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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 5860. Mr. YOUNG submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of title X, add the following:
Subtitle __Helping Allies Respond to Piracy, Overfishing, and Oceanic
Negligence Act
SEC. 10_1. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the “Helping Allies Respond
to Piracy, Overfishing, and Oceanic Negligence Act” or the
“HARPOON Act”.
SEC. 10_2. DEFINITIONS.
In this subtitle:
(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” mean 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 Defense.
SEC. 10_3. COUNTER-IUU FISHING PROGRAM ENHANCEMENT.
(a) In General.—The Secretary and the Commandant, in
coordination with the Secretary of State, may seek to engage
with foreign partners to establish joint patrols to enhance
counter-IUU fishing efforts, combat transnational crime, and
enhance regional security.
(b) Report.—
(1) In general.—Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the Commandant,
in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall jointly
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on
engagements with foreign partners under subsection (a),
including—
(A) an identification of specific regions and countries
interested in increased cooperation to combat IUU fishing;
(B) a description of any limitations on enhanced counter-
IUU fishing partnerships due to insufficient resources or
authorities;
(C) recommendations for increased program effectiveness in
counter-IUU fishing operations;
(D) an assessment of the effectiveness of ongoing counter-
IUU fishing partner operations;
(E) an identification of authorities provided in sections
331 and 333(a) of title 10, United States Code, pursuant to
which such counter-IUU fishing operations are conducted; and
(F) any other information the Secretary, the Commandant,
and the Secretary of State consider appropriate.
(2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.—In this
subsection, the term “appropriate committees of Congress”
means—
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,
the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the
Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Foreign
Affairs of the House of Representatives.