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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Mar 18, 2002
Maritime Transportation Antiterrorism Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) assess port vulnerability; and (2) prepare a National Maritime Transportation Antiterrorism Plan for deterring catastrophic emergencies.Requires the Plan to: (1) coordinate Federal, State, and local efforts; (2) identify security resources; and (3) include a system of surveillance and notice to ensure earliest possible identification of emergencies.Requires Federal Maritime Antiterrorism Coordinators to develop, update, and integrate Area Maritime Transportation Antiterrorism Plans, as needed.Requires owners or operators of vessels or facilities to prepare an antiterrorism plan for deterring a catastrophic emergency.Requires the Secretary or Under Secretary of Transportation for Security to establish certain antiterrorism measures, including: (1) response plans for vessels; (2) transportation security cards; (3) maritime antiterrorism teams to protect vessels, ports, facilities, and cargo in U.S. waters; (4) a cargo identification and screening system; (5) requirements for the advance electronic transmission of passenger and crew manifests from arriving commercial vessels; (6) the assessment of antiterrorism measures maintained at specified foreign ports; (7) requirements for all commercial vessels entering the territorial sea of the United States to provide specified information as a condition of entry; (8) authorization of the use of qualified armed Coast Guard personnel as sea marshals on facilities or vessels; and (9) requirements for specified vessels operating in U.S. navigable waters to be equipped with a position indicating transponder.Extends the jurisdiction of the United States to include all waters of the territorial sea of the United States as described in Presidential Proclamation 5928.Extends the coverage of the Deepwater Port Act to natural gas.
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Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] · R–AK
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Laid on the table. See S. 1214 for further action.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3103-3116)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H3103-3116)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3983.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3103-3120)
Mr. LoBiondo moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 240.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 107-405.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 107-405.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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