Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1422
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
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                  04/11/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
       (Truenow) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 94 - 129
    4  and insert:
    5         330.411 Prohibited possession, alteration, or operation of
    6  unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system.—
    7         (1) As used in this section, the term:
    8         (a) “Unmanned aircraft” has the same meaning as the term
    9  “drone” in s. 934.50(2).
   10         (b) “Unmanned aircraft system” has the same meaning as in
   11  s. 330.41(2).
   12         (2) A person may not knowingly or willfully possess or
   13  operate an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system as
   14  defined in s. 330.41 with an attached weapon, firearm,
   15  explosive, destructive device, or ammunition as those terms are
   16  defined in s. 790.001.
   17         (3)(a) For the purposes of s. 330.41(4)(a), a person may
   18  not knowingly or willfully:
   19         1. Alter, manipulate, tamper with, or otherwise change an
   20  unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system’s hardware or
   21  software to purposefully frustrate any tool, system, or
   22  technology intended to satisfy the remote identification
   23  requirements established by the Federal Aviation Administration
   24  as they relate to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft
   25  system; or
   26         2. Possess or operate an unmanned aircraft or unmanned
   27  aircraft system that has been altered, manipulated, tampered
   28  with, or otherwise changed to purposefully frustrate any tool,
   29  system, or technology intended to satisfy the remote
   30  identification requirements established by the Federal Aviation
   31  Administration as they relate to any unmanned aircraft or
   32  unmanned aircraft system.
   33         (b) This subsection does not apply if a person is
   34  authorized by the administrator of the Federal Aviation
   35  Administration or the Secretary of Defense, or their respective
   36  designees, to alter, possess, or operate such an altered
   37  unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system.
   38         (4) A person who violates subsection (2) or subsection (3)
   39  commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in
   40  s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
   41         (5) A person who, without lawful authority, possesses or
   42  operates an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system
   43  carrying a “weapon of mass destruction” or a “hoax weapon of
   44  mass destruction,” as those terms are defined in s. 790.166(1),
   45  commits a felony of the first degree, punishable as provided in
   46  s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
   47  
   48  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   49  And the title is amended as follows:
   50         Delete lines 9 - 11
   51  and insert:
   52         330.411, F.S.; defining the terms “unmanned aircraft”
   53         and “unmanned aircraft system”; prohibiting certain
   54         actions relating to unmanned aircraft and unmanned
   55         aircraft systems; providing an exception; providing
   56         criminal penalties;