SB 867

This bill defines and regulates vertiports, which the bill defines as

“infrastructure or a system with supporting services and equipment intended for

landing, ground-handling, and takeoff of crewed or uncrewed vertical takeoff and

landing aircraft.”

Under the bill, no person may operate a vertiport that is available for public use

by an advanced air mobility operator to engage in service in interstate commerce

unless the vertiport layout is approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, and

the vertiport is operated in accordance with FAA rules or guidance pertaining to

vertiport design and performance.

Under the bill, counties, cities, villages, and towns must use zoning and land

use authority to promote reasonable access to advanced air mobility operators at

public vertiports and may not grant or permit an exclusive right of operation to one

or more vertiport owners or operators.