A bill to remove unnecessary restrictions on the documentation of certain vessels, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 to restrict to vessels of 100 gross tons or more provisions which prohibit vessels which once acquired, through specified means, the right to engage in the coastwise trade, and which were later sold foreign or placed under foreign registry, from reacquiring the right to engage in the coastwise trade.…