H.R. 5885: To establish an interagency task force to address the backlog of cargo ships at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach and in the coastal waters of Orange County, California, and for other purposes.

H.R. 5885: To establish an interagency task force to address the backlog of cargo ships at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach and in the coastal waters of Orange County, California, and for other purposes.

117th Congress · introduced 2021-11-04 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

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Where it came from: introduced 2021-11-04 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Steel, Michelle [R-CA-48] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

To establish an interagency task force to address the backlog of cargo ships at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach and in the coastal waters of Orange County, California, and for other purposes.

Plain summary

This bill requires the Coast Guard to establish an interagency task force to address the vessel backlogs at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach and in the coastal waters of Orange County, California. Specifically, the task force must evaluate and quantify the impact of the vessel backlogs at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, evaluate and quantify the costs incurred by other federal, state, and local governments due to such vessel backlogs, evaluate the responses of federal agencies to such vessel backlogs, investigate the cause of the oil spill that occurred in October 2021 in the coastal waters of Orange County, and develop and report on a plan to solve the vessel backlog and oil spill crises along the coast of southern California.

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Official text

To establish an interagency task force to address the backlog of cargo ships at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach and in the coastal waters of Orange County, California, and for other purposes.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Sponsor: Rep. Steel, Michelle [R-CA-48] · 3 cosponsors

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Josh Harder (D-CA), Young Kim (R-CA), Deborah K. Ross (D-NC)

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr5885.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>

Record fed-us-cong117-hr5885 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117