House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Save Our Ships Act
Official title: To establish a grant program to support the conservation and preservation of historic military ships and submarines, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 7, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5970.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NORCROSS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 187, November 7, 2025, Page H4586):Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5970, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5970
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 30, 2026
- 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 May 30, 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
9 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 6 Democrats
3 of 9 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Troy Carter (D-LA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Bennie Thompson (D-MS).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Donald Norcross.
- H.R. 5408 (119th) Faster Labor Contracts Act
- H.Res. 1140 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5408) to accelerate workplace time-to-contract under the National Labor Relations Act.
- H.R. 2736 (119th) Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2025
- H.R. 2692 (119th) No Tax Breaks for Union Busting (NTBUB) Act
- H.R. 5206 (119th) Empowering Striking Workers Act of 2025
- H.R. 1627 (119th) TREATS Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.