{"id":1155,"date":"2013-03-07T17:15:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?page_id=1155"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:15:52","slug":"drone-legislation-montana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/drone-legislation\/drone-legislation-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Legislation &#8211; Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\"><b>Montana \u2013 SB 150(1) and SB 196<\/b><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><b>Title<\/b><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><b>AN ACT LIMITING THE USE OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; AND PROHIBITING ANY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY WITHIN THE STATE OF MONTANA OWNING OR UTILIZING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES WITH ANTIPERSONNEL DEVICES<\/b><\/h1>\n<h3>Sponsor(s):<\/h3>\n<p>Representative Driscoll<\/p>\n<h3>Synopsis:<\/h3>\n<p>A governmental entity within the state of Montana may not own, utilize, contract for, or otherwise obtain any services from an unmanned aerial vehicle containing an antipersonnel device.<\/p>\n<p>A person commits the offense of unmanned aerial vehicle data collection if a person purposely or knowingly operates an unmanned aerial vehicle in or upon the premises of another for the purpose of acquiring information through the use of a sensing device that is capable of acquiring data from its surroundings, including but not limited to a camera, microphone, thermal detector, chemical detector, radiation gauge, and wireless receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Definition of UAV would include MA<\/p>\n<h3>Tracking Site: <a href=\"https:\/\/leg.mt.gov\/css\/bills\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/leg.mt.gov\/css\/bills\/default.asp<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Status:<\/h3>\n<p>2 bills have passed Senate, One bill is a moratorium on drone use, the other provides legal protections for use<b><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Recommended Action<\/h3>\n<p>Contact sponsor\/leadership with request to include MA exclusion\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cModel Aircraft as defined in the Federal Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 [PL 112-95, Sec. 336(c)] are excluded from the provisions of this Bill\/Statute\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continue to monitor<\/p>\n<h3>Related News Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ussjoin.com\/2013\/01\/montana-drones.html\">Present\/Future Drones<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mtstandard.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/place-limits-on-the-use-of-drones\/article_98fdfce8-7a57-11e2-8012-001a4bcf887a.html\">MT Standard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulr8.com\/news\/local\/Drones-Fly-Their-way-into-Montanas-Legislature--189941771.html\">kulr8.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2013\/02\/anti-drone-bills-pass-virginia-house-montana-senate\/\">Tenth Amendment Center<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana \u2013 SB 150(1) and SB 196 Title AN ACT LIMITING THE USE OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; AND PROHIBITING ANY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY WITHIN THE STATE OF MONTANA OWNING OR UTILIZING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES WITH ANTIPERSONNEL DEVICES Sponsor(s): Representative Driscoll Synopsis: A governmental entity within the state of Montana may not [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3955,"parent":1105,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1155","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155\/revisions\/1156"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}