House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
SHIPS for America Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 18, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
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Latest action: Dec 18, 2024 — Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10493.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KELLY of Mississippi, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 188, December 18, 2024, Page H7361):Clause 1 of section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution, which grants Congress the power to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: National DefenseSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 18, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 223 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 10493, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10493
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 9, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 January 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Trent Kelly.
- H.R. 10045 (118th) Farmer Assistance and Revenue Mitigation Act of 2024
- H.R. 3425 (118th) Community College Agriculture Advancement Act of 2023
- H.R. 3424 (118th) Forest Conservation Easement Program Act of 2023
- H.R. 1755 (118th) Uzbekistan Normalized Trade Act
- H.R. 5844 (118th) Savings for Servicemembers Act
- H.R. 3580 (118th) To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to increase funding for the conservation stewardship program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.