Space Ready 2.0 Act
Sponsored By: Representative Haridopolos, Mike [R-FL-8]
Introduced
Summary
Private and public investment would fund shared infrastructure upgrades at NASA Centers through a pilot program that accepts voluntary contributions and sets rules for cost sharing, baselines, ownership, and reporting.
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- NASA and NASA Centers: Lets NASA accept voluntary contributions for capital repairs, maintenance, and improvements under agreements and allows use of Construction and Environmental Compliance and Restoration (CECR) funds as provided in appropriations. Projects must have cost and schedule baselines and a final breakdown of costs for contributors.
- Commercial contributors: Agreements must spell out terms of use, ownership, cost sharing, and who covers overruns. Unspent contributions must be returned or redesignated, and funds tied to a project that are not spent within 90 days after a project becomes operational may be refunded or redesignated at the contributor's election.
- Oversight and limits: The Administrator must consult public entities to avoid duplication and report to Congress within 180 days and annually thereafter on expenditures and proposed uses. Authority to collect voluntary contributions ends on December 31, 2031.
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Private funding pilot for NASA centers
This bill would let NASA run a pilot to accept voluntary financial or in-kind contributions to repair, improve, expand, or operate common-use infrastructure at one or more NASA Centers. NASA would only accept contributions to the extent and in the amounts Congress provides in an appropriations law. Each project would need a cost and schedule baseline, and NASA would share final project costs and a government/commercial cost-sharing breakdown with contributors when work finishes. Agreements would specify ownership (improvements would normally become U.S. government property unless NASA decides otherwise), who pays cost overruns or delays, and contributors could not recover contribution costs from other U.S. agreements. Any unspent contributed funds would be returned proportionally at project end, and project-dedicated funds still unused 90 days after a project becomes operational could be refunded or redesignated at the contributor's choice. NASA would be able to use streamlined acquisition procedures and could prioritize direct agreements outside the pilot when that would be faster or cheaper. The authority to accept new voluntary contributions under this pilot would end on December 31, 2031, but existing agreements and money already collected would remain valid.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Haridopolos, Mike [R-FL-8]
FL • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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