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H.R. 2163: Port Opportunity Reinvestment and Training Act of 2013

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H.R. 2163: Port Opportunity Reinvestment and Training Act of 2013

113th Congress · introduced 2013-05-23 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-05-23 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Port Opportunity Reinvestment and Training Act of 2013

Plain summary

Port Opportunity Reinvestment and Training Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to award renewable one-year grants to ports to provide summer jobs to high school students who live within each port's Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Requires the Secretary, when considering grant applications and amounts, to favor ports located in cities with high unemployment rates and also consider each port's cargo volume and the size of its MSA. Allows ports to use the grants to provide job training to such students, provided no more than 15% of the students' time is spent training and they are compensated at their normal pay rate while training.

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Official text

Port Opportunity Reinvestment and Training Act of 2013

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44] · 2 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Kathy Castor (D-FL)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr2163 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113