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Committee approves bill barring low-altitude drone flights over critical infrastructure
Summary
Senate Bill 164, sponsored by Senator Orr and handled in committee by a cosponsor, would bar drones from flying within 200 vertical feet of listed critical-infrastructure facilities; the committee gave the bill a favorable report.
Senator Orr (handled in committee by a cosponsor) described SB 164 as a measure to prevent drone flights within 200 vertical feet of critical infrastructure.
"This is one that just prevents somebody from flying a, drone over, over a vertical distance of 200 feet within, a critical infrastructure facility," Senator Orr said, and cited examples including Maxwell Air Force Base, Redstone Arsenal, NASA facilities and TVA hydroelectric dams.
Committee members asked whether prisons were covered; a senator said prisons are covered under other code sections and suggested sponsors ensure that language is included in a substitute if necessary. The sponsor said prison coverage would be addressed under different code sections and asked colleagues to include prisons in substitutions if they wished.
A motion carried and the committee recorded a favorable report with eight ayes. No fiscal impact or enforcement agency was specified in the committee remarks captured in the transcript.
