Florida Senate - 2012                                     SB 634
       
       
       
       By Senator Benacquisto
       
       
       
       
       27-00575-12                                            2012634__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to spaceport facilities; amending s.
    3         331.303, F.S.; defining the term “launch support
    4         facilities”; deleting the term “spaceport launch
    5         facilities”; providing an effective date.
    6  
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    8  
    9         Section 1. Present subsection (17) of section 331.303,
   10  Florida Statutes, is repealed, present subsections (11) through
   11  (16) are renumbered as subsections (12) through (17),
   12  respectively, and a new subsection (11) is added to that
   13  section, to read:
   14         331.303 Definitions.—
   15         (11) “Launch support facilities” means facilities that are
   16  located at launch sites or launch ranges that are required to
   17  support launch activities, including launch vehicle assembly,
   18  launch vehicle operations and control, communications, and
   19  flight safety functions, as well as payload operations, control,
   20  and processing.
   21         (17) “Spaceport launch facilities” means industrial
   22  facilities as described in s. 380.0651(3)(c), Florida Statutes
   23  2010, and include any launch pad, launch control center, and
   24  fixed launch-support equipment.
   25         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.