[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3852 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3852

To permit the waiver of Jones Act requirements for humanitarian relief 
                                efforts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2017

 Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Soto, and Mr. 
  Gutierrez) 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 permit the waiver of Jones Act requirements for humanitarian relief 
                                efforts.

    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 ``Humanitarian Disaster Relief Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. JONES ACT WAIVER FOR HUMANITARIAN RELIEF EFFORTS.

    Section 501(b) of title 46, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``or humanitarian relief efforts'' after ``national defense'' 
in each place it appears.
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