Bill Text: PA HB1646 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: In assault, further providing for the offense of aggravated assault.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-11)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-06-28 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB1646 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1646-Amended.html

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PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 2062, 2090 PRINTER'S NO. 2163
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1646 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY D. COSTA, O'NEILL, B. BOYLE, K. BOYLE, BRADFORD, CONKLIN, CREIGHTON, DEASY, DeLUCA, FABRIZIO, FRANKEL, GEIST, GOODMAN, HARKINS, HORNAMAN, MAHONEY, MANN, MATZIE, MICOZZIE, MILLER, MURPHY, MURT, PAYNE, PRESTON, PYLE, READSHAW, SANTARSIERO, STABACK, SWANGER, YOUNGBLOOD, BRIGGS, V. BROWN, M. O'BRIEN, RAVENSTAHL, McGEEHAN, BOBACK, BRENNAN, DAVIS, GIBBONS, PASHINSKI AND KORTZ, JUNE 8, 2011
AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 21, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for the
offense of aggravated assault.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2702(a)(5) and (c)(2) and (27) of Title
18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended and <--
subsection (d) is amended by adding a definition to read:
§ 2702. Aggravated assault.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of aggravated
assault if he:
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(5) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
causes bodily injury to a teaching staff member, school board
member or other employee, including a student employee, of
any elementary or secondary publicly-funded educational
institution, any elementary or secondary private school
licensed by the Department of Education or any elementary or
secondary parochial school while acting in the scope of his
or her employment or because of his or her employment
relationship to the school, or a crossing guard while acting
in the scope of his or her official capacity as designated by
a political subdivision, school entity or police department;
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(c) Officers, employees, etc., enumerated.