[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6887 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6887

  To prohibit the owner or operator of a port in the United States to 
enter into a contract with certain entities for operation or management 
                             of such port.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2022

Mrs. Steel (for herself, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. 
 Garcia of California, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Rice of South Carolina, Mr. 
  LaMalfa, and Mr. Calvert) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the owner or operator of a port in the United States to 
enter into a contract with certain entities for operation or management 
                             of such port.

    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 ``Secure Our Ports Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN CONTRACTS FOR PORT OPERATION AND 
              MANAGEMENT.

    An owner or operator of a port in the United States may not enter 
into a contract for the operation or management of such port with an 
entity that is--
            (1) a Chinese, Russian, North Korean, or Iranian state-
        owned enterprise; or
            (2) any foreign entity for which any percentage is owned by 
        a country listed in paragraph (1).
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