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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1250
To authorize Counter-UAS activities on and off commercial service airport
property, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
APRIL2, 2025
Mr. L
EEintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To authorize Counter-UAS activities on and off commercial
service airport property, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stopping Harmful In-4
cidents to Enforce Lawful Drone Use Act’’ or the 5
‘‘SHIELD U Act’’. 6
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 7
In this Act: 8
(1) C
OMMERCIAL SERVICE AIRPORT .—The term 9
‘‘commercial service airport’’ has the meaning given 10
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that term in paragraph (7) of section 47102 of title 1
49, United States Code, and includes the area of 2
navigable airspace necessary to ensure safety in the 3
takeoff and landing of aircraft at the airport. 4
(2) C
OVERED AIR CARRIER .—The term ‘‘cov-5
ered air carrier’’ means an air carrier or a foreign 6
air carrier as those terms are defined in section 7
40102 of title 49, United States Code. 8
(3) C
OUNTER-UAS ACTIVITIES.—The term 9
‘‘Counter-UAS activities’’ means the following: 10
(A) Detecting, identifying, monitoring, and 11
tracking an unmanned aircraft or unmanned 12
aircraft system, without prior consent, including 13
by means of intercept or other access of a wire 14
communication, an oral communication, or an 15
electronic communication used to control the 16
unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft sys-17
tem. 18
(B) Warning an operator of an unmanned 19
aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, including 20
by passive or active, and direct or indirect phys-21
ical, electronic, radio, and electromagnetic 22
means. 23
(C) Disrupting control of an unmanned 24
aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, without 25
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prior consent, including by disabling the un-1
manned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system 2
by intercepting, interfering, or causing inter-3
ference with wire, oral, electronic, or radio com-4
munications used to control the unmanned air-5
craft or unmanned aircraft system. 6
(D) Seizing or exercising control of an un-7
manned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system. 8
(E) Seizing or otherwise confiscating an 9
unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft sys-10
tem. 11
(F) Using reasonable force to disable, 12
damage, or destroy an unmanned aircraft or 13
unmanned aircraft system. 14
(4) N
AVIGABLE AIRSPACE.—The term ‘‘navi-15
gable airspace’’ has the meaning given that term in 16
paragraph (32) of section 40102 of title 49, United 17
States Code. 18
(5) N
ON-KINETIC EQUIPMENT .—The term 19
‘‘non-kinetic equipment’’ means equipment that is 20
used to— 21
(A) intercept or otherwise access a wire 22
communication, an oral communication, an elec-23
tronic communication, or a radio communica-24
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tion used to control an unmanned aircraft or 1
unmanned aircraft system; and 2
(B) disrupt control of the unmanned air-3
craft or unmanned aircraft system, without 4
prior consent, including by disabling the un-5
manned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system 6
by intercepting, interfering, or causing inter-7
ference with wire, oral, electronic, or radio com-8
munications that are used to control the un-9
manned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system. 10
(6) T
HREATS POSED BY AN UNMANNED AIR -11
CRAFT OR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM .—The 12
term ‘‘threats posed by an unmanned aircraft or un-13
manned aircraft system’’ means an unauthorized ac-14
tivity of an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft 15
system that is reasonably believed to— 16
(A) create the potential for bodily harm to, 17
or loss of human life of, a person within prop-18
erty under the jurisdiction of— 19
(i) a commercial service airport; or 20
(ii) a State or locality; or 21
(B) have the potential to cause severe eco-22
nomic damage to— 23
(i) property of a commercial service 24
airport; or 25
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(ii) property under the jurisdiction of 1
a State or locality. 2
(7) U
NMANNED AIRCRAFT , UNMANNED AIR -3
CRAFT SYSTEM.—The terms ‘‘unmanned aircraft’’ 4
and ‘‘unmanned aircraft system’’ have the meanings 5
given those terms in section 44801 of title 49, 6
United States Code. 7
SEC. 3. COUNTER-UAS ACTIVITIES ON COMMERCIAL SERV-8
ICE AIRPORT PROPERTY. 9
(a) C
OUNTER-UAS ACTIVITIES.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 11
provision of law and subject to paragraph (3), with 12
respect to a commercial service airport, the following 13
departments and agencies may, in a manner con-14
sistent with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitu-15
tion of the United States, carry out Counter-UAS 16
