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1	1	89R4872 JRR-D
2	2	By: Luther H.B. No. 1947
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to civil and criminal liability for engaging in certain
10	10	conduct involving a critical infrastructure facility; creating
11	11	criminal offenses.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Section 424.001, Government Code, is amended to
14	14	read as follows:
15	15	Sec. 424.001. DEFINITIONS [DEFINITION]. In this
16	16	chapter:
17	17	(1) "Critical [, "critical] infrastructure facility"
18	18	has the meaning assigned by Section 423.0045(a)(1-a) and also
19	19	includes:
20	20	(A) [(1)] any pipeline transporting oil or gas or
21	21	the products or constituents of oil or gas;
22	22	(B) [(2)] a public or private airport depicted in
23	23	any current aeronautical chart published by the Federal Aviation
24	24	Administration;
25	25	(C) [(3)] a military installation owned or
26	26	operated by or for the federal government, this state, or another
27	27	governmental entity;
28	28	(D) a semiconductor wafer manufacturing
29	29	facility; and
30	30	(E) [(4)] a facility or pipeline described by
31	31	this section that is under construction and all equipment and
32	32	appurtenances used during that construction.
33	33	(2) "Semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility"
34	34	means a manufacturing facility that includes any of the following
35	35	processes with respect to semiconductor production:
36	36	(A) growing single-crystal ingots or boules;
37	37	(B) wafer slicing;
38	38	(C) etching and polishing;
39	39	(D) bonding;
40	40	(E) cleaning;
41	41	(F) epitaxial deposition; or
42	42	(G) metrology.
43	43	SECTION 2. Section 424.051(a), Government Code, is amended
44	44	to read as follows:
45	45	(a) A person commits an offense if, without the effective
46	46	consent of the owner, the person:
47	47	(1) enters or remains on or in a critical
48	48	infrastructure facility and intentionally or knowingly damages or
49	49	destroys the facility; or
50	50	(2) intentionally or knowingly disturbs the physical
51	51	environment, including increasing ground or subterranean vibration
52	52	levels, within 15 miles of a critical infrastructure facility and
53	53	the disturbance damages or destroys the facility.
54	54	SECTION 3. Section 424.052(a), Government Code, is amended
55	55	to read as follows:
56	56	(a) A person commits an offense if, without the effective
57	57	consent of the owner, the person:
58	58	(1) enters or remains on or in a critical
59	59	infrastructure facility and intentionally or knowingly impairs or
60	60	interrupts the operation of the facility; or
61	61	(2) intentionally or knowingly disturbs the physical
62	62	environment, including increasing ground or subterranean vibration
63	63	levels, within 15 miles of a critical infrastructure facility and
64	64	the disturbance impairs or interrupts the operation of the
65	65	facility.
66	66	SECTION 4. Section 424.053(a), Government Code, is amended
67	67	to read as follows:
68	68	(a) A person commits an offense if, without the effective
69	69	consent of the owner, the person:
70	70	(1) enters or remains on or in a critical
71	71	infrastructure facility with the intent to damage or destroy the
72	72	facility; or
73	73	(2) disturbs the physical environment, including
74	74	increasing ground or subterranean vibration levels, within 15 miles
75	75	of a critical infrastructure facility with the intent to damage or
76	76	destroy the facility.
77	77	SECTION 5. Section 424.054(a), Government Code, is amended
78	78	to read as follows:
79	79	(a) A person commits an offense if, without the effective
80	80	consent of the owner, the person:
81	81	(1) enters or remains on or in a critical
82	82	infrastructure facility with the intent to impair or interrupt the
83	83	operation of the facility; or
84	84	(2) disturbs the physical environment, including
85	85	increasing ground or subterranean vibration levels, within 15 miles
86	86	of a critical infrastructure facility with the intent to impair or
87	87	interrupt the operation of the facility.
88	88	SECTION 6. Section 424.055, Government Code, is amended to
89	89	read as follows:
90	90	Sec. 424.055. PUNISHMENT FOR CORPORATIONS AND
91	91	ASSOCIATIONS. Notwithstanding Section 12.51, Penal Code, a court
92	92	shall sentence a corporation or association adjudged guilty of an
93	93	offense under this subchapter to pay a fine not to exceed $1 billion
94	94	[$500,000].
95	95	SECTION 7. Section 424.102, Government Code, is amended to
96	96	read as follows:
97	97	Sec. 424.102. CERTAIN ADDITIONAL LIABILITY. In addition to
98	98	any liability under Section 424.101, an organization that, acting
99	99	through an officer, director, or other person serving in a
100	100	managerial capacity, knowingly compensates a person for engaging in
101	101	conduct occurring on the premises of a critical infrastructure
102	102	facility, or for disturbing the physical environment within 15
103	103	miles of a critical infrastructure facility, is liable to the
104	104	property owner, as provided by this subchapter, for damages arising
105	105	from the conduct if the conduct constituted an offense under
106	106	Section 424.051, 424.052, 424.053, or 424.054.
107	107	SECTION 8. (a) The changes in law made by this Act to
108	108	Chapter 424, Government Code, apply only to an offense committed on
109	109	or after the effective date of this Act. An offense committed
110	110	before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
111	111	effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is
112	112	continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this
113	113	subsection, an offense was committed before the effective date of
114	114	this Act if any element of the offense was committed before that
115	115	date.
116	116	(b) The changes in law made by this Act to Chapter 424,
117	117	Government Code, apply only to a cause of action that accrues on or
118	118	after the effective date of this Act. A cause of action that
119	119	accrues before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
120	120	in effect on the date the cause of action accrued, and the former
121	121	law is continued in effect for that purpose.
122	122	SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.