HR 3278 · In committee · last action May 8, 2025
<p><strong>Protecting Critical Infrastructure Act</strong></p><p>This bill increases federal criminal penalties for computer fraud and abuse offenses that involve critical infrastructure. The term<em> critical infrastructure</em> means systems and assets, physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health and safety, or any combination of those matters.</p><p>Specifically, the bill imposes a fine, a mandatory minimum prison term of 30 years, or both for a computer fraud or abuse offense that involves critical infrastructure.</p><p>Additionally, the bill directs the President to impose asset- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that access or attempt to access critical infrastructure.</p>
Pat Fallon (R-TX)
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<p><strong>Protecting Critical Infrastructure Act</strong></p><p>This bill increases federal criminal penalties for computer fraud and abuse offenses that involve critical infrastructure. The term<em> critical infrastructure</em> means systems and assets, physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health and safety, or any combination of those matters.</p><p>Specifically, the bill imposes a fine, a mandatory minimum prison term of 30 years, or both for a computer fraud or abuse offense that involves critical infrastructure.</p><p>Additionally, the bill directs the President to impose asset- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that access or attempt to access critical infrastructure.</p>