House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Offshore Pipeline Safety Act
Official title: To require the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to further develop, finalize, and implement updated regulations for offshore oil and gas pipelines to address long-standing limitations regarding its ability to ensure active pipeline integrity and address safety and environmental risks associated with decommissioning, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Julia Brownley D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 12, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 12, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3948.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. BROWNLEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 101, June 12, 2025, Page H2822):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3948, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3948
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 2, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 July 2, 2025). 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
2 cosponsors — 2 Democrats
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.