[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 55 (Tuesday, April 12, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S1917]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3640. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Brown) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3464 submitted by Mr. 
Thune (for himself and Mr. Nelson) to the bill H.R. 636, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend increased expensing 
limitations, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       After section 2125, insert the following:

     SEC. 2126. PILOT PROGRAM TO INTEGRATE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT 
                   SYSTEMS INTO THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE.

       (a) Additional Test Ranges.--Paragraph (1) of section 
     332(c) of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 
     (Public Law 112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``Not later than'' and inserting the 
     following;
       ``(A) Initial test ranges.--Not later than''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(B) Additional test ranges.--
       ``(i) Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
     of the enactment of the Federal Aviation Administration 
     Reauthorization Act of 2016, the Administrator shall 
     establish 4 additional test ranges under the program 
     established under subparagraph (A).
       ``(ii) Application.--The Administrator shall--

       ``(I) permit a State that submitted an application to be a 
     test range prior to such date of enactment to use that prior 
     submission, or a modified version of that submission, as an 
     application to be a test range under clause (i); and
       ``(II) permit States that did not submit an application to 
     be a test range prior to such date of enactment to apply to 
     be a test range under clause (i).''.

       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Paragraph (3) of section 332(c) 
     of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 
     112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended by striking ``6''.
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