House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Ensuring Naval Readiness Act
Official title: To authorize an exception to the prohibition on the construction of naval vessels in foreign shipyards, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Mike Kennedy R-UTWhere it went
- IntroducedAug 12, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 12, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4951.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KENNEDY of Utah, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 137, August 12, 2025, Page H3693):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4951, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4951
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 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 December 5, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Kennedy.
- H.R. 7831 (119th) License to Drill Act
- H.R. 1045 (119th) Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
- H.R. 3425 (119th) Personnel Oversight and Shift Tracking Act of 2025
- H.R. 8658 (119th) Indian Health Service Emergency Claims Parity Act
- H.R. 4684 (119th) Star-Spangled Summit Act of 2026
- H.R. 1318 (119th) United States Research Protection Act
Related bills
- S. 406 (119th) Ensuring Naval Readiness ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.