would reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 and establish the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

would establish the National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Council.

would authorize federal agencies to establish prize competitions for innovation or adaptation management development relating to ocean acidification.

would direct the Secretary of the Navy to notify Congress of the pending retirement of any naval vessel that is a viable candidate for artificial reefing. 

would establish a Blue Carbon program to conserve and restore marine and coastal blue carbon ecosystems.

would direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of NOAA, to provide for ocean-based climate solutions to reduce carbon emissions and global warming, make coastal communities more resilient, and provide for the conservation and restoration of ocean and coastal habitats, biodiversity, and marine mammal and fish populations.

would allow coastal states to participate in regional ocean partnerships with one or more other coastal states that share a common ocean or coastal area with the coastal state to conserve living resources, expand and protect valuable habitats, enhance coastal resilience, and address such other issues related to the shared ocean or coastal area as are determined to be a shared, regional priority by those states.

would recognize World Oceans Day and the necessity to protect, conserve, maintain, and rebuild our ocean and its resources.

would provide for a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examining the impact of ocean acidification and other stressors in estuarine environments.

would establish the National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Council.