HR 19 19 - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2286
12/08
HOUSE RESOLUTION 19
A RESOLUTION calling for the repeal of the Jones Act.
SPONSORS: Rep. Moffett, Merr. 4; Rep. McGough, Hills. 12; Rep. T. Mannion, Hills. 1; Rep. Belcher, Carr. 4; Rep. D. McGuire, Merr. 14
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This resolution calls for the repeal of the Jones Act.
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24-2286
12/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
A RESOLUTION calling for the repeal of the Jones Act.
Whereas, for over 100 years, a federal law known as Jones Act has restricted water transportation of cargo between U.S. ports to ships that are U.S.-owned, U.S.-crewed, U.S.-registered, and U.S.-built to the detriment of national security considerations, and
Whereas, the U.S. economy endures artificially inflated shipping costs because the transport of cargo between U.S. ports and within the country’s vast inland waterways is off-limits to foreign competition and domestic shipping firms must pay vastly higher prices for the ships they use, and
Whereas, mandating the use of domestic tankers to transport oil significantly increases energy costs, and
Whereas, by forcing more carbon-intensive surface transportation methods into use, the Jones Act is responsible for creating unnecessary environmental costs, and
Whereas, artificially inflated waterborne shipping rates increase demand for alternative forms of transportation, including trucking, rail, and pipeline services, raising those modes’ rates and inflating business costs throughout the supply chain, and
Whereas, the Jones Act promotes protectionism as the expense of competition causing the American shipbuilding industry to fail to keep pace with demands and requirements; now, therefore, be it
Resolved that the New Hampshire House of Representatives supports a termination of the Jones Act, and that copies of this resolution be delivered to Joseph R. Biden, president of the United States, the majority and minority leaders in both houses of Congress, to the New Hampshire congressional delegation, and to the honorable Christopher Sununu, governor of the state of New Hampshire.