TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed his support for a bill banning what is called “nonsense” before hitting the Senate floor on Thursday.
SB-56, after sponsors pointed out conspiracy theory while defending the committee’s bill, calls it the so-called “Chemtrails Bill” and prohibits injecting, ejecting, or dispersing by any means in the atmosphere within the boundary that affects this state, in order to affect the state of chemical compounds, substances, or devices, by any means, affect the climate of the SUN.
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“Many of our senators have been regularly complained about these condensation trajectories. “There’s a lot of skepticism.”
The bill also requires the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to set up a system that will allow residents to report “substantiated geo-engineering activities” and direct FDEP to investigate those claims.
Desantis said he was “hindered” by lawmakers who made changes to their version on Wednesday while he supported the bill, cutting bills from 10 to 1 page.
“I support this law, but the Florida House of Representatives will obstruct Senator Garcia’s law and will actually codify geography engineering and weather correction practices,” DeSantis said in a video posted to X.
The House version of the bill does not ban the practice of weather corrections completely without a license. There will also be a sudden penalty.
The Senate version imposes a drastic ban, seeking that offenders will be charged with three felony charges and face a fine of up to $100,000. The House version places a second misdemeanor and a fine of up to $10,000 on anyone without a license or lying to the application.
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“People have a lot of weird ideas. It allows us to put things in the atmosphere to block the sun and save us from climate change,” DeSantis said. “We don’t play that game in Florida.”
If passed, the law will take effect on July 1st.
