119-s2674

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2674 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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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.

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 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

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 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 end the following new paragraph:
 ``

    (10) Counter-illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing 
 operations.''.

SEC. 4. COUNTER-IUU FISHING PROGRAM ENHANCEMENT.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary and the Commandant shall 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 one year after the date of 
 the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
 Secretary and the Commandant 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;
        (B) a description of any limitations on enhanced 
 partnerships due to insufficient resources;
            (C) recommendations for increased program 
 effectiveness;
            (D) an assessment of the effectiveness of ongoing 
 partner operations; and
        (E) any other information the Secretary and the 
 Commandant 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 and the Committee on Armed Services of 
 the Senate; and
        (B) the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
 and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
 Representatives.
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