Requires the Coast Guard to review and update the merchant mariner credentialing exam with a working group that includes recent test-takers, then to produce a plan to modernize the exam.

Official title: Mariner Exam Modernization Act

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote

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House

Introduced 13-MAY-2025

Referred 13-MAY-2025

Approved by committee 11-JUN-2025

Key points

Extends the working group's review of exam questions and content to 270 days and adds at least 2 people who passed the exam in the prior 5 years as members
Bars the Commandant from using new exam questions until the working group reviews and approves them
Requires the working group to meet annually or whenever new questions are created, and allows members without the means to attend in person to participate remotely
Requires a Coast Guard modernization plan within 270 days after the review, and a briefing to House and Senate committees within 1 year of the date of enactment

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Committee referrals (2)

Policy area

Transportation and Public Works

Sponsor Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA) Cosponsors · 2

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2 Republicans

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