HARPOON Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 2674 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2674 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to conduct or support capacity-building programs for foreign security forces to counter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES August 1, 2025 Mr. Young introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to conduct or support capacity-building programs for foreign security forces to counter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, 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 ``Helping Allies Respond to Piracy, Overfishing, and Oceanic Negligence Act'' or the ``HARPOON Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Commandant.--The term ``Commandant'' means the Commandant of the Coast Guard. (2) Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing; iuu fishing.--The terms ``illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing'' and ``IUU fishing'' means activities described as illegal fishing, unreported fishing, or unregulated fishing in paragraph 3 of the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, adopted at the 24th Session of the Committee on Fisheries in Rome on March 2, 2001. (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Navy. SEC. 3. MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITY TO BUILD CAPACITY OF FOREIGN SECURITY FORCES. Section 333(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the e