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Bill · 119th Congress · S 2357
Young Fishermen’s Development Program Reauthorization Act
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Introduced 2025-07-17Topic: agriculture food · economy jobs · budgetSummary
AI-generated summary, report an errorThis bill extends the Young Fishermen's Development Act, a federal grant program for training new commercial fishermen, by changing its funding years from 2022 through 2026 to 2026 through 2031. It adds crew management, disaster preparedness, seafood handling, technical assistance, fishing portfolio diversification, and management of working waterfronts and shoreside infrastructure to the topics grants can cover. It states that grant terms that are consecutive must also be non-concurrent. It also requires the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Sea Grant Office, to track whether program participants go on to work in commercial fishing or related industries, and to use those results when evaluating grant applications.
Sponsors
- Dan Sullivan Republican sponsor
- 4 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-11 | Senate | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 351. | |
| 2026-03-11 | Senate | Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-115. | refer |
| 2026-03-11 | Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-115. | report | |
| 2025-10-21 | Senate | Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. | refer |
| 2025-07-17 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. | refer |
| 2025-07-17 | Introduced in Senate | introduce |