No. CS/CS/SB 1362
Filed under Environment & Water.
Vertiports; Revising the definition of the term “airport infrastructure”; authorizing the Department of Transportation to fund up to specified percentages of public vertiport project costs, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Transportation may now fund up to 100 percent of a public vertiport's cost when no federal money is available, or up to 80 percent of whatever federal funds don't cover.
Vertiport pads, safety zones, charging systems, grid upgrades, and resilience energy systems now count as 'airport infrastructure,' so commercial service airports must fold them into the infrastructure program they already certify annually.
Vertiports and their charging systems are added to the list of projects a county, hospital district, or other public body can designate as a qualifying public-private partnership project.
AIWhen no federal funds are available, the Department of Transportation may cover the entire cost of a public vertiport project. When federal funds are available, it may fund up to 80 percent of whatever share federal money leaves uncovered.
AICommercial service airports must include vertiport pads, safety zones, charging systems, grid upgrades, and resilience energy systems within the comprehensive airport infrastructure program they are already required to certify annually.
AIVertiports and their charging systems join the list of projects -- alongside water and wastewater facilities and certain hospital or utility projects -- that a governing board may designate as a qualifying project eligible for this section's public-private partnership process.