[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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