SSB 1148 (LSB 2540XC (4) 91)

SENATE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE BILL BY CHAIRPERSON BOUSSELOT)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to critical infrastructure sabotage, and making penalties applicable.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 716.11, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   c.  A telecommunications or service, information service, or cable service as defined in 47 U.S.C. §153, or a broadband generation, transmission, or delivery system.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to critical infrastructure sabotage.
   The bill provides that “critical infrastructure” includes a telecommunications service, information service, or cable service as defined in 47 U.S.C. §153.
   A person who, overtly, intentionally, and without authorization, causes or has the means to cause, and in substantial furtherance of causing, a substantial and widespread interruption or impairment of a fundamental service rendered by critical infrastructure commits critical infrastructure sabotage, a class “B” felony, and is subject to confinement for no more than 25 years and a fine of not less than $85,000 nor more than $100,000.