S.Amdt. 3640

SA 3640. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Brown) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3464 submitted by Mr.
Thune (for himself and Mr. Nelson) to the bill H.R. 636, to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend increased expensing
limitations, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

After section 2125, insert the following:

SEC. 2126. PILOT PROGRAM TO INTEGRATE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT
SYSTEMS INTO THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE.

(a) Additional Test Ranges.--Paragraph (1) of section
332(c) of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012
(Public Law 112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended--
(1) by striking ``Not later than'' and inserting the
following;
``(A) Initial test ranges.--Not later than''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(B) Additional test ranges.--
``(i) Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of the Federal Aviation Administration
Reauthorization Act of 2016, the Administrator shall
establish 4 additional test ranges under the program
established under subparagraph (A).
``(ii) Application.--The Administrator shall--

``(I) permit a State that submitted an application to be a
test range prior to such date of enactment to use that prior
submission, or a modified version of that submission, as an
application to be a test range under clause (i); and
``(II) permit States that did not submit an application to
be a test range prior to such date of enactment to apply to
be a test range under clause (i).''.

(b) Conforming Amendment.--Paragraph (3) of section 332(c)
of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law
112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended by striking ``6''.
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