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S 1017 · in committee · major

Safe and Secure Transportation of American Energy Act

What this bill does

  • The bill increases criminal penalties for damaging, vandalizing, tampering with, or disrupting interstate gas and hazardous liquid pipelines.
  • People who knowingly and willfully interfere with pipeline facilities face fines and up to 20 years in prison, or life if death results.
  • The law takes effect upon enactment and applies to future violations of pipeline facility interference.

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    How should lawmakers balance protecting critical energy infrastructure from sabotage with protecting citizens' rights to protest pipeline projects?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists that current penalties for pipeline interference are insufficient to deter the conduct this bill targets?

  3. 03

    How might a 20-year maximum sentence for pipeline tampering compare in severity to penalties for damaging other critical infrastructure like electrical grids or water systems?

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Tim Sheehy

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Introduced 2025-03-13

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-03-13 · senate · IntroReferral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

  2. 2025-03-13 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

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