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Secure U.S. Leadership in Space Act of 2025
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat spaceports like airports for purposes of exempt facility bond rules.
Summary
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow spaceports to be treated the same as airports for federal tax bond financing purposes. Under the bill, spaceports—facilities used for spacecraft manufacturing, launch services, reentry services, and crew or cargo transfer—can be financed through tax-exempt bonds, even if they include manufacturing facilities or industrial parks. The bill removes restrictions that would otherwise apply to federally backed bonds used to finance spaceports and exempts spaceport bonds from state issuance limits. The changes apply to bonds issued after the bill is enacted.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2] (R-FL)
4 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Neal P. Dunn’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- KEDRICK CERRY $13,200
- ADVANCED UROLOGY INSTITUTE $12,400
- APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES $11,600
- NULL $11,110
- AUDIENTIS LLC $10,000
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Neal P. Dunn → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- May 1, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
- May 1, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
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
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. <all>
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