Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Strategic Subsea Cables Act of 2026
Official title: A bill to enhance United States Government strategic coordination of the security, installation, maintenance, and repair of international subsea fiber-optic cables.
Sponsor: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen D-NHWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 20, 2025
- Committee actionJan 29, 2026
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 10, 2026 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 327.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3249.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3249, Strategic Subsea Cables Act of 2026” on March 3, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on February 10, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 3, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62196
- CBO publication date
- March 3, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3249, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/3249
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of June 4, 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
8 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 8 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
John Barrasso (R-WY), Christopher Coons (D-DE), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Timothy Kaine (D-VA), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), David McCormick (R-PA), James Risch (R-ID).
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