Bill Text: TX HB2973 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of spaceports as critical infrastructure facilities for purposes of criminal and civil liability.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-14 - Left pending in committee [HB2973 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2973-Introduced.html

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89R3015 SCR-D
By: Morales of Maverick H.B. No. 2973

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of spaceports as critical
infrastructure facilities for purposes of criminal and civil
liability.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 424.001, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 424.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "critical
infrastructure facility" has the meaning assigned by Section
423.0045(a)(1-a) and also includes:
(1) any pipeline transporting oil or gas or the
products or constituents of oil or gas;
(2) a public or private airport depicted in any
current aeronautical chart published by the Federal Aviation
Administration;
(3) a military installation owned or operated by or
for the federal government, this state, or another governmental
entity; [and]
(4) any property or facility that is:
(A) used for the launch, landing, or recovery of
spacecraft, as defined by Section 507.001, Local Government Code;
and
(B) licensed by the Federal Aviation
Administration or operated by a spaceport development corporation
under Chapter 507, Local Government Code; and
(5) a property, facility, or pipeline described by
this section that is under construction and all equipment and
appurtenances used during that construction.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense was
committed before that date.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
this Act. A cause of action that accrues before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the cause of
action accrued, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.