Florida Senate - 2022                                     SB 780
       
       
        
       By Senator Hutson
       
       
       
       
       
       7-00710-22                                             2022780__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to airports; amending s. 332.007,
    3         F.S.; revising the types of airports eligible for
    4         specified funding of master planning and eligible
    5         aviation development projects by the Florida
    6         Department of Transportation; providing an effective
    7         date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (6) of section
   12  332.007, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         332.007 Administration and financing of aviation and
   14  airport programs and projects; state plan.—
   15         (6) Subject to the availability of appropriated funds, the
   16  department may participate in the capital cost of eligible
   17  public airport and aviation development projects in accordance
   18  with the following rates, unless otherwise provided in the
   19  General Appropriations Act or the substantive bill implementing
   20  the General Appropriations Act:
   21         (c) When federal funds are not available, the department
   22  may fund up to 80 percent of master planning and eligible
   23  aviation development projects at publicly owned, publicly
   24  operated airports. If federal funds are available, the
   25  department may fund up to 80 percent of the nonfederal share of
   26  such projects. Such funding is limited to general aviation
   27  airports, or commercial service airports that have fewer than
   28  100,000 passenger boardings per year as determined by the
   29  Federal Aviation Administration airports that have no scheduled
   30  commercial service.
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.