H.R. 3151

SHIPS for America Act of 2025

Sponsor: Trent Kelly

145 cosponsors
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I Oversight and accountability

II Maritime Security Trust Fund

III Sealift capability

IV Vessels of the United States in international commerce

A Strategic sealift programs

B Cargo preference

Sec. 418. Transportation requirements for certain exports sponsored by the Secretary of Agriculture

Section 55314 of title 46, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by inserting before subsection (b) the following:

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(a) Applicability. The requirements under section 55305 of this title shall apply with respect to the activities specified in subsection (b).

(2) in subsection (b)—

(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking Secretary of Agriculture or the Commodity Credit Corporation and inserting Federal Government;

(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting titles I, II, or III of after carried out under;

(C) in paragraph (4), by striking agricultural commodities or their products and inserting agricultural products;

(D) in paragraph (5), by striking agricultural commodities or their products and inserting agricultural products;

(E) in paragraph (6), by striking agricultural commodities or their products and inserting agricultural products;

(F) in paragraph (7), by striking agricultural commodities and inserting agricultural products;

(G) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (6), (7), (8), and (9), respectively; and

(H) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:

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(4) carried out under the Food for Progress Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736o);

(5) carried out under the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program under section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1);

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(3) by adding at the end the following:

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(c) Agricultural product defined. In this section, the term agricultural product means any food product, including an agricultural commodity (as such term is defined in section 402 of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1732)), specialty crop (as such term is defined in section 3 of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note)), or processed food product, exported from the United States.

C Regulatory reform

V Shipbuilding

A Shipbuilding financial incentives

B Department of Defense Programs

C Shipbuilding innovation and infrastructure

VI Workforce Development

A Workforce incentives

B Workforce Pipeline

C United States Merchant Marine Academy and State maritime academies

D Maritime Credentialing Modernization

VII Amendments to the internal revenue code of 1986