To promote space safety and provide for policy, planning, and agency roles and responsibilities for the transition to a civil space situational awareness capability of certain space situational awareness activities, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To promote space safety and provide for policy, planning, and agency roles and responsibilities for the transition to a civil space situational awareness capability of certain space situational awareness activities, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators. The main policy domain is Government Operations, Science & Space, Defense.
Who Benefits and How
federal agencies and legislative administrators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HA7700207BB3D483B9DE8B28A908CDA5D: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Space Safety and Situational Awareness Transition Act of 2023 or the Space SSA Transition Act of...
- Section H333DD4D6029F421A88EDE7660172044D: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term Administration has the meaning given such term in section 10101 of title 51, United States Code. The term Administrator...
- Section HE67A54CE33B6442494C60683119B1F4A: 101. Authorization of appropriations for fiscal years 2024 through 2025 To carry out this Act, there is authorized to be appropriated— to the Department of...
- Section HAE17A6546E8F417796D8F264CF599143: 201. Findings Congress finds the following: Commercial activity in space is accelerating to meet the global demand for a growing commercial space market. Space...
- Section H02D8F060A76E45268327C40D883F7D29: 202. Sense of Congress on United States Government responsibility It is the sense of Congress that the United States Government, in coordination with other...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To promote space safety and provide for policy, planning, and agency roles and responsibilities for the transition to a civil space situational awareness capability of certain space situational awareness activities, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators.
Key Policy Areas
Government Operations, Science & Space, Defense
Primary Purpose
This bill, To promote space safety and provide for policy, planning, and agency roles and responsibilities for the transition to a civil space situational awareness capability of certain space situational awareness activities, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- federal agencies and legislative administrators
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Beyer (for himself, Mr. Norcross, and Ms. Lofgren) introduced …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_administrator"
- → The Administrator identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_defense"
- → Secretary of Defense
- "secretary_of_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce
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