[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1083 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1083

  To amend the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to establish 
  prohibitions to prevent the use of an unmanned aircraft system as a 
 weapon while operating in the national airspace system, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2013

Mr. Burgess (for himself and Mr. Gibson) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to establish 
  prohibitions to prevent the use of an unmanned aircraft system as a 
 weapon while operating in the national airspace system, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Armed Drones Act of 2013'' or the 
``NADA Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle B of title III of the FAA Modernization 
and Reform Act of 2012 (126 Stat. 72; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 337. PROHIBITIONS TO PREVENT USE OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM AS 
              A WEAPON WHILE OPERATING IN NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM.

    ``(a) Prohibitions.--The Secretary of Transportation may not 
authorize a person to operate an unmanned aircraft system in the 
national airspace system for the purpose, in whole or in part, of using 
the unmanned aircraft system as a weapon or to deliver a weapon against 
a person or property.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions 
apply:
            ``(1) Person.--The term `person' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 40102(a) of title 49, United States Code.
            ``(2) Weapon.--The term `weapon' includes lethal and 
        nonlethal weapons.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents contained in section 
1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
section 336 the following:

``Sec. 337. Prohibitions to prevent use of unmanned aircraft systems as 
                            weapons while operating in national 
                            airspace system.''.
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