Official Summaries

Safe and Secure Transportation of American Energy Act

This bill expands the types of activities that are subject to criminal penalties related to damaging or destroying an interstate gas or hazardous liquid pipeline facility.

Under current law, a person who knowingly and willfully damages or destroys a pipeline facility is subject to criminal penalties, including a fine, a prison term of up to 20 years, or both. If a death results from the offense, the person may be imprisoned for any term of years or life. 

Under the bill, these criminal penalties also apply to a person who knowingly and willfully

• vandalizes,
• tampers with, or
• disrupts or prevents the operation or construction of the facility.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1017 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1017

 To amend title 49, United States Code, to modify a provision relating 
 to criminal penalties for damaging or destroying pipeline facilities, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2025

Mr. Sheehy (for himself, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Budd, Mrs. Capito, 
 Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Young, and Mrs. Fischer) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 49, United States Code, to modify a provision relating 
 to criminal penalties for damaging or destroying pipeline facilities, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe and Secure Transportation of 
American Energy Act''.

SEC. 2. CRIMINAL PENALTIES.

    Section 60123(b) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``damaging or destroying'' and inserting ``damaging, 
destroying, vandalizing, tampering with, disrupting the operation or 
construction of, or preventing the operation or construction of''.
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