[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 156 (Thursday, September 28, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6227-S6228]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. McCAIN (for himself, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lankford, and Mr. 
        Flake):
  S. 1894. A bill to exempt Puerto Rico from the coastwise laws of the 
United

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States (commonly known as the ``Jones Act'' ); read the first time.

                                S. 1894

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. EXCEPTIONS TO APPLICATION OF COASTWISE LAWS FOR 
                   PUERTO RICO.

       Section 55101(b) of title 46, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as 
     paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting before paragraph (2), as redesignated, the 
     following:
       ``(1) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;''.
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