[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2140 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2140

 To improve the transition between experimental permits and commercial 
           licenses for commercial reusable launch vehicles.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2014

  Mr. Heinrich (for himself, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. Udall of New Mexico) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
           Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To improve the transition between experimental permits and commercial 
           licenses for commercial reusable launch vehicles.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COMMERCIAL SPACE LAUNCH LICENSING.

    Section 50906 of title 51, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (e)(1), by striking ``suborbital rocket 
        design'' and inserting ``suborbital rocket or rocket design''; 
        and
            (2) by amending subsection (g) to read as follows:
    ``(g) A permit may be issued, and a permit that has already been 
issued shall remain valid for the uses described in subsection (d), for 
a particular reusable suborbital rocket or rocket design after a 
license has been issued for the launch or reentry of a rocket of that 
design.''.
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