US HB2503 | 2025-2026 | 119th Congress
Status
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Engrossed on September 3 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-09-03 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Pending: Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on September 3 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-09-03 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Pending: Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Summary
To require the development of a strategy to eliminate the availability to foreign adversaries of goods and technologies capable of supporting undersea cables, and for other purposes.
Title
Undersea Cable Control Act
Sponsors
| Rep. Thomas Kean [R-NJ] | Rep. Michael Lawler [R-NY] | Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-03 | Senate | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| 2025-09-02 | House | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| 2025-09-02 | House | On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3733-3734) |
| 2025-09-02 | House | DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2503. |
| 2025-09-02 | House | Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3733-3734) |
| 2025-09-02 | House | Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. |
| 2025-04-09 | House | Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote. |
| 2025-04-09 | House | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held |
| 2025-03-31 | House | Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. |
| 2025-03-31 | House | Introduced in House |
