By Illinois News Network
SPRINGFIELD – A measure that creates a task force to oversee the use of private and public drones passed the House and is now headed back to the Senate to find common ground on several different amendments.
Senate Bill 44 from Democratic State Sen. Julie Morrison, R-Deerfield, as introduced would have made the use unmanned aerial vehicles for hunting, including using the so-called drones to fish, illegal. The measure was amended in the Senate before passage to create the Unmanned Aerial System Oversight Task Force in an effort to evaluate and provide recommendations on the safe and lawful use of drones.
By the time it passed the House there were three different amendments that allow the governor to appoint members of the taskforce and to have the state’s Department of Transportation provide administrative support. The amended measure passed the House unanimously but heads back to the Senate for concurrence.
