No. CS/CS/CS/HB 1177
Filed under Transportation.
Spaceport Operations and Space Florida; Requires governing board of certain seaports to coordinate with Space Florida for specified purposes; provides that Space Florida is not agency & is not subject to certain bidding & contract procedures under certain conditions; requires Space Florida to employ full-time business development director for specified purposes; revises membership of Space Florida board of directors.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDSpace Florida no longer has to follow the state's professional-services and construction competitive-bidding rules when it pays with its own, nonappropriated funds.
Seaports within five miles of a nearby spaceport must coordinate with Space Florida before changing their strategic plans, to avoid conflicting with Space Florida's business plan.
Space Florida must hire a full-time business development director focused on specific spaceport territories, including areas like advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft.
The Jacksonville Aviation Authority gets its own seat among the board's appointed members, instead of sharing a single nonvoting seat with two other groups.
AIA seaport governing board within five miles of a 'strategic spaceport hub' must coordinate with Space Florida before changing its strategic plan, so the change does not conflict with Space Florida's business plan.
AISpace Florida is exempted from the state's professional-services competitive-negotiation law and its construction-contracting bid law, but only when it pays with nonappropriated funds and attests in writing that the funds are nonappropriated.
AISpace Florida must employ a full-time business development director for specific spaceport territories, focused on growing activities such as horizontal launch, advanced air mobility, and unmanned aerial vehicles at those sites.
AIThe Jacksonville Aviation Authority is dropped from the list of entities sharing one nonvoting, ex officio board seat and instead receives its own separate paragraph among the board's other appointed members.