activities for purposes of detecting, identifying, and 17
mitigating the threats posed by an unmanned air-18
craft or unmanned aircraft system to the safety or 19
security of the airport: 20
(A) The Department of Homeland Secu-21
rity. 22
(B) The State and local law enforcement 23
agencies in the State in which the airport is lo-24
cated. 25
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(C) The law enforcement agency of the air-1
port. 2
(2) T
ESTING AUTHORITY .—Subject to para-3
graphs (3) and (4), the Secretary of Homeland Se-4
curity, the heads of the State or local law enforce-5
ment agencies of the State in which a commercial 6
service airport is located, or the law enforcement 7
agency of the commercial service airport, may re-8
search, test, provide training on, and evaluate any 9
equipment, including any electronic equipment, to 10
determine the capability and utility of the equipment 11
to carry out Counter-UAS activities to detect, iden-12
tify, and mitigate the threats posed by an unmanned 13
aircraft or unmanned aircraft system to the safety 14
or security of the airport. 15
(3) A
IRPORT OPERATOR CONSENT REQUIRED .— 16
Activities permitted under paragraph (1) or (2) shall 17
only be carried out with the consent of, in consulta-18
tion with, and with the participation of, the airport 19
operator. 20
(4) C
ONSULTATION REQUIREMENT FOR TEST -21
ING OF NON-KINETIC EQUIPMENT .—Any testing of 22
non-kinetic equipment carried out under the author-23
ity of this subsection shall be done in consultation 24
with the Federal Communications Commission and 25
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the National Telecommunications and Information 1
Administration. 2
(b) N
ON-KINETICEQUIPMENT.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Before adopting any stand-4
ard operating procedures within a tactical response 5
plan for use of non-kinetic equipment to carry out 6
a Counter-UAS activity under the authority of this 7
section, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the 8
heads of the State, local, or airport law enforcement 9
agencies of the State in which a commercial service 10
airport is located, shall do the following: 11
(A) Consult with the Federal Communica-12
tions Commission and the National Tele-13
communications and Information Administra-14
tion about the use of non-kinetic equipment to 15
carry out a Counter-UAS activity consistent 16
with the tactical response plan updates required 17
under subsection (c). 18
(B) Jointly, with the Federal Communica-19
tions Commission and the National Tele-20
communications and Information Administra-21
tion, create a process for an authorized des-22
ignee of the commercial service airport to, con-23
sistent with procedures outlined in the tactical 24
response plan (as updated under subsection 25
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(c)), notify the Commission when non-kinetic 1
equipment has been used to carry out a 2
Counter-UAS activity. 3
(2) FCC
AND NTIA DUTIES .—The Federal 4
Communications Commission and the National Tele-5
communications and Information Administration 6
shall— 7
(A) not later than 30 days after the date 8
of enactment of this Act, assign to an office of 9
the Commission and to an office of the Admin-10
istration, respectively, responsibility for car-11
rying out the consultation regarding the use of 12
non-kinetic equipment to carry out Counter- 13
UAS activities required by paragraph (1)(A) 14
and the consultation regarding the testing of 15
non-kinetic equipment required by subsection 16
(a)(4); and 17
(B) not later than 180 days after the re-18
sponsibility described in subparagraph (A) is 19
assigned to each such office— 20
(i) publicly designate an office of the 21
Commission and an office of the Adminis-22
tration, respectively, to receive the notifica-23
tions from commercial service airports re-24
quired under paragraph (1)(B); and 25
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(ii) make publicly available the proc-1
ess for the Commission and the Adminis-2
tration to carry out any follow-up consulta-3
tion, if necessary. 4
(3) N
ONDUPLICATION.—To the greatest extent 5
practicable, the Federal Communications Commis-6
sion and the National Telecommunications and In-7
formation Administration shall coordinate with re-8
spect to the consultations, process creation, follow- 9
up consultations, and other requirements of this sub-10
section and subsection (a)(4) so as to minimize du-11
plication of requirements, efforts, and expenditures. 12
(c) T
ACTICALRESPONSEPLANUPDATES.— 13
(1) T
ASK FORCE.—Not later than 2 years after 14
the date of enactment of this Act, the airport direc-15
tor of each commercial service airport shall convene 16
a task force for purposes of establishing or modi-17
fying the emergency action preparedness plan for 18
the airport to include a tactical response plan for the 19
detection, identification, and mitigation of threats 20
posed by an unmanned aircraft or unmanned air-21
craft system. 22
(2) R
EQUIRED COORDINATION .—Each task 23
