| 1 | | - | House File 879 - Enrolled House File 879 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, a wireless service as defined in section 8C.2, or a broadband generation, transmission, or delivery system. ______________________________ PAT GRASSLEY Speaker of the House ______________________________ AMY SINCLAIR President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 879, Ninety-first General Assembly. ______________________________ MEGHAN NELSON Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2025 ______________________________ KIM REYNOLDS Governor |
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| 3 | + | H.F. 879 Section 1. Section 716.11, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 1 2025, is amended to read as follows: 2 c. A telecommunications or service, information service, 3 or cable service as defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, a wireless 4 service as defined in section 8C.2, or a broadband generation, 5 transmission, or delivery system. 6 EXPLANATION 7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 8 the explanations substance by the members of the general assembly. 9 This bill relates to critical infrastructure sabotage. 10 The bill provides that critical infrastructure includes 11 a telecommunications service, information service, or cable 12 service as defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, or a wireless service as 13 defined in Code section 8C.2. 14 A person who, overtly, intentionally, and without 15 authorization, causes or has the means to cause, and in 16 substantial furtherance of causing, a substantial and 17 widespread interruption or impairment of a fundamental 18 service rendered by critical infrastructure commits critical 19 infrastructure sabotage, a class B felony, and is subject to 20 confinement for no more than 25 years and a fine of not less 21 than $85,000 nor more than $100,000. 22 -1- LSB 2540HV (2) 91 as/js 1/ 1 |
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