Bill Amendment: FL S0908 | 2023 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act

Status: 2023-05-01 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 645 (Ch. 2023-147), CS/CS/SB 264 (Ch. 2023-33) [S0908 Detail]

Download: Florida-2023-S0908-Senate_Committee_Amendment_763914.html

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       Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 908
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Transportation (Rodriguez) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 23 - 52
    4  and insert:
    5         1. A An electrical power generation or transmission
    6  facility, substation, switching station, or electrical control
    7  center.
    8         2. A chemical or rubber manufacturing or storage facility.
    9         3. A water intake structure, water treatment facility,
   10  wastewater treatment plant, or pump station.
   11         4.3. A mining facility.
   12         5.4. A natural gas or compressed gas compressor station,
   13  storage facility, or natural gas or compressed gas pipeline.
   14         6.5. A liquid natural gas or propane gas terminal or
   15  storage facility with a capacity of 4,000 gallons or more.
   16         7.6. Any portion of an aboveground oil or gas pipeline.
   17         8.7. A wireless communications facility, including the
   18  tower, antennae, support structures, and all associated ground
   19  based equipment.
   20         9. A deepwater port listed in s. 311.09(1) or a railroad
   21  switching yard. However, such deepwater port need not be
   22  completely enclosed by a fence or other physical barrier and
   23  need not be marked with a sign or signs indicating that entry is
   24  forbidden.
   25         10. An airport as defined in s. 330.27.
   26         11. A spaceport territory as defined in s. 331.303(18).
   27         12. A military installation listed in s. 163.3175(2).
   28         13. A dam as defined in s. 373.403(1) or other structures,
   29  such as locks, floodgates, or dikes, which are designed to
   30  maintain or control the level of navigable waterways.
   31         14.8. A state correctional institution as defined in s.
   32  944.02 or a private correctional facility authorized under
   33  chapter 957.
   34         15.9. A secure detention center or facility, as defined in
   35  s. 985.03, or a nonsecure residential facility, a high-risk
   36  residential facility, or a maximum-risk residential facility, as
   37  those terms are described in s. 985.03(44).
   38         16.10. A county detention facility, as defined in s.
   39  951.23.
   40         (3) REGULATION.—
   41         (d) A person or governmental entity seeking to restrict or
   42  limit the operation of drones in close proximity to
   43  infrastructure or facilities that the person or governmental
   44  entity owns or operates must apply to the Federal Aviation
   45  Administration for such designation pursuant to s. 2209 of the
   46  FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016.
   47         (4) PROTECTION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES.—
   48         (d) Subparagraph (a)1. does not apply to a drone operating
   49  in transit for commercial purposes in compliance with Federal
   50  Aviation Administration regulations, authorizations, or
   51  exemptions.
   52         (e) This subsection and paragraph (2)(a) shall sunset 60
   53  days after the date that a process pursuant to s. 2209 of the
   54  FAA Extension, Safety and Security Act of 2016 becomes
   55  effective.
   56  
   57  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   58  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   59         Delete lines 12 - 13
   60  and insert:
   61         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2), paragraph (d)
   62  of subsection (3), and paragraphs (d) and (e) of subsection (4)
   63  of section 330.41, Florida Statutes, are
   64  
   65  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   66  And the title is amended as follows:
   67         Delete line 8
   68  and insert:
   69         areas; deleting a provision allowing a drone operating
   70         in transit for commercial purposes to operate over a
   71         critical infrastructure facility under certain
   72         circumstances; providing for the future sunset of the
   73         definition of the term “critical infrastructure
   74         facility”; providing an effective date.