HR 4275
Passed a chamber
Authorizes Coast Guard funding for fiscal years 2025 through 2029, raises military strength targets, and creates a Secretary of the Coast Guard position along with many reporting, personnel, acquisition, and sexual misconduct response requirements.
Official title: Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
02-JUL-2025
Referred
02-JUL-2025
Approved by committee
15-JUL-2025
Reported
22-JUL-2025
On the calendar
22-JUL-2025
Passed
23-JUL-2025
Senate
Received
23-JUL-2025
- Sets Coast Guard funding levels for fiscal years 2025 through 2029, including operations, acquisition, and retired pay, and raises authorized military strength to 60,000 by 2029
- Establishes a Secretary of the Coast Guard appointed by the President with Senate consent, and requires a Chief Prosecutor and an Inspector General within the Coast Guard
- Requires a Coast Guard policy on retention of evidence and records in sexual assault cases, expands reporting on covered misconduct, and adds expedited transfer and safe-to-report rules
- Requires numerous briefings and reports to Congress on acquisitions, polar icebreakers, Pacific operations, search and rescue, and Coast Guard Academy governance
No CRS summary yet. CRS writes one for most bills, often months after they move.
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Check on congress.gov- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (House)
- Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee
- Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Senate)
Transportation and Public Works
■ 2 R■ 2 D
2 Democrats
2 Republicans