Bill Text: FL H0097 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Spaceport Facilities

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-24 - Laid on Table, refer to SB 634 -HJ 254 [H0097 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-H0097-Introduced.html

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HB 97

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to spaceport facilities; amending s.
3	331.303, F.S.; defining the term "launch support
4	facilities"; deleting the term "spaceport launch
5	facilities"; providing an effective date.
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7	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9	Section 1.  Present subsection (17) of section 331.303,
10	Florida Statutes, is repealed, present subsections (11) through
11	(16) are renumbered as subsections (12) through (17),
12	respectively, and a new subsection (11) is added to that
13	section, to read:
14	331.303  Definitions.-
15	(11)  "Launch support facilities" means facilities that are
16	located at launch sites or launch ranges that are required to
17	support launch activities, including launch vehicle assembly,
18	launch vehicle operations and control, communications, and
19	flight safety functions, as well as payload operations, control,
20	and processing.
21	(17)  "Spaceport launch facilities" means industrial
22	facilities as described in s. 380.0651(3)(c), Florida Statutes
23	2010, and include any launch pad, launch control center, and
24	fixed launch-support equipment.
25	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.