force convened under paragraph (1) shall coordinate 24
the establishing or modifying of the airport’s emer-25
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gency action preparedness plan with representatives 1
of the following: 2
(A) The Department of Transportation. 3
(B) The Federal Aviation Administration. 4
(C) The Department of Homeland Secu-5
rity. 6
(D) The State and local law enforcement 7
agencies in the State in which the airport is lo-8
cated. 9
(E) The law enforcement agency of the air-10
port. 11
(F) The covered air carriers operating at 12
the airport. 13
(G) Representatives of general aviation op-14
erators at the airport. 15
(H) Representatives of providers of tele-16
communications and broadband service with a 17
service area that covers the airport property or 18
the navigable airspace necessary to ensure safe-19
ty in the takeoff and landing of aircraft at such 20
airport. 21
(3) D
UTIES.—As part of the inclusion of a tac-22
tical response plan in the emergency action pre-23
paredness plan for a commercial service airport, 24
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each task force convened under paragraph (1) shall 1
do the following: 2
(A) Create and define the various threat 3
levels posed by an unmanned aircraft or un-4
manned aircraft system to the airport. 5
(B) Create the standard operating proce-6
dures for responding to each threat level de-7
fined under subparagraph (A) that include a re-8
quirement to minimize collateral damage. 9
(C) Define and assign to each entity speci-10
fied in paragraph (2), the role and responsibil-11
ities of the entity in carrying out the standard 12
operating procedures for responding to a speci-13
fied threat posed by an unmanned aircraft or 14
unmanned aircraft system to the airport. 15
(D) Designate the applicable State and 16
local law enforcement agencies, or the law en-17
forcement agency of the airport, in coordination 18
with the Department of Homeland Security, as 19
the first responders to any specified threat 20
posed by an unmanned aircraft or unmanned 21
aircraft system to the airport. 22
(E) Narrowly tailor the use of non-kinetic 23
Counter-UAS equipment (if applicable under 24
the standard operating procedures) to only tem-25
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porary activities necessary to mitigate an imme-1
diate threat posed by an unmanned aircraft or 2
unmanned aircraft system to the airport. 3
(F) Incorporate any existing Federal guid-4
ance for updating airport emergency plans for 5
responding to unauthorized unmanned aircraft 6
system operations into 1 tactical response plan 7
for addressing threats posed by an unmanned 8
aircraft or unmanned aircraft system. 9
(4) R
ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in this 10
subsection shall be construed to require multiple tac-11
tical response plans or emergency action prepared-12
ness plans for addressing the threats posed by an 13
unmanned aircraft, an unmanned aircraft system, or 14
unauthorized unmanned aircraft system operations. 15
(d) A
IRPORTIMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ELIGI-16
BILITY.—Notwithstanding section 47102 of title 49, 17
United States Code, the definition of the term ‘‘airport 18
development’’ under that section shall include the pur-19
chase of equipment necessary to carry out Counter-UAS 20
activities at commercial service airports. 21
(e) B
ESTPRACTICES.— 22
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 23
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator 24
of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Ad-25
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ministrator of the Transportation Security Adminis-1
tration acting jointly and in collaboration with air-2
port directors of commercial service airports, shall— 3
(A) publish guidance regarding best prac-4
tices for use of Counter-UAS Activities at com-5
mercial service airports; and 6
(B) make such guidance available to the 7
airport director for each commercial service air-8
port in the United States. 9
(2) A
NNUAL UPDATES .—The guidance issued 10
under this subsection shall be annually updated to 11
incorporate the most recent results and conclusions 12
regarding best practices for the use of Counter-UAS 13
activities at commercial service airports. 14
SEC. 4. COUNTER-UAS ACTIVITIES OFF COMMERCIAL SERV-15
ICE AIRPORT PROPERTY. 16
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-17
sion of law, with respect to a State, the State and local 18
law enforcement agencies in the State may, in a manner 19
consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitu-20
tion of the United States, carry out Counter-UAS activi-21
ties for purposes of detecting, identifying, and mitigating 22
the threats posed by an unmanned aircraft or unmanned 23
aircraft system within the jurisdiction of the State or lo-24
cality. 25
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(b) TESTINGAUTHORITY.— 1
(1) I
N GENERAL.— 2
(A) S
TATES AND LOCALITIES .—Subject to 3
paragraphs (2) and (3), any State or locality of 4
