---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recovery of Spaceflight Assets"
description: "Recovery of Spaceflight Assets; Provides spaceflight entity retains ownership of spaceflight asset after launch or upon reentry; requires person who finds item reasonably identifiable as spaceflight asset to report description & location to law enforcement; requires law enforcement to notify owner of spaceflight asset; authorizes owner of spaceflight asset to enter private property; prohibits person from appropriating spaceflight asset to his or her own use or refusing to surrender spaceflight asset to law enforcement or owner; provides criminal penalties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 221"
citation: "Florida HB 221 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["aviation"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-197"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/218e34e7-48d8-47c8-ad6a-b5322981833e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/221/ByCategory"
source_hash: "97d4bce310562f020b33a1e7f1ad9eb22eee4184abecfb9269249701512df26f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida HB 221 (2021) — Recovery of Spaceflight Assets

Recovery of Spaceflight Assets; Provides spaceflight entity retains ownership of spaceflight asset after launch or upon reentry; requires person who finds item reasonably identifiable as spaceflight asset to report description & location to law enforcement; requires law enforcement to notify owner of spaceflight asset; authorizes owner of spaceflight asset to enter private property; prohibits person from appropriating spaceflight asset to his or her own use or refusing to surrender spaceflight asset to law enforcement or owner; provides criminal penalties.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-197.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 221 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/221/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 221 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/221/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 221 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/221/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 221 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/221/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **115–1** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Judiciary Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-12** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-22** Referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety Subcommittee; Tourism, Infrastructure and Energy Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** PCS added to Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-03** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
- **2021-03-04** Reported out of Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
- **2021-03-04** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-03-04** CS Filed
- **2021-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-03-08** Referred to Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** Now in Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee
- **2021-03-09** Added to Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-11** Favorable by Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** Reported out of Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee
- **2021-03-11** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2021-03-22** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2021-03-24** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee
- **2021-03-24** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2021-03-24** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-03-24** CS Filed
- **2021-03-25** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-03-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-03-26** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/15/2021)
- **2021-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-15** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-15** In Messages
- **2021-04-19** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received
- **2021-04-22** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-22** Substituted for CS/SB 936
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-197

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/218e34e7-48d8-47c8-ad6a-b5322981833e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).