No. CS/CS/CS/HB 1093
Filed under Environment & Water.
Vertiports; Authorizes DOT to fund up to specified percentages of public vertiport project costs.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Transportation may now cover the entire cost of building a public vertiport, but only when no federal funding is available for the project.
When federal money is available for the project instead, the state may pay up to 80 percent of whatever share the federal government does not already cover.
Vertiport pads, charging systems, safety zones, grid upgrades, and backup power systems now count as airport infrastructure, folding vertiports into the safety program every commercial airport must certify each year.
Vertiports and their charging systems also become eligible for the state's public-private partnership program, the same track used for other public infrastructure like water systems and government buildings.
AIIf no federal funding is available for a public vertiport project, the Department of Transportation may pay for the entire thing itself, up to 100 percent of project costs.
AIWhen federal funding is available for the project, the department's contribution drops to a ceiling of 80 percent of whatever share the federal government leaves uncovered.
AIVertiport pads, safety zones, charging systems, grid upgrades, and resilience energy systems now count toward the comprehensive infrastructure program every commercial service airport must certify to the state annually.
AIVertiports and their charging systems are added as a qualifying project type under the state's public-private partnership statute, the same list that already covers public buildings and water facilities.