a State may establish testing areas for purposes 5
of researching, testing, providing training on, 6
and evaluating of any equipment, including any 7
electronic equipment, to determine the capa-8
bility and utility of the equipment to carry out 9
Counter-UAS activities to detect, identify, and 10
mitigate the threats posed by an unmanned air-11
craft or unmanned aircraft system within the 12
jurisdiction of the State or locality. 13
(B) P
RIVATE SECTOR ENTITIES .—Subject 14
to paragraphs (2) and (3), any private sector 15
entity may establish testing areas for purposes 16
of researching, testing, providing training on, 17
and evaluating of any equipment, including any 18
electronic equipment, to determine the capa-19
bility and utility of the equipment to carry out 20
Counter-UAS activities to detect, identify, and 21
mitigate the threats posed by an unmanned air-22
craft or unmanned aircraft system, so long as 23
such activities are carried out in accordance 24
with applicable State and local laws. 25
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(2) FAA COOPERATION.—The Federal Aviation 1
Administration shall cooperate with any action by a 2
State, a locality of a State, or a private sector entity 3
to designate airspace to be used for testing under 4
paragraph (1) unless the State, locality, or entity 5
designates an area of airspace that would create a 6
significant safety hazard to airport operations, air 7
navigation facilities, air traffic control systems, or 8
other components of the national airspace system 9
that facilitate the safe and efficient operation of 10
manned civil, commercial, or military aircraft within 11
the United States. 12
(3) C
ONSULTATION REQUIREMENT FOR TEST -13
ING OF NON-KINETIC EQUIPMENT .—Any testing of 14
non-kinetic equipment carried out under the author-15
ity of this subsection shall be done in consultation 16
with the Federal Communications Commission and 17
the National Telecommunications and Information 18
Administration. 19
(c) N
ON-KINETICEQUIPMENT.— 20
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Before adopting any stand-21
ard operating procedures for using any non-kinetic 22
equipment to carry out a Counter-UAS activity 23
under the authority of this section, a State or local 24
law enforcement agency shall do the following: 25
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(A) Consult with the Federal Communica-1
tions Commission and the National Tele-2
communications and Information Administra-3
tion about the use of non-kinetic equipment to 4
carry out a Counter-UAS activity and the 5
standard operating procedures that the State or 6
local law enforcement agency will follow for use 7
of such equipment. 8
(B) Jointly, with the Federal Communica-9
tions Commission and the National Tele-10
communications and Information Administra-11
tion create a process for an authorized designee 12
of the State or local law enforcement agency to 13
notify the Commission when non-kinetic equip-14
ment has been used to carry out a Counter- 15
UAS activity. 16
(2) FCC
AND NTIA DUTIES .—The Federal 17
Communications Commission shall— 18
(A) not later than 30 days after the date 19
of enactment of this Act, assign to an office of 20
the Commission and to an office of the Admin-21
istration, respectively, responsibility for car-22
rying out the consultation regarding the use of 23
non-kinetic equipment to carry out Counter- 24
UAS activities required under paragraph (1)(A) 25
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and the consultation regarding the testing of 1
non-kinetic equipment required by subsection 2
(b)(3); and 3
(B) not later than 180 days after the re-4
sponsibility described in subparagraph (A) is 5
assigned to each such office— 6
(i) publicly designate an office of the 7
Commission and an office of the Adminis-8
tration, respectively, to receive the notifica-9
tions from State or local law enforcement 10
agencies required under paragraph (1)(B); 11
and 12
(ii) make publicly available the proc-13
ess for the Commission and the Adminis-14
tration to carry out any follow-up consulta-15
tion, if necessary. 16
(3) N
ONDUPLICATION.—To the greatest extent 17
practicable, the Federal Communications Commis-18
sion and the National Telecommunications and In-19
formation Administration shall coordinate with re-20
spect to the consultations, process creation, follow- 21
up consultations, and other requirements of this sub-22
section and subsection (a)(4) so as to minimize du-23
plication of requirements, efforts, and expenditures. 24
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(d) COORDINATIONWITH THEFAA.—Section 376 of 1
the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (49 U.S.C. 44802 2
note) is amended— 3
(1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the 4
following: 5
‘‘(4) Permit a process for an applicable State or 6
local law enforcement agency to notify and coordi-7
nate with the Federal Aviation Administration on 8
actions being taken by the State or local law en-9
forcement agency to exercise the Counter-UAS ac-10
