SB2569

The same agencies remain covered: every state law-enforcement agency, and county or municipal law-enforcement agencies in counties or municipalities, respectively, with more than 150,000 residents, if they used or operated an unmanned aircraft in the preceding 24 months. The January 1–15 reporting window in each odd-numbered year is unchanged. Final law; Previous reporting law.

The old subsection required sending a written report to the governor, lieutenant governor and every legislator, keeping it for public viewing, and posting it online if the agency had a public website. The new subsection instead requires online posting or another means of public availability when no public website exists. It does not prescribe a particular alternative format. The bill changes only subsection (a), leaving subsection (b)’s required contents intact: use dates, times, locations and justifications; investigative and other operational uses; information collected about people or property outside an operation’s target; and acquisition, maintenance, repair and operating costs over the preceding 24 months. Final law; Previous reporting law.

The introduced, Senate committee, Senate-passed, House committee and enrolled versions have identical operative provisions. The official amendment index lists no amendments. Text versions; Introduced text; Amendment index; Final law.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

Covered agencies no longer have this statutory duty to distribute copies to each named state official, while residents retain a right to public availability of the report under this provision. That changes the delivery channel, not the reported subjects or the legal authority to conduct drone surveillance. This briefing does not establish whether any particular agency has complied. Final law; Previous reporting law.

The only posted fiscal note, dated April 7, expects no significant state or local fiscal effect and assumes state costs can be absorbed with existing resources. It does not quantify administrative savings or a change in privacy outcomes. Fiscal note.