3.0.0 4827 2023-01-11T13:44:23Z 2023-01-11T13:44:23Z Senate S 2020-10-21 116 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Markup by 2020-11-18T14:30:10Z Referred to 2020-10-21T17:47:52Z 2020-11-18 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2020-10-21 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2020-10-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000437 Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] Roger Wicker R MS F. N Science, Technology, Communications Science, Technology, Communications 00 2020-10-21 Introduced in Senate 2020-12-03T18:17:03Z Space Preservation And Conjunction Emergency Act of 2020 or the SPACE Act of 2020

This bill modifies requirements for the Office of Space Commerce and renames the office as the Bureau of Space Commerce.

The bureau shall be headed by an Assistant Secretary for Space Commerce, to be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Assistant Secretary shall report directly to the Secretary of Commerce.

The bill expands the bureau's responsibilities to include (1) overseeing the issuing of licenses for land remote sensing activities, and (2) coordinating Commerce policy affecting commercial space activities and working with other executive agencies to promote policies that advance commercial space activities.

The bureau may provide space situational awareness data, information, and services to, and may obtain space situational awareness data, information, and services from, non-United States government entities in accordance with this bill.

]]> SPACE Act of 2020 Display Title SPACE Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced SPACE Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Space Preservation And Conjunction Emergency Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize the Assistant Secretary of Space Commerce to provide space situational awareness data, information, and services to non-United States Government entities, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4827is/xml/BILLS-116s4827is.xml 2020-11-18 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.