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Sponsored by Rep. Frank D. Lucas (R-OK) · 1 active : 1 Democrat
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Commercial Remote Sensing Amendment Act of 2025
This bill makes certain changes related to the licensing of private remote sensing space systems. (Under current regulations,
remote sensing
refers to the collection of data by instruments in Earth's orbit, such as satellites, that can be processed into imagery of Earth's surface;
private remote sensing space systems
refer to remote sensing instruments not owned by the U.S. government.)
The bill decreases from 120 to 60 days the amount of time in which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration must review and act on an application for a license to operate a private remote sensing space system.
Further, the bill expands annual reporting on the licensing of private remote sensing space systems to include a list of all applications, organized by tier, as well as the rationale for each tier categorization. (Currently, each license is categorized into one of three tiers based on whether the system produces or is capable of producing data that is already available from other entities). Additionally, the report must include all terms, conditions, or restrictions placed on licensees.
The bill also reinstates this annual reporting requirement, which expired on September 30, 2020, through September 30, 2030.
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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These members have less than half of the model’s inputs, so their scores are not banded or ranked.
Ideology is each member’s score. The cluster low on the chart includes the bill’s 2 sponsor and cosponsors in the House: they have already committed, so they score as entrenched. 2 representatives without a DW-NOMINATE score or with insufficient data are not plotted.
Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 5.5 (needs 5.0).
