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Bill would add spaceports and testing facilities to Texas’ critical infrastructure list
Summary
Senate Bill 1198 would designate spaceports and spaceflight testing facilities as critical infrastructure under state law, exposing damaging or disrupting such facilities to heightened civil and criminal penalties; the committee received testimony from SpaceX’s Starbase and left the measure pending.
Senate Bill 1198, introduced by the sponsor on the floor, would add spaceports — including testing facilities used in licensed spaceflight activities — to Texas’ statutory list of critical infrastructure facilities. The change would make interference with those facilities subject to civil liability and a range of criminal penalties already applied to other critical infrastructure such as airports and electric generating plants.
Sponsor remarks said the measure is intended to…
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