Bill Text: TX HB2521 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of vertiports.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-17 - Referred to Transportation [HB2521 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2521-Introduced.html
| 89R10522 JRR-F | ||
| By: Cook | H.B. No. 2521 | |
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| relating to the regulation of vertiports. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 21.073 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.073. REGULATION OF VERTIPORTS. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "Advanced air mobility" has the meaning assigned | ||
| by Section 21.072. | ||
| (2) "Vertiport" means infrastructure or a system with | ||
| supporting services and equipment intended for landing, | ||
| ground-handling, and takeoff of manned or unmanned vertical takeoff | ||
| and landing aircraft. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a vertiport that is | ||
| available for public use by an advanced air mobility operator | ||
| authorized by the United States Department of Transportation or | ||
| Federal Aviation Administration to engage in passenger or cargo | ||
| services in scheduled or unscheduled service in or affecting | ||
| interstate commerce. | ||
| (c) Each vertiport subject to this section must comply with | ||
| any applicable Federal Aviation Administration rule or advisory | ||
| circular containing standards for vertiport design and performance | ||
| characteristics. | ||
| (d) An owner or operator of a vertiport subject to this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) shall submit a vertiport layout plan to the | ||
| Federal Aviation Administration in the form and manner prescribed | ||
| by the Federal Aviation Administration; and | ||
| (2) may not conduct any operations at the vertiport | ||
| unless the Federal Aviation Administration approves the plan | ||
| submitted under Subdivision (1). | ||
| (e) A political subdivision of this state, in exercising the | ||
| political subdivision's zoning and land use authority: | ||
| (1) may not grant or permit an exclusive right to one | ||
| or more vertiport owners or operators; and | ||
| (2) shall use that authority to promote reasonable | ||
| access to vertiports located within the jurisdiction of the | ||
| political subdivision by advanced air mobility operators. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
