Space Infrastructure Act
Summary
Space Infrastructure Act This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to designate space systems, services, and technology as a critical infrastructure sector. Under current law, critical infrastructure means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jul 27, 2023
Last action Jul 27, 2023
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2
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Committee
1
Jul 27, 2023
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
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Jul 27, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
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1 primary · 6 co-sponsors
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