H.R. 1223 · 119th Congress · Science, technology, communications
ANCHOR Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · May 20, 2025
Roll call ↗412
11
Passed the House.
Passed the House on May 20, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- IntroducedFeb 12, 2025
- CommitteeFeb 12, 2025
- Passed HouseMay 20, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 5
- 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- Lobbying
- At least 2
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill orders a study, not an upgrade.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, May 20, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill orders a study, not an upgrade. Within 18 months, the Director of the National Science Foundation must give two congressional committees a plan to improve the cybersecurity and telecommunications of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet, the university- and laboratory-operated oceanographic vessels in the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System. The plan must assess the fleet's networking and cybersecurity needs, the costs to meet them including equipment and personnel above current spending, the time required under different funding scenarios, and opportunities to share solutions or centralize services, and it must lay out a spending plan drawing on the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and non-Federal vessel owners and users. The Director may support upgrades consistent with the plan, and must report on implementation progress within two years after the plan is submitted.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 2 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 13 quarterly reports filed by 2 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organizations named: University of California; University of Washington. Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.