INDEMNITY FOR DISABLING VESSELS LIABLE TO SEIZURE OR EXAMINATION.

SEC. 205. INDEMNITY FOR DISABLING VESSELS LIABLE TO SEIZURE OR EXAMINATION.(a) Repeal of Requirement To Fire Warning Shot.—Subsection (a) of section 637 of title 14, United States Code, is amended—(1) by inserting “(1)” after “(a)”;(2) by striking “after a” and all that follows through “signal,” and inserting “subject to paragraph (2),”; and (3) by adding at the end the following:“(2) Before firing at or into a vessel as authorized in paragraph (1), the person in command or in charge of the authorized vessel or authorized aircraft shall fire a gun as a warning signal, except that the prior firing of a gun as a warning signal is not required if that person determines that the firing of a warning signal would unreasonably endanger persons or property in the vicinity of the vessel to be stopped.”.118 STAT. 1033(b) Extension to Military Aircraft of Coast Guard Interdiction Authority.—Subsection (c) of such section is amended—(1) in paragraph (1) by inserting “or” after the semicolon; and(2) in paragraph (2) by—(A) inserting “or military aircraft” after “surface naval vessel”; and(B) striking “; or” and all that follows through paragraph (3) and inserting a period.(c) Repeal of Termination of Applicability to Naval Aircraft.—Subsection (d) of such section is repealed.(d) Report.—The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall transmit a report annually to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives describing the location, vessels or aircraft, circumstances, and consequences of each incident in the 12-month period covered by the report in which the person in command or in charge of an authorized vessel or an authorized aircraft (as those terms are used in section 637 of title 14, United States Code) fired at or into a vessel without prior use of the warning signal as authorized by that section.(e) Technical Correction.—(1) Correction.—Section 637 of title 14, United States Code, is amended in the section heading by striking “immunity” and inserting “indemnity”. (2) Clerical amendment.—The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 17 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 637 and inserting the following: “637. Stopping vessels; indemnity for firing at or into vessel.”.