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Historic Battleship Preservation Act

To repeal a provision of law preventing donation by the Secretary of the Navy of the two remaining Iowa-class battleships listed on the Naval Vessel Register and related requirements.

Introduced Feb 12, 1998

Latest action (Mar 13, 1998) Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Procurement.

Referred to
Armed Services Committee Military Procurement Subcommittee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Defense

Summary

This bill repeals Section 1011 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, which had prohibited the Secretary of the Navy from donating the two remaining Iowa-class battleships listed on the Naval Vessel Register. By removing this restriction, the bill allows the Navy to donate these historic battleships, presumably to organizations or institutions interested in preserving them.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
12 cosponsors

Actions (4)
  1. Mar 13, 1998 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Procurement. · house
  2. Mar 13, 1998 Executive Comment Requested from DOD. · house
  3. Feb 12, 1998 Referred to the House Committee on National Security. · house
  4. Feb 12, 1998 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 12, 1998

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 12, 1998

Mr. Pappas (for himself, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mrs. Roukema, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Franks of New Jersey, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Rothman, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Payne, and Mr. LoBiondo) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on National Security

A BILL

To repeal a provision of law preventing donation by the Secretary of the Navy of the two remaining Iowa-class battleships listed on the Naval Vessel Register and related requirements.

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 “Historic Battleship Preservation Act”.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT FOR CONTINUED LISTING OF TWO IOWA-CLASS BATTLESHIPS ON THE NAVAL VESSEL REGISTER.

Section 1011 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 421) is repealed. <all>

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