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CS/HB 387

Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcasts

VERSION H 387 c1 · BACK TO THE SUMMARY · OFFICIAL RECORD

underlined language is being added; struck language is being deleted. Line numbers are the Legislature's own — the same ones amendments cite.

1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to automatic dependent surveillance
3 broadcasts; creating s. 330.42, F.S.; providing
4 definitions; prohibiting airports from using
5 information broadcast or collected by automatic
6 dependent surveillance broadcast systems for specified
7 purposes under certain conditions; providing an
8 effective date.
10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
12 Section 1. Section 330.42, Florida Statutes, is created to
13 read:
14 330.42 Automatic dependent surveillance broadcasts.—
15 (1) For purposes of this section, the term:
16 (a) "Aircraft" has the same meaning as in s. 330.27,
17 except that the aircraft must have a gross weight of 12,499
18 pounds or less and operate under 14 C.F.R. part 91.
19 (b) "Automatic dependent surveillance broadcast" means an
20 advanced aviation surveillance technology that combines an
21 aircraft's positioning source, aircraft avionics, and a ground
22 infrastructure to create an accurate surveillance interface
23 between an aircraft and air traffic control. The term includes
24 two different services, ADS-B In and ADS-B Out, that can provide
25 information, such as an aircraft's global positioning system
26 location, altitude, ground speed, and other data, to ground
27 stations and other aircraft, as well as weather and
28 traffic information to aircraft operators.
29 (c) "Touch-and-go landing" means an operation by an
30 aircraft that lands and departs on a runway without stopping or
31 exiting the runway.
32 (2) An airport may not use information broadcast or
33 collected by automatic dependent surveillance broadcast systems,
34 regardless of whether that data originates from ADS-B In or ADS-
35 B Out, as a means for calculating, generating, and collecting
36 fees from aircraft owners or operators who operate aircraft
37 within the geographic boundaries of this state under the
38 following circumstances:
39 (a) When the operation for which a fee would be assessed
40 is a departure or landing, including, but not limited to, a
41 touch-and-go landing.
42 (b) When the fee would be assessed based on an aircraft
43 entering into a specified radius of the airspace of the airport
44 assessing the fee.
45 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.