HR 936 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

SPACE-A

Introduced Feb 7, 2017 Originated House Sponsor Gus M. Bilirakis R-FL

Latest action · Mar 23, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

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.

IntroducedFeb 7, 2017
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Special Priority on Aircrafts and Coverage Equity Act of 2017 or SPACE-A

This bill directs the Department of Defense to provide transportation on scheduled and unscheduled military flights within the continental United States and on scheduled overseas flights on a space-available basis for veterans with a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total on the same basis as such transportation is provided to members of the Armed Forces entitled to retired or retainer pay.

Cosponsors 85

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 7, 2017 to Oct 23, 2018; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Feb 7, 2017
D-TX	Filemon Vela	Original	Feb 7, 2017
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Sep 6, 2017
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Sep 6, 2017
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Sep 6, 2017
R-WA	David G. Reichert		Sep 6, 2017
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Sep 6, 2017
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Sep 6, 2017
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Sep 6, 2017
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Sep 6, 2017
R-NM	Stevan Pearce		Sep 6, 2017
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Sep 6, 2017
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Sep 12, 2017
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Sep 12, 2017
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Sep 12, 2017
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Sep 12, 2017
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Sep 12, 2017
R-KY	Thomas Massie		Sep 12, 2017
R-OK	Tom Cole		Sep 12, 2017
R-NE	Don Bacon		Sep 26, 2017
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Sep 26, 2017
R-NY	Peter T. King		Sep 26, 2017
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Sep 26, 2017
D-IN	André Carson		Oct 5, 2017
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Oct 5, 2017
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Oct 5, 2017
R-CA	David G. Valadao		Oct 5, 2017
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Oct 5, 2017
R-WI	Glenn Grothman		Oct 5, 2017
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Oct 5, 2017
R-MI	Mike Bishop		Oct 5, 2017
R-GA	Rick W. Allen		Oct 5, 2017
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Oct 5, 2017
R-KS	Roger Marshall		Oct 5, 2017
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Oct 5, 2017
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Oct 5, 2017
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Oct 11, 2017
R-IN	Luke Messer		Oct 11, 2017
D-CA	Mark Takano		Oct 11, 2017
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Oct 11, 2017
R-AR	Steve Womack		Oct 11, 2017
D-CA	Ami Bera		Oct 31, 2017
R-AL	Bradley Byrne		Oct 31, 2017
R-FL	Dennis A. Ross		Oct 31, 2017
D-CT	James A. Himes		Oct 31, 2017
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		Oct 31, 2017
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Nov 21, 2017
R-FL	Neal P. Dunn		Nov 21, 2017
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Nov 30, 2017
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		Jan 10, 2018
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Jan 10, 2018
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Jan 10, 2018
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Jan 10, 2018
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Jan 10, 2018
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Jan 10, 2018
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Jan 10, 2018
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Jan 10, 2018
R-MS	Gregg Harper		Jan 16, 2018
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jan 16, 2018
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Jan 25, 2018
R-MO	Billy Long		Feb 2, 2018
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Feb 26, 2018
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Feb 27, 2018
R-IA	Steve King		Mar 5, 2018
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Mar 5, 2018
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Apr 10, 2018
R-NY	Chris Collins		Apr 24, 2018
R-FL	Matt Gaetz		May 7, 2018
R-CA	Doug LaMalfa		May 8, 2018
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		May 29, 2018
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Jun 12, 2018
R-SC	Ralph Norman		Jun 12, 2018
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jun 12, 2018
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Jun 15, 2018
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Jun 19, 2018
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Jun 20, 2018
R-OK	Markwayne Mullin		Jun 21, 2018
R-AK	Don Young		Jun 25, 2018
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Jun 25, 2018
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Jun 28, 2018
R-TN	David P. Roe		Jul 10, 2018
R-TX	Louie Gohmert		Jul 23, 2018
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Jul 25, 2018
R-MO	Jason Smith		Jul 31, 2018
D-NV	Jacky Rosen		Oct 23, 2018

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Armed Services Committee	Referred Feb 7, 2017
	Readiness Subcommittee	Referred Mar 23, 2017

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 23, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
Feb 7, 2017Introduced in House
Feb 7, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, section 8, clause XII-XIV of the Constitution of the United States, which gives Congress the authority to: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 21, February 7, 2017, page H1085.

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 116	A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit veterans who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces entitled to such travel.	Related bill	Jan 12, 2017
HR 2264	To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a space-available transportation priority for veterans of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total.	Reintroduction of	Aug 13, 2015

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a space-available transportation priority for veterans of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total.
Short Titles as Introduced: SPACE-A; Special Priority on Aircrafts and Coverage Equity Act of 2017

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 7, 2017Introduced in House

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.