My $0.02 worth…
Get HAI and maybe AOPA involved – that’s if they aren’t already. Even if the operator is not an HAI member, the implications of a bill like this for the industry as a whole are ominous at best, so I doubt HAI would sit back and let this just happen. They have deeper pockets and more savvy in this kind of fight than any operator.
If it comes to litigation / appeal, it would seem hard for the protagonists of this bill to pass it off as anything but a hatchet job: originating in May, to take effect on July 1st? Any court which would review this piece of legislation cannot but come to the conclusion that it must be of malicious intent, and probably unconstitutional.