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| Bill | 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. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2021 | HB 221 | Florida HB 221 (2021) |
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enacted | 2021-197 | 4 | 44 | 5 | 2021-01-12 | 2021-07-06 | openstates | ocd-bill/218e34e7-48d8-47c8-ad6a-b5322981833e | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/221/ByCategory | 97d4bce310562f020b33a1e7f1ad9eb22eee4184abecfb9269249701512df26f | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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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.
- H 221 Filed (filed) — source
- H 221 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 221 c2 (committee substitute) — source
- H 221 er (enrolled) — source
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; origin ocd-bill/218e34e7-48d8-47c8-ad6a-b5322981833e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).