Bill Text: IL SR0792 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the United States Congress to repeal the provisions of the Federal Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act that require the FAA to develop a plan to expand the use of unmanned aircraft in the airspace above the continental United States and any other territory or possession of the United States, and thereby repeal the FAA's rules that have begun to implement the mandated plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SR0792 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SR0792-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Unmanned aircraft are aircraft that are operated | ||||||
| 3 | without the possibility of direct human intervention or control | ||||||
| 4 | from within or on the aircraft; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, These unmanned aircraft are most commonly | ||||||
| 6 | referred to as drones; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, New developments in technology allow the creation | ||||||
| 8 | of increasingly smaller unmanned aircraft that are | ||||||
| 9 | undetectable by the naked eye; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, The United States Congress enacted the Federal | ||||||
| 11 | Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act ("the | ||||||
| 12 | Act") which requires the Federal Aviation Administration to | ||||||
| 13 | develop a plan to accelerate the integration of civil unmanned | ||||||
| 14 | aircraft into the national airspace system by 2015; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Following the passage of the Act, the Federal | ||||||
| 16 | Aviation Administration (FAA) began to issue rules to implement | ||||||
| 17 | the Act's mandated plan, including rules that allow law | ||||||
| 18 | enforcement agencies to operate small unmanned aerial | ||||||
| 19 | vehicles; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, Allowing an increased amount of small unmanned | ||||||
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| 1 | aircraft to fly in the national airspace expands the | ||||||
| 2 | government's aerial surveillance capability and threatens the | ||||||
| 3 | protected privacy rights of Illinois citizens; therefore, be it
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| 4 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 5 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we strongly urge the | ||||||
| 6 | United States Congress to repeal the provisions of the Act that | ||||||
| 7 | require the FAA to develop a plan to expand the use of unmanned | ||||||
| 8 | aircraft in the airspace above the continental United States | ||||||
| 9 | and any other territory or possession of the United States, and | ||||||
| 10 | thereby repeal the FAA's rules that have begun to implement the | ||||||
| 11 | mandated plan; and be it further
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| 12 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 13 | delivered to the Speaker and Minority Leader of the United | ||||||
| 14 | States House of Representatives, the Majority and Minority | ||||||
| 15 | Leaders of the United States Senate, and the members of the | ||||||
| 16 | Illinois congressional delegation.
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