The record

LegislationLegislation· Mar 2024
HR 3385

Sponsored by Stacey E. Plaskett (D)

DiasporaLink Act

Would have ordered a federal study of an undersea internet cable linking the US, Virgin Islands, Ghana, and Nigeria.

Tradeoff

Would have required a study of the cable's value, cost, and feasibility, not the cable itself. Would have barred the Commerce Department from forcing companies to hand over data for the study.

What's in it

See official bill text
H.R. 3385, a bill to direct the Secretary of Commerce to submit to Congress a report containing an assessment of the value, cost, and feasibility of a trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic cable connecting the contiguous United States, the United States Virgin Islands, Ghana, and Nigeriawww.cbo.gov/publication/59522 · Aug 2023

Passed the House by on March 5, 2024. The Senate never voted on it before the Congress ended.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (May 16, 2023)

  2. House

    Committee on Energy and Commerce(May 16, 2023)

  3. House

    The Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to send it to the floor

    Reported 41 - 0(Jul 27, 2023)

    Committee report H. Rept. 118-239.

  4. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Mar 5, 2024)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. Senate

    Received from the House

    on Commerce, Science, and Transportation(Mar 6, 2024)