Congress speeds up reports on who gets to run space cameras.
H.R. 1325 — Commercial Remote Sensing Amendment Act of 2025 · Filed by Frank Lucas (R-OK) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill makes the agency report twice as fast. Reports must come in 60 days instead of 120 days. The agency must show all the rules for each license. It must publish every request and every license. It must explain why each license gets its rank. The rule stays until 2030.
Who it affects
People and Congress get faster reports on space camera licenses. Companies that want licenses will have their requests and decisions made public. The agency that gives out licenses must work faster.
One thing to notice
The bill makes the agency share more details about space camera licenses and do it much faster.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Feb 13, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 13, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology”
- Mar 24, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
- Mar 24, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Babin moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $430,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Frank Lucas, who sponsored the bill, received $712,880 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Navajo Nation — $270,000 in 2 reports
- Vantor Parent Inc — $160,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- license — Official permission from the agency to run a space camera.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,470 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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