| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to spaceport facilities; amending s. |
| 3 | 331.303, F.S.; defining the term "launch support |
| 4 | facilities"; deleting the term "spaceport launch |
| 5 | facilities"; providing an effective date. |
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| 7 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 9 | Section 1. Present subsection (17) of section 331.303, |
| 10 | Florida Statutes, is repealed, present subsections (11) through |
| 11 | (16) are renumbered as subsections (12) through (17), |
| 12 | respectively, and a new subsection (11) is added to that |
| 13 | section, to read: |
| 14 | 331.303 Definitions.- |
| 15 | (11) "Launch support facilities" means facilities that are |
| 16 | located at launch sites or launch ranges that are required to |
| 17 | support launch activities, including launch vehicle assembly, |
| 18 | launch vehicle operations and control, communications, and |
| 19 | flight safety functions, as well as payload operations, control, |
| 20 | and processing. |
| 21 | (17) "Spaceport launch facilities" means industrial |
| 22 | facilities as described in s. 380.0651(3)(c), Florida Statutes |
| 23 | 2010, and include any launch pad, launch control center, and |
| 24 | fixed launch-support equipment. |
| 25 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012. |