119-hr3142

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3142 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 3142

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat spaceports like 
 airports for purposes of exempt facility bond rules.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 May 1, 2025

 Mr. Dunn of Florida (for himself, Mr. Carbajal, and Mr. Haridopolos) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Ways and Means

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 A BILL

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat spaceports like 
 airports for purposes of exempt facility bond rules.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Secure U.S. Leadership in Space Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. SPACEPORTS ARE TREATED LIKE AIRPORTS UNDER EXEMPT FACILITY BOND 
 RULES.

    (a) In General.--

Section 142

    (a)

    (1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended to read as follows:
 ``

    (1) airports and spaceports,''.

    (b) Treatment of Ground Leases.--

Section 142

    (b)

    (1) of such Code is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
 ``
            (C) Special rule for spaceport ground leases.--
 For purposes of subparagraph
        (A) , spaceport property 
 located on land leased by a governmental unit from the 
 United States shall not fail to be treated as owned by 
 a governmental unit if the requirements of this 
 paragraph are met by the lease and any subleases of the 
 property.''.
            (c) Definition of Spaceport.--

Section 142 of such Code is amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
 ``

    (p) Spaceport.--
 ``

    (1) In general.--For purposes of subsection

    (a)

    (1) , the 
 term `spaceport' means any facility located at or in close 
 proximity to a launch site or reentry site used for--
 ``
        (A) manufacturing, assembling, or repairing 
 spacecraft, space cargo, other facilities described in 
 this paragraph, or any component of the foregoing,
 ``
        (B) flight control operations,
 ``
            (C) providing launch services and reentry 
 services, or
 ``
            (D) transferring crew, spaceflight participants, 
 or space cargo to or from spacecraft.
 ``

    (2) Additional terms.--For purposes of paragraph

    (1) --
 ``
        (A) Space cargo.--The term `space cargo' includes 
 satellites, scientific experiments, other property 
 transported into space, and any other type of payload, 
 whether or not such property returns from space.
 ``
        (B) Spacecraft.--The term `spacecraft' means a 
 launch vehicle or a reentry vehicle.
 ``
            (C) Other terms.--The terms `launch', `launch 
 site', `crew', `space flight participant', `launch 
 services', `launch vehicle', `payload', `reenter', 
 `reentry services', `reentry site', a `reentry vehicle' 
 shall have the respective meanings given to such terms 
 by 

section 50902 of title 51, United States Code (as in 
 effect on the date of enactment of this subsection).
 ``

    (3) Public use requirement.--Notwithstanding any other 
 provision of law, a facility shall not be required to be 
 available for use by the general public to be treated as a 
 spaceport for purposes of this section.
 ``

    (4) Manufacturing facilities and industrial parks 
 allowed.--With respect to spaceports, subsection
            (c) (2)
        (E) shall not apply to spaceport property described in paragraph

    (1)
        (A) .''.
            (d) Exception From Federally Guaranteed Bond Prohibition.--

Section 149

    (b)

    (3) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraph:
 ``
        (F) Exception for spaceports.--A bond shall not 
 be treated as federally guaranteed merely because of 
 the payment of rent, user fees, or other charges by the 
 United States (or any agency or instrumentality 
 thereof) in exchange for the use of the spaceport by 
 the United States (or any agency or instrumentality 
 thereof).''.

    (e) Exclusion From State Ceiling.--

Section 146

    (g) of such Code is 
amended by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph

    (5) , by striking 
the period and inserting ``, and'' at the end of paragraph

    (6) , and by 
inserting after paragraph

    (6) the following new paragraph:
 ``

    (7) any exempt facility bond issued as part of an issue 
 95 percent or more of the net proceeds of which are to be used 
 to provide a spaceport (as defined in 

section 142).''.

    (f) Conforming Amendment.--The heading for 

section 142
            (c) of such 
Code is amended by inserting ``Spaceports,'' after ``Airports,''.

    (g) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to obligations issued after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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