Federal Maritime Commission Reauthorization Act of 2025
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 1985-06-05 — Maritime Appropriation Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986: cross-connection with maritime-administration-appropriations: FY1986 authorization funded the FMC and set the appellate-court judicial review channel that later reauthorizations inherit. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-09-01 — Charge Complaint Procedures: cross-connection with fmc-charge-complaint-procedures: Both concern FMC procedural authority over ocean carrier practices; the charge-complaint rule operationalizes billing dispute mechanisms within the FMC’s broader statutory framework. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-12-16 — Federal Maritime Commission Reauthorization Act of 2025: HR4183 reauthorizes the FMC through FY2029, broadens the controlled-carrier definition to cover carriers linked to nonmarket economies and USTR-monitored countries, extends complaint authority to shipping exchanges, establishes National Port and National Ocean Carrier advisory committees, and adds investigation-confidentiality rules. (novelty: 3)