A notice re-recorded under paragraph (2) shall expire 3 years 
after the date on which such notice was last re-recorded.
    ``(4) Expiration of a notice under this subsection may not be 
construed to have any effect on the validity of a claim of lien.''.
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