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Committee carries over bill increasing penalties for UAS interference with emergency response
Summary
The House Committee on Judiciary carried over Senate Bill 1125A after staff described an A2 amendment that revises criminal penalties for using unmanned aircraft systems to interfere with emergency-response efforts.
The House Committee on Judiciary carried over Senate Bill 1125A for further review after committee staff said the measure has been amended to incorporate provisions from a related House bill and to confirm penalty classifications.
The bill revises criminal penalties for interference with emergency-response efforts using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). As presented to the committee, the dash-A2 amendment would: create a class B misdemeanor for recklessly causing UAS interference with law enforcement, firefighting, search-and-rescue, or emergency-response…
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