Ensuring Coast Guard Readiness Act

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