Florida Senate - 2026                              CS for SB 422
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Wright
       
       
       
       
       
       596-02248-26                                           2026422c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    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:
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   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, aircraft 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 landing, including, but not limited to, a touch-and-go
   40  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.