tivities authority established under section 4(a) of 11
the SHIELD U Act.’’; and 12
(2) in subsection (c)— 13
(A) in paragraph (3)(G), by striking ‘‘and’’ 14
after the semicolon; 15
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking the pe-16
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 17
(C) by adding at the end the following: 18
‘‘(5) establish a process that allows for collabo-19
ration and coordination between the Federal Avia-20
tion Administration and the law enforcement of a 21
State or local government with respect to the use of 22
the Counter-UAS activities authority established 23
under section 4(a) of the SHIELD U Act.’’. 24
(e) I
NTERIMNOTIFICATIONPLAN.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 1
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator 2
of the Federal Aviation Administration shall estab-3
lish a process under which— 4
(A) the law enforcement agency of a State 5
or local government may notify the Adminis-6
trator of an active threat posed by an un-7
manned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system 8
within the jurisdiction of the State or local law 9
enforcement agency and the intent of the agen-10
cy to facilitate Counter-UAS activities; 11
(B) the Administrator, based on notice 12
made pursuant to subparagraph (A), shall issue 13
immediate warnings to operators of both 14
manned and unmanned aircraft operating with-15
in the area of airspace where the law enforce-16
ment agency’s Counter-UAS activities are tak-17
ing place; and 18
(C) the Administrator and the State and 19
local law enforcement agency notify UAS opera-20
tors and manned operators in the area that an 21
area of airspace is clear once the State and 22
local law enforcement have concluded the 23
Counter-UAS activities to mitigate the threat. 24
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(2) SUNSET.—The process established under 1
paragraph (1) shall terminate on the date on which 2
the unmanned aircraft systems traffic management 3
system required under section 376 of the FAA Re-4
authorization Act of 2018 (49 U.S.C. 44802 note) 5
is fully implemented. 6
SEC. 5. AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS TO PRO-7
TECT FACILITIES FROM UNMANNED AIR-8
CRAFT. 9
(a) A
UTHORITY.—The following Federal departments 10
are authorized to enter into contracts to carry out the fol-11
lowing authorities: 12
(1) The Department of Defense for the purpose 13
of carrying out activities under section 130i of title 14
10, United States Code. 15
(2) The Department of Homeland Security for 16
the purpose of carrying out activities under section 17
210G of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 18
U.S.C. 124n). 19
(3) The Department of Justice for the purpose 20
of carrying out activities under section 210G of the 21
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124n). 22
(4) The Department of Energy for the purpose 23
of carrying out activities under section 4510 of the 24
Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2661). 25
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(b) FEDERALACQUISITIONREGULATION.—Not later 1
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 2
the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council shall amend 3
the Federal Acquisition Regulation to implement the au-4
thority provided under subsection (a). 5
(c) A
NNUALPUBLICATION OFRECOMMENDED VEN-6
DORS ANDEQUIPMENT.— 7
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 8
the date of enactment of this Act, and annually 9
thereafter, the Director of the Office of Management 10
and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of 11
Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the 12
Attorney General, the Secretary of Energy, the Sec-13
retary of Transportation, and the heads of such 14
other Federal departments or agencies as deter-15
mined appropriate by the Director of the Office of 16
Management and Budget, shall publish and make 17
available to State and local governments the fol-18
lowing: 19
(A) A list of vendors that are eligible 20
under the Federal Acquisition Regulation to 21
enter into contracts with the Federal Govern-22
ment to carry out Counter-UAS activities. 23
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(B) A list of Counter-UAS equipment that 1
is recommended by the Federal Government to 2
carry out Counter-UAS activities. 3
(2) A
NNUAL RISK ASSESSMENT .—The Director 4
of the Office of Management and Budget, in con-5
sultation with the heads of the applicable Federal 6
departments and agencies, shall review and reassess 7
the vendors and equipment specified on the lists re-8
quired to be published and made available under 9
paragraph (1) based on a risk assessment that is 10
jointly considered by the applicable agencies as part 11
of each annual update of such lists. 12
SEC. 6. FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING. 13
Section 884(c) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 14
(6 U.S.C. 464(c)) is amended— 15
(1) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 16
end; 17
(2) by redesignating paragraph (10) as para-18
graph (11); and 19
(3) by inserting after paragraph (9) the fol-20
lowing: 21
‘‘(10) develop and implement homeland security 22
and law enforcement training curricula related to 23
the use of Counter-UAS activities (as defined in sec-24
tion 2 of the SHIELD U Act) to protect against a 25
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threat from an unmanned aircraft or unmanned air-1
craft system (as such terms are defined in section 2
210G), which shall— 3
‘‘(A) include— 4
‘‘(i) training on the use of both ki-5
netic and non-kinetic equipment; 6
‘‘(ii) training on the tactics used to 7
detect, identify, and mitigate a threat from 8
an unmanned aircraft or unmanned air-9
craft system; and 10
‘‘(iii) such other curricula or training 11
the Director believes necessary; and 12
‘‘(B) be made available to Federal, State, 13
local, Tribal, and territorial law enforcement 14
and security agencies and private sector secu-15
rity agencies; and’’. 16
SEC. 7. AUTHORIZED USE OF JAMMING TECHNOLOGY. 17
Title III of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 18
U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended— 19
(1) in section 301 (47 U.S.C. 301)— 20
(A) by striking ‘‘It is’’ and inserting the 21
following: 22
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—It is’’; and 23
(B) by adding at the end the following: 24
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‘‘(b) EXCEPTION FOR ANUNMANNEDAIRCRAFT AND 1
U
NMANNEDAIRCRAFTSYSTEM.— 2
‘‘(1) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 3
‘‘(A) the term ‘covered equipment’ means 4
equipment that is used to— 5
‘‘(i) intercept or otherwise access a 6
wire communication, an oral communica-7
tion, an electronic communication, or a 8
radio communication used to control an 9
unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft 10
system; and 11
‘‘(ii) disrupt control of an unmanned 12
aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, 13
without prior consent, including by dis-14
abling the unmanned aircraft or unmanned 15
aircraft system by intercepting, interfering, 16
or causing interference with wire, oral, 17
electronic, or radio communications that 18
are used to control the unmanned aircraft 19
or unmanned aircraft system; and 20
‘‘(B) the terms ‘unmanned aircraft’ and 21
‘unmanned aircraft system’ have the meanings 22
given those terms in section 44801 of title 49, 23
United States Code. 24
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‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not 1
apply with respect to actions taken by State or local 2
law enforcement or the law enforcement agency of a 3
commercial service airport using covered equipment 4
in consultation with the Commission to detect, iden-5
tify, or mitigate a threat posed by an unmanned air-6
craft or unmanned aircraft system.’’; 7
(2) in section 302 (47 U.S.C. 302a), by adding 8
at the end the following: 9
‘‘(g) E
XCEPTION FOR ANUNMANNEDAIRCRAFT AND 10
U
NMANNEDAIRCRAFTSYSTEM.— 11
‘‘(1) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 12
terms ‘covered equipment’, ‘unmanned aircraft’, and 13
‘unmanned aircraft system’ have the meanings given 14
those terms in section 301. 15
‘‘(2) E
XCEPTION.—The provisions of this sec-16
tion shall not apply with respect to actions taken by 17
State or local law enforcement or the law enforce-18
ment agency of a commercial service airport using 19
covered equipment in consultation with the Commis-20
sion to detect, identify, or mitigate a threat posed by 21
an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft sys-22
tem.’’; and 23
(3) in section 333 (47 U.S.C. 333)— 24
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(A) by striking ‘‘No person’’ and inserting 1
the following: 2
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—No person’’; and 3
(B) by adding at the end the following: 4
‘‘(b) E
XCEPTION FOR ANUNMANNEDAIRCRAFT AND 5
U
NMANNEDAIRCRAFTSYSTEM.— 6
‘‘(1) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 7
terms ‘covered equipment’, ‘unmanned aircraft’, and 8
‘unmanned aircraft system’ have the meanings given 9
those terms in section 301(b). 10
‘‘(2) E
XCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not 11
apply with respect to actions taken by State or local 12
law enforcement or the law enforcement agency of a 13
commercial service airport using covered equipment 14
in consultation with the Commission to detect, iden-15
tify, or mitigate a threat posed by an unmanned air-16
craft or unmanned aircraft system.’’. 17
SEC. 8. NO ABROGATION OF TRADITIONAL POLICE POW-18
ERS. 19
Nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this 20
Act shall be construed to abrogate the inherent authority 21
of a State government or subdivision thereof from using 22
their traditional police powers, including (but not limited 23
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to) the authority to counter an imminent threat to public 1
health or safety. 2
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