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1                   STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2          1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 1331               By: Humphrey

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6                               AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to crimes and punishments; amending

    21 O.S. 2021, Section 1792, which relates to trespass

8   to critical infrastructure facilities; expanding

    scope of certain prohibited act; defining term;

9   modifying definition; and providing an effective

    date.

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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

14  SECTION 1.      AMENDATORY  21 O.S. 2021, Section 1792, is

15 amended to read as follows:

16  Section 1792. A. Any person who shall willfully trespass or,

17 enter, or loiter upon property containing a critical infrastructure

18 facility without permission by the owner of the property or lawful

19 occupant thereof shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor

20 punishable by a fine of not less more than One Thousand Dollars

21 ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of six

22 (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. If it is

23 determined the intent of the trespasser is to willfully damage,

24 destroy, vandalize, deface, tamper with equipment, or impede or

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1 inhibit operations of the facility, the person shall, upon

2 conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not less

3 more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by imprisonment in

4 the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term of one (1)

5 year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. As used in this

6 subsection, "loiter" means standing or waiting around idly or

7 without apparent or rational purpose.

8   B. Any person who shall willfully damage, destroy, vandalize,

9 deface or tamper with equipment in a critical infrastructure

10 facility shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by

11 a fine of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), or by

12 imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a

13 term of not more than ten (10) years, or by both such fine and

14 imprisonment.

15  C. If an organization is found to be a conspirator with persons

16 who are found to have committed any of the crimes described in

17 subsection A or B of this section, the conspiring organization shall

18 be punished by a fine that is ten times the amount of said fine

19 authorized by the appropriate provision of this section.

20  D. As used in this section, "critical infrastructure facility"

21 means:

22  1. One of the following, if completely enclosed by a fence or

23 other physical barrier that is obviously designed to exclude

24 intruders, or if clearly marked with a sign or signs that are posted

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1 on the property that are reasonably likely to come to the attention

2 of intruders and indicate that entry is forbidden without site

3 authorization:

4   a. a petroleum or alumina refinery,

5   b. an electrical power generating facility, substation,

6   switching station, electrical control center or

7   electric power lines and associated equipment

8   infrastructure,

9   c. a chemical, polymer or rubber manufacturing facility,

10  d. a water intake structure, water treatment facility,

11  wastewater treatment plant or pump station,

12  e. a natural gas compressor station,

13  f. a liquid natural gas terminal or storage facility,

14  g. a telecommunications central switching office,

15  h. wireless telecommunications infrastructure, including

16  cell towers, telephone poles and lines, including

17  fiber-optic lines,

18  i. a port, railroad switching yard, railroad tracks,

19  trucking terminal or other freight transportation

20  facility,

21  j. a gas processing plant, including a plant used in the

22  processing, treatment or fractionation of natural gas

23  or natural gas liquids,

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1   k. a transmission facility used by a federally licensed

2   radio or television station,

3   l. a steelmaking facility that uses an electric arc

4   furnace to make steel,

5   m. a facility identified and regulated by the United

6   States Department of Homeland Security Chemical

7   Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program,

8   n. a dam that is regulated by the state or federal

9   government,

10  o. a natural gas distribution utility facility including,

11  but not limited to, pipeline interconnections, a city

12  gate or town border station, metering station,

13  aboveground piping, a regulator station and a natural

14  gas storage facility, or

15  p. a crude oil or refined products storage and

16  distribution facility including, but not limited to,

17  valve sites, pipeline interconnections, pump station,

18  metering station, below or aboveground pipeline or

19  piping and truck loading or offloading facility; or

20  2. Any aboveground portion of an oil, gas, hazardous liquid or

21 chemical pipeline, tank, railroad facility or other storage facility

22 that is enclosed by a fence, other physical barrier or is clearly

23 marked with signs prohibiting trespassing, that are obviously

24 designed to exclude intruders;

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1   3. Any prison facility; or

2   4. Any county-owned property including, but not limited to,

3 courthouses and detention centers.

4   SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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