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HR 3151
Recent Bills/HR 3151

SHIPS for America Act of 2025

IntroducedMay 1, 2025
Introduced1 year ago
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
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Why This Matters

This bill sets up a national maritime strategy and funding to boost U.S. shipbuilding, ports, and the merchant marine workforce. It creates oversight roles, a trust fund, incentives for vessels and shipyards, strategic sealift programs, workforce support, and tax breaks.

Who this affects
U.S. shipyards · vessel owners · ports · merchant mariners
What changes is this bill making?
  1. 1Establishes a White House Maritime Security Advisor and Maritime Security Board to coordinate a National Maritime Strategy across federal agencies and oversee maritime programs.
  2. 2Creates a Maritime Security Trust Fund, funded by tonnage taxes and duties, to support ship operations, shipbuilding incentives, and strategic sealift capacity.
  3. 3Authorizes a Strategic Commercial Fleet program to subsidize U.S.-flag vessels—newly built or qualified foreign-built—as part of national defense and international trade.
  4. 4Provides financial assistance and tax credits for constructing, repowering, or modernizing U.S.-built vessels and shipyard facilities.
  5. 5Strengthens cargo preference rules, requiring more government and specified commercial cargo to move on U.S.-flag vessels and imposing penalties or waivers.
  6. 6Expands workforce development with loan forgiveness, educational assistance, career retention programs, and modernization funding for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and State maritime academies.
  7. 7Amends the tax code to create a United States Vessel Investment credit, a Shipyard Investment credit, exclude certain maritime security payments from income, and treat designated maritime prosperity zones as opportunity zones.
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IntroducedCurrentMay 1, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

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Donald Trump
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