Title: Airports

Summary: Increasing eligibility for certain funding by the Department of Transportation to include airports that have fewer than a specified number of commercial passenger enplanements annually, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to airports; amending s. 332.007, F.S.; increasing eligibility for certain funding by the Department of Transportation to include airports that have fewer than a specified number of commercial passenger enplanements annually; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (6) of section 332.007, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 332.007 Administration and financing of aviation and airport programs and projects; state plan.  (6) Subject to the availability of appropriated funds, the department may participate in the capital cost of eligible public airport and aviation development projects in accordance with the following rates, unless otherwise provided in the General Appropriations Act or the substantive bill implementing the General Appropriations Act: (c) When federal funds are not available, the department may fund up to percent of master planning and eligible aviation development projects at publicly owned, publicly operated airports. If federal funds are available, the department may fund up to percent of the nonfederal share of such projects. Such funding is limited to airports that have fewer than 500,000 commercial passenger enplanements annually no scheduled commercial service.Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.