HR 6226 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

American Space SAFE Management Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Dec 28, 2018 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 873.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJun 26, 2018
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

American Space Situational Awareness and Framework for Entity Management Act or the American Space SAFE Management Act

This bill declares that it is U.S. policy to encourage the coordination of public and private sector science and technology activities to improve space situational awareness and space traffic management. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) must submit a national civil space situational awareness and space traffic management science and technology plan to carry out this policy.

NASA shall establish a Center for Civil Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management Science and Technology Excellence at a U.S. academic institution or institutions.

The Department of Commerce shall establish a civil situational awareness program to furnish situational awareness services and information to, and obtain space situational awareness data and information from, specified eligible entities, including a state, a U.S. commercial entity, the government of a foreign country, or a foreign commercial entity.

Commerce shall establish a civil space traffic coordination pilot program to facilitate communication, coordination, negotiation, and resolution among domestic and international civil spacecraft operators (including governmental and private entities operating those spacecraft) to improve the safety of spaceflight.

Commerce must submit a report on the role that Commerce, including of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, shall have in the development of civil space traffic coordination standards to promote innovation and U.S. competitiveness.

Cosponsors 15

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 26, 2018.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAmi BeraOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-AZAndy BiggsOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-FLBill PoseyOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-TXBrian BabinOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-LAClay HigginsOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-CADana RohrabacherOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-FLDaniel WebsterOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-AZDebbie LeskoOriginalJun 26, 2018
D-COEd PerlmutterOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-OKFrank D. LucasOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-FLNeal P. DunnOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-LARalph Lee AbrahamOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-ILRandy HultgrenOriginalJun 26, 2018
R-TXRandy K. Weber, Sr.OriginalJun 26, 2018
R-CAStephen KnightOriginalJun 26, 2018

Actions 8

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Dec 28, 2018Committee on the Budget discharged.
  2. Dec 28, 2018Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 873.
  3. Dec 22, 2018House Committee on the Budget Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 28, 2018.
  4. Dec 22, 2018Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 115-1106, Part I.
  5. Jun 27, 2018Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Dec 28, 2018Reported in House
  2. Jun 26, 2018Introduced in House

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