US Congress House Bill 4158 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 26-8)
Status: Passed on October 5 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-10-05 - Became Public Law No: 112-185.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Grants a U.S. astronaut who participated in any of the Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo programs through the completion of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, and who received an artifact during his participation, full ownership of and clear title to that artifact. Defines "artifact" as any expendable item utilized in missions for the Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo programs through the completion of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project not expressly required to be returned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the completion of the mission and other expendable, disposable, or personal-use items utilized by such an astronaut during participation in any such program, excluding lunar rocks and other lunar material. Prohibits the federal government from having any claim or right to ownership, control, or use of: (1) any artifact in the possession of such an astronaut; or (2) any such artifact that was subsequently transferred, sold, or assigned to a third party by such an astronaut.

To confirm full ownership rights for certain United States astronauts to artifacts from the astronauts' space missions.

Rep. Ralph Hall [R-TX]	Rep. Sandy Adams [R-FL]	Rep. Robert Aderholt [R-AL]	Rep. Todd Akin [R-MO]
Rep. Dan Benishek [R-MI]	Rep. Judy Biggert [R-IL]	Rep. Mo Brooks [R-AL]	Rep. Paul Broun [R-GA]
Rep. Hansen Clarke [D-MI]	Rep. Jerry Costello [D-IL]	Rep. Chip Cravaack [R-MN]	Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]
Rep. Robert Dold [R-IL]	Rep. Donna Edwards [D-MD]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Randy Hultgren [R-IL]
Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Frank Lucas [R-OK]
Rep. Michael McCaul [R-TX]	Rep. Mick Mulvaney [R-SC]	Rep. Randy Neugebauer [R-TX]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]
Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]	Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]	Rep. Benjamin Quayle [R-AZ]	Rep. Scott Rigell [R-VA]
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher [R-CA]	Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]	Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]
Rep. Joe Walsh [R-IL]	Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-10-05	Senate	Became Public Law No: 112-185.
2012-10-05	Senate	Signed by President.
2012-09-25	Senate	Presented to President.
2012-09-24	Senate	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2012-09-22	Senate	Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 9/21/2012 S6671)
2012-09-20	Senate	Received in the Senate, read twice.
2012-09-19	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2012-09-19	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6086)
2012-09-19	House	VACATING ORDER FOR YEAS AND NAYS - Mr. Hall asked unanimous consent that the ordering of the yeas and nays on the motion that the House suspend the rules and pass H.R. 4158 be vacated to the end that the Chair put the question de novo. Agreed to without objection.
2012-09-19	House	At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
2012-09-19	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4158.
2012-09-19	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6086-6088, H6096-6097)
2012-09-19	House	Mr. Hall moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
2012-03-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/4158/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr4158/BILLS-112hr4158ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr4158/BILLS-112hr4158eh.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr4158/BILLS-112hr4158enr.pdf