HB3184: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act; civil immunity for space flight entities.

Chief Patron

Terry Kilgore (R-1)
Gate City, VA
Served: 1994–

Progress

	Introduced
	Passed Committee
	Passed House
	Passed Senate
	Signed by Governor
	Became Law

Status

04/04/2007: enacted

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01/19/2007 Committee
01/19/2007 Presented and ordered printed 074664424
01/19/2007 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
01/25/2007 Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
01/26/2007 Impact statement from TAX (HB3184)
02/03/2007 Committee substitute printed 077237424-H1
02/03/2007 Read first time
02/05/2007 Read second time
02/05/2007 Committee substitute agreed to 077237424-H1
02/05/2007 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB3184H1
02/06/2007 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
02/06/2007 Communicated to Senate
02/07/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed
02/07/2007 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
02/19/2007 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
02/20/2007 Motion to reconsider Passed by for the day agreed to (40-Y 0-N)
02/20/2007 VOTE: (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2007 Passed by for the day
02/21/2007 Read third time
02/21/2007 Reading of amendments waived
02/21/2007 Committee amendments agreed to
02/21/2007 Engrossed by Senate as amended
02/21/2007 Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
02/21/2007 VOTE: (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/21/2007 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
02/21/2007 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
02/21/2007 VOTE: (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/22/2007 Placed on Calendar
02/22/2007 Senate amendments agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
02/22/2007 VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/12/2007 Enrolled
03/12/2007 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB3184ER)
03/12/2007 Signed by President
03/13/2007 Signed by Speaker
03/26/2007 Governor's recommendation received by House
03/27/2007 Governor's substitute printed 070439129-H2
04/03/2007 Placed on Calendar
04/04/2007 Enacted, Chapter (effective 7/1/07)
04/04/2007 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (99-Y 0-N)
04/04/2007 VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
04/04/2007 G Governor's recommendation adopted
04/04/2007 Reenrolled
04/04/2007 Reenrolled bill text (HB3184ER2)
04/04/2007 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
04/04/2007 Signed by President as reenrolled
04/04/2007 Enacted, Chapter 893 (effective 7/1/07)
04/11/2007 G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0893)

Summary

Spaceflight Liability and Immunity Act; corporate tax exemptions for spaceflight entities. Grants immunity to spaceflight entities providing spaceflight activities to any participant in a suborbital flight. Spaceflight entities are required to distribute warning statements to all participants notifying them of their immunity from civil suit. The Act does not provide immunity from gross negligence, situations where the spaceflight entity has actual knowledge of a dangerous condition, or intentional injuries to the participant. The bill also provides a state corporate income tax exemption for the sale of passenger tickets on a suborbital spaceflight conducted by a spaceflight entity and any gain recognized as a result of resupply services contracts entered with the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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