Florida SB 422: Automatic Dependent Surveillance-broadcasts

Bill Text

422 
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-broadcasts 
2026-03-18T11:43:07Z 
Prohibiting airports from using information broadcast or collected by automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast systems for specified purposes under certain circumstances, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to automatic dependent surveillance 
 3 broadcasts; creating s. 330.42, F.S.; defining terms; 
 4 prohibiting airports from using information broadcast 
 5 or collected by automatic dependent surveillance 
 6 broadcast systems for specified purposes under certain 
 7 circumstances; providing an effective date. 
 8 
 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 10 
 11 Section 1. Section 330.42, Florida Statutes, is created to 
 12 read: 
 13 330.42 Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcasts.— 
 14 (1) For purposes of this section, the term: 
 15 (a) “Aircraft” has the same meaning as in s. 330.27, except 
 16 that the aircraft must have a gross weight of 12,499 pounds or 
 17 less and operate under 14 C.F.R. part 91. 
 18 (b) “Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast” or “ADS-B” 
 19 means an advanced aviation surveillance technology that combines 
 20 an aircraft’s positioning source, the aircraft’s avionics, and a 
 21 ground infrastructure to create an accurate surveillance 
 22 interface between an aircraft and air traffic control. The term 
 23 includes two different services, ADS-B In and ADS-B Out, which 
 24 can provide information, such as an aircraft’s global 
 25 positioning system location, altitude, ground speed, and other 
 26 data, to ground stations and other aircraft, as well as weather 
 27 and traffic information to aircraft operators. 
 28 (c) “Touch-and-go landing” means an operation by an 
 29 aircraft that lands and departs on a runway without stopping or 
 30 exiting the runway. 
 31 (2) An airport may not use information broadcast or 
 32 collected by automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast systems, 
 33 regardless of whether that data originates from ADS-B In or ADS 
 34 B Out, as a means for calculating, generating, and collecting 
 35 fees from aircraft owners or operators who operate aircraft 
 36 within the geographic boundaries of this state under the 
 37 following circumstances: 
 38 (a) When the operation for which a fee would be assessed is 
 39 a departure or a landing, including, but not limited to, a 
 40 touch-and-go landing. 
 41 (b) When the fee would be assessed based on an aircraft 
 42 entering into a specified radius of the airspace of the airport 
 43 assessing the fee. 
 44 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.