SB 683 — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in burglary and other criminal intrusion, providing for offenses relating to critical infrastructure facilities; and imposing penalties.

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                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                          SENATE BILL
                          No. 683
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY YAW, BARTOLOTTA, ROTHMAN, FONTANA, BROWN, CULVER,
        LANGERHOLC, PENNYCUICK, MARTIN, STEFANO, HUTCHINSON,
        LAUGHLIN, J. WARD, MILLER AND DUSH, APRIL 28, 2025

     REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, APRIL 28, 2025


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in burglary and other criminal
 3      intrusion, providing for offenses relating to critical
 4      infrastructure facilities; and imposing penalties.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.      Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 8   Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 9   § 3506.    Offenses relating to critical infrastructure
10                   facilities.
11      (a)    Trespass.--
12             (1)   A person commits a misdemeanor of the third degree
13      if the person willfully and knowingly trespasses or enters
14      property containing a critical infrastructure facility
15      without permission by the owner of the property or lawful
16      occupant.
17             (2)   A person convicted of violating paragraph (1) shall
18      be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $500 or to
 1    imprisonment for not less than 30 days nor more than one
 2    year, or both.
 3          (3)   Notwithstanding section 903 (relating to criminal
 4    conspiracy), a person commits a misdemeanor of the third
 5    degree if the person conspires with another person to commit
 6    the offense of trespass against a critical infrastructure
 7    facility in violation of this section.
 8          (4)   Notwithstanding section 905 (relating to grading of
 9    criminal attempt, solicitation and conspiracy), a person
10    convicted of violating paragraph (3) shall be sentenced to
11    pay a fine of not less than $5,000.
12          (5)   A person commits a felony of the third degree if the
13    person willfully and knowingly trespasses or enters property
14    containing a critical infrastructure facility without
15    permission by the owner of the property or lawful occupant
16    with the intent to willfully damage, destroy, vandalize,
17    deface, tamper with equipment or impede or inhibit operations
18    of the critical infrastructure facility.
19          (6)   A person convicted of violating paragraph (5) shall
20    be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $1,000 or to
21    imprisonment in a State correctional facility for not less
22    than one year nor more than three years, or both.
23    (b)   Vandalism.--
24          (1)   A person commits a felony of the third degree if the
25    person:
26                (i)    willfully damages, destroys, vandalizes, defaces
27          or tampers with equipment in a critical infrastructure
28          facility; or
29                (ii)   notwithstanding section 903, conspires with
30          another person to willfully damage, destroy, vandalize,

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 1            deface or tamper with equipment in a critical
 2            infrastructure facility.
 3            (2)   Grading for offenses under paragraph (1) shall be as
 4      follows:
 5                  (i)    A person convicted of violating paragraph (1)(i)
 6            shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $2,000
 7            or to imprisonment in a State correctional facility for
 8            not less than one year nor more than five years, or both.
 9                  (ii)   Notwithstanding section 905, a person convicted
10            of violating paragraph (1)(ii) shall be sentenced to pay
11            a fine of not less than $10,000.
12      (c)   Civil liability.--An owner of a critical infrastructure
13   facility may file a cause of action in a court of competent
14   jurisdiction against a person who is arrested for or convicted
15   of an offense under this section for damages to personal or real
16   property, including damages to pipeline construction and pigging
17   stations.
18      (d)   Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
19   words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
20   subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
21      "Critical infrastructure facility."       Systems and assets,
22   whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States or
23   the Commonwealth that the incapacity or destruction of the
24   systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security,
25   national economic security, State economic security, national
26   public health or safety, State public health or safety or any
27   combination of those matters, whether the systems or assets are
28   in operation or are under construction. The term includes the
29   following, if completely enclosed by a fence or other physical
30   barrier that is obviously designed to exclude intruders or if

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 1   clearly marked with a sign that is posted on the property that
 2   is reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders and
 3   indicates that entry is forbidden without site authorization:
 4          (1)     A petroleum or alumina refinery.
 5          (2)     An electrical power generating facility, substation,
 6      switching station, electrical control center or electric
 7      power lines and associated equipment infrastructure.
 8          (3)     A chemical, polymer or rubber manufacturing
 9      facility.
10          (4)     A water intake structure, water treatment facility,
11      wastewater treatment plant, pump station or finished water
12      storage facility.
13          (5)     A natural gas compressor station.
14          (6)     A liquid natural gas terminal or storage facility.
15          (7)     Wireline and wireless telecommunications
16      infrastructure.
17          (8)     A port, railroad switching yard, trucking terminal
18      or other freight transportation facility.
19          (9)     A gas processing plant, including a plant used in
20      the processing, treatment or fractionation of natural gas or
21      natural gas liquids.
22          (10)     A transmission facility used by a federally
23      licensed radio or television station.
24          (11)     A steelmaking facility that uses an electric arc
25      furnace to make steel.
26          (12)     A facility identified and regulated by the United
27      States Department of Homeland Security Chemical Facility
28      Anti-Terrorism Standards program.
29          (13)     A dam that is regulated by the Federal or State
30      Government.

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 1        (14)     A natural gas distribution utility facility,
 2    including pipeline interconnections, a city gate or town
 3    border station, metering station, below or above-ground
 4    pipeline or piping and truck loading or offloading facility,
 5    a natural gas storage facility, a natural gas transmission
 6    facility or a natural gas utility distribution facility.
 7        (15)     A crude oil or refined products storage and
 8    distribution facility, including valve sites, pipeline
 9    interconnections, pump station, metering station, below or
10    above-ground pipeline or piping and truck loading or
11    offloading facility.
12        (16)     An above-ground portion of an oil, gas, hazardous
13    liquid or chemical pipeline, tank or other storage facility.
14        (17)     Natural gas well pads and production facilities.
15        (18)     A broadband fiber cable facility.
16    Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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