Ensuring Coast Guard Readiness Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4952 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4952

  To authorize an exception to the prohibition on the construction of 
   Coast Guard vessels in foreign shipyards, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 12, 2025

 Mr. Kennedy of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition 
  to the Committee on Armed Services, 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 authorize an exception to the prohibition on the construction of 
   Coast Guard vessels in foreign shipyards, 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 ``Ensuring Coast Guard Readiness 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON CONSTRUCTION OF COAST GUARD VESSELS 
              IN FOREIGN SHIPYARDS.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (b) of section 1151 of title 14, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b)(1) The President may authorize exceptions to the prohibition 
in subsection (a) when the President determines that it is in the 
national security interest of the United States to do so, provided 
that--
            ``(A) the foreign shipyard concerned is located in a North 
        Atlantic Treaty Organization member country or a country in the 
        Indo-Pacific region that is party to a mutual defense treaty 
        with the United States; and
            ``(B) the cost of the construction concerned is less than 
        the cost would be if such construction occurred in a domestic 
        shipyard.
    ``(2) The President shall transmit notice to Congress of any such 
determination, and no contract may be made pursuant to the exception 
authorized until the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date the 
notice of such determination is received by Congress.
    ``(3) Before the construction of a Coast Guard vessel, or a major 
component of the hull or superstructure of a Coast Guard vessel, may 
commence at a foreign shipyard pursuant to this subsection, the 
Commandant shall submit to Congress a certification that the foreign 
shipyard is not owned or operated by a Chinese company or a 
multinational company domiciled in the People's Republic of China.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 8679(a) of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ``and section 1151(b) of title 
14'' after ``in subsection (b)''.
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