---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 244"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "244"
heading: "Maritime security capabilities assessments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/244"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IV — Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security"
  - "Part C — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §244. Maritime security capabilities assessments


Not later than 180 days after October 5, 2018, and annually thereafter, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security of the House of Representatives, an assessment of the number and type of maritime [assets](/usc/6/101.md?p=3) and the number of [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) required to increase the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5)’s maritime response rate pursuant to [section 223 of this title](/usc/6/223.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 436, as added Pub. L. 115–254, div. J, § 1811(a), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3538.)