PRINTER'S NO. 1986
No. 1463 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY SLOCUM, MAY 30, 2000
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MAY 30, 2000
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania 2 Consolidated Statutes, defining the offense of environmental 3 terrorism; and providing a penalty. 4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 5 hereby enacts as follows: 6 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read: 8 § 5518. Environmental terrorism. 9 (a) Offense defined.--A person commits the offense of 10 environmental terrorism if the person communicates to another 11 person a threat to commit or cause to be committed a crime of 12 violence dangerous to human life or destructive to property or 13 business practices, for the primary purpose of expressing a 14 perspective on an environmental or natural resource issue 15 against a person or business and the natural and probable 16 consequence of such a threat is one of the following: 17 (1) To place the person or business to whom the threat 18 is communicated or the person threatened in reasonable fear
1 that the crime will be committed. 2 (2) To cause injury in fact to persons or damage to 3 property or business. 4 (3) To cause an interruption in business that results in 5 loss of revenues or compensable damages. 6 (b) Restitution.--A person convicted under this section 7 shall, in addition to any other sentence imposed, be sentenced 8 to pay the business restitution in an amount equal to the cost 9 of the interruption of business directly relating to the act of 10 environmental terrorism. 11 (c) Grading.--An offense under this section is a misdemeanor 12 of the third degree. 13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. E23L18BIL/20000S1463B1986 - 2 -