HR 3488
116th Congress
House
Transportation and Public Works
Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Coast guard
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Members of Congress
Military education and training
Minority education
Minority employment
Performance measurement
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Coast Guard Academy Improvement Act
Introduced: June 25, 2019
Introduced by:
Thompson, Bennie G.
Democratic
· Mississippi
See on congress.gov
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 26, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Jun 25, 2019
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Jun 25, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Coast Guard Academy Improvement Act
This bill concerns matters related to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Among other things, the bill
- establishes a commission to assess the level of cultural competence within the academy;
- mandates a recruitment and retention plan for the academy;
- provides statutory authority for a minority outreach team program to recruit minority students to the academy;
- requires the Coast Guard to select half of each academy class from a pool of applicants with congressional nominations; and
- provides statutory authority for and expands the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative, which allows certain undergraduate students to enlist and receive a guaranteed commission as an officer in the Coast Guard.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1