Bill Text: PA HB1113 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for the required recording of interrogations.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-17 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB1113 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1113-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1209
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1113 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY WATERS, DENLINGER, JOSEPHS, WAGNER AND STABACK, MARCH 17, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 17, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, providing for the required recording
of interrogations.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 5704.1. Required recording of interrogations.
Custodial and noncustodial interrogations by a law
enforcement officer of a person suspected of committing a felony
shall be audiotaped with or without the consent of the person
who is being interrogated.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.