To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish in the Department of Transportation a drone infrastructure inspection grant program and a drone education and training grant program, and for other purposes.
Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act
This bill establishes programs within the Department of Transportation (DOT) to support the use of drones and other small, unmanned aircraft systems when inspecting, repairing, or constructing road infrastructure, electric grid infrastructure, water infrastructure, or other critical infrastructure.
Specifically, DOT must award grants to state, tribal, and local governments; metropolitan planning organizations; or groups of those entities to purchase or otherwise use drones to increase efficiency, reduce costs, improve worker and community safety, reduce carbon emissions, or meet other priorities related to critical infrastructure projects. Grant recipients must use domestically manufactured drones that are made by companies not subject to influence or control from certain foreign entities, including China and Russia.
DOT must also award grants to certain institutions of higher education for training students for careers using drones and related technologies.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Subcommittee on Aviation Discharged.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 54 - 4.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 117-460.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 117-460.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 357.
Ms. Norton moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7750-7752)
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DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5315.
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7778-7779)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 308 - 110 (Roll no. 422).
Roll Call #422 (House)On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 308 - 110 (Roll no. 422). (text: CR H7750)
Roll Call #422 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate.