To amend the National Marine Sanctuary Act to prohibit requiring an authorization for the installation, operation, maintenance, repair, or recovery of undersea fiber optic cables in a national marine sanctuary if such activities have previously been authorized by a Federal or State agency.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10180.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 172, November 20, 2024, Page H6155):
  Congress is granted the authority to introduce and enact this legislation pursuant to Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Strengthens national security and global connectivity by safeguarding the United States' submarine cable infrastructure.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 20, 2024 ↗

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  295 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10180, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10180

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8f1c5a8d63389315c175df51e437305b93f1ed72cbe63195c5337b1a2ca832c1

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of August 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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