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DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate

Avatar for Seth Kurkowski Seth Kurkowski | Jun 14 2024 - 2:57 pm PT
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In a vote along party lines, the National Defense Authorization Act,
a must-pass bill that funds the Department of Defense for the next
fiscal year, was passed by the House of Representatives. Within that
bill is a small section that bans DJI from using the FCC frequencies.

After two days of debating and voting on amendments to the 2025 NDAA,
the House voted and passed the bill that includes a ban on DJI drone
usage in the United States.

The NDAA funds all elements of the DoD and national defense
operations of the Department of Energy, and every year a new version
of this becomes law for the past six decades. What was once a bill
one page long with only three sections, is now over 1000 pages with
even more sections, many of which don't have anything to do with
funding the military.

One of these sections, H.R. 2864, or the Countering CCP Drones Act,
was added to the bill and can be found under Section 1722. For those
who are just hearing about this for the first time, it would remove
DJI's ability to get approval from the FCC, banning any future drones
from being imported and possibly grounding current drones.

The bill as it stands does not provide any compensation to those that
could be affected by this ban, if it is retroactive.

The NDAA had wide bipartisan support until Thursday when House
Republicans tacked on partisan amendments and the Left whipped its
members to vote against it. So when the House came to vote on the
NDAA Friday, the vote was pretty much along party lines.

However, this should not be taken as Democrats being against the ban,
anti-China legislation is popular on both sides of the aisle.

The bill has already started working its way through the Senate. If
it passes the Senate then it will go to the President's desk for
signature into law.

After that, the ball is in DJI and the public's hands if any legal
challenges are attempted.

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