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Cutting LNG Bunkering Red Tape Act

To amend the Natural Gas Act to clarify the treatment of bunkering as an export, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jul 25, 2025

Latest action (Jul 25, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Referred to
Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Energy

Summary
  • Amends the Natural Gas Act to clarify that supplying natural gas as marine fuel to vessels (bunkering) in U.S. territorial or inland waters is not considered an export
  • Specifies that bunkering is only treated as an export if the transfer of natural gas occurs in the territorial sea or inland waters of a foreign country, regardless of the vessels' flags or country of registry

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)
11 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Laurel M. Lee’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $87,600
  • HOSPITALITY SOUTH $13,200
  • ICI HOMES $13,200
  • WEATHERFORD CAPITAL $13,200
  • ASHLEY FURNITURE $9,900

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Laurel M. Lee → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 25, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
  2. Jul 25, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 3592 — Protect LNG Act of 2025 · Introduced Sep 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 3760 — Export American Natural Gas Act of 2013 · Introduced Jan 10, 2014 · Cong. 113 69%
  • HR 572 — RED TAPE Act · Introduced Jan 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • S 883 — Unlocking Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • HR 381 — LNG Public Interest Determination Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 4720 — Cracking Down on Price Gouging Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jul 25, 2025

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

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 25, 2025

Ms. Lee of Florida (for herself and Mr. Pfluger) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Natural Gas Act to clarify the treatment of bunkering as an export, 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 “Cutting LNG Bunkering Red Tape Act”.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF BUNKERING.

Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(g) Bunkering.—For purposes of this section, the bunkering of natural gas for use by the receiving vessel as marine fuel shall not be considered an export unless the transfer of such natural gas to the receiving vessel occurs in the territorial sea or inland waters of a foreign country, regardless of the flag or country of registry of either vessel.”. <all>

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