Alabama legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Alabama HB290: Crimes and offenses; critical infrastructure facilities, further provided; crimes of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastruc
Status: Failed, May 6, 2025
Crimes and offenses; critical infrastructure facilities, further provided; crimes of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility and criminal tampering, further provided
What the bill says
An act Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section 13A-7-4.3, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2024-395, 2024 Regular Session, and Sections 13A-7-25 and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 HB290 INTRODUCED Page 2 2024-395, 2024 Regular Session, and Sections 13A-7-25 and 13A-7-26, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the definition of "critical infrastructure facility;" to further provide for the crime of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility…
From the introduced text:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section 13A-7-4.3, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2024-395, 2024 Regular Session, and Sections 13A-7-25 and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 HB290 INTRODUCED Page 2 2024-395, 2024 Regular Session, and Sections 13A-7-25 and 13A-7-26, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the definition of "critical infrastructure facility;" to further provide for the crime of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility; and to further provide for the crimes of criminal tampering in the first and second degrees. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. Section 13A-7-4.3, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2024-395, 2024 Regular Session, and Sections 13A-7-25 and 13A-7-26, Code of Alabama 1975, are amended to read as follows: "§13A-7-4.3 (a) For the purposes of this section, the following wordsterms have the following meanings: (1) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. A system or asset, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of the system or asset would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health, or national public safety. (2) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE …