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US HB7379
Bill
Status
2/4/2026
Primary Sponsor
Haley Stevens
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AI Summary
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Grants NASA authority to detect, identify, monitor, and track unmanned aircraft systems (drones) that pose credible threats to designated high-risk facilities and assets related to launch services, reentry services, and space support vehicles
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Allows interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications used to control threatening drones without prior consent, notwithstanding existing wiretapping and communications laws
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Requires NASA to conduct risk-based assessments of facilities considering threat information, national airspace impacts, and potential consequences to national security before designating them as protected "covered facilities"
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Establishes privacy protections requiring communications data retention for no more than 180 days unless needed for law enforcement, and mandates consistency with First and Fourth Amendment rights
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Authority expires September 30, 2031, and requires semiannual congressional briefings on activities, privacy policies, and any harm or damage resulting from actions taken under the law
Legislative Description
NASA C-UAS Act NASA Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Authority Act
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2/4/2026