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MN SF2649

Bill

Official Source

Status

Passed

5/22/2016

Primary Sponsor

James Carlson

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Origin

Senate

89th Legislature 2015-2016

AI Summary

  • Expands Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 609.593, subdivision 1 to include damage to telecommunications equipment as a crime
  • Adds specific protection for machinery, equipment, and fixtures used in receiving, initiating, amplifying, processing, transmitting, retransmitting, recording, switching, or monitoring telecommunications services, including computers, transformers, amplifiers, routers, repeaters, and multiplexers
  • Covers transportation infrastructure for telecommunications services such as radio transmitters and receivers, satellite equipment, microwave equipment, wire, cable, fiber, poles, and conduit
  • Makes intentional damage to or removal of these telecommunications components a criminal offense requiring lack of consent from an authorized party
  • Effective August 1, 2016, and applies to crimes committed on or after that date

Legislative Description

Energy transmission and telecommunications equipment crime damage expansion

Last Action

Governor approval

5/22/2016

Committee Referrals

Judiciary3/14/2016

Full Bill Text

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