A bill to prohibit trespassing on critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce to commit a criminal offense.

Bill: 114-s-902
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2015-04-13
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property

Historic sites and heritage areas

Infrastructure development

Monuments and memorials
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly going on any critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce to commit a criminal offense.</p> <p>Defines "critical infrastructure"&nbsp;as a vital physical system or asset, including a national monument, the incapacity or destruction of which would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, or national public health or safety.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 902 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 13, 2015 Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To prohibit trespassing on critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce to commit a criminal offense.

1. Trespassing on critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce to commit crime (a) In general Chapter 65 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 1370. Trespassing on critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce to commit crime (a) Definition In this section, the term critical infrastructure — (1) means physical systems and assets so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters; and (2) includes a landmark, structure, or other object— (A) declared to be a national monument under section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906 (commonly known as the Antiquities Act of 1906 ) ( 16 U.S.C. 431 ); or (B) established as a national monument by an Act of Congress. (b) Prohibition It shall be unlawful to knowingly go on any critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce, with intent to commit a criminal offense. (c) Penalty Any person who violates subsection (b) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both. . (b) Technical and conforming amendment The table of sections for chapter 65 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 1370. Trespassing on critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce to commit crime. .