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FL H0349
Bill
Status
Failed
5/5/2023
Primary Sponsor
Doug Bankson
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AI Summary
- Creates s. 332.15, F.S., to promote a statewide network of vertiports—infrastructure for landing, ground-handling, and takeoff of manned or unmanned vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft—providing equitable access to advanced air mobility passenger and cargo services
- Requires the Florida Department of Transportation to fund planning and construction of public-use vertiports (subject to legislative appropriation), encourage local zoning boards to strategically place vertiports, and prohibit granting exclusive rights to any vertiport owner or operator
- Applies to any vertiport in Florida available for public use by advanced air mobility operators authorized by the U.S. DOT or FAA for passenger or cargo services in interstate commerce
- Requires vertiport owners to comply with FAA design and performance standards and submit a vertiport layout plan to the FAA administrator, with no aircraft operations permitted until the plan is approved
- Prohibits political subdivisions from using zoning or land use authority to grant exclusive rights to vertiport owners or operators, and provides that federal law supersedes any conflicting provision of the section; effective July 1, 2023
Legislative Description
Vertiports
Last Action
Died in Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
5/5/2023
Committee Referrals
Transportation & Modals Subcommittee2/1/2023
Full Bill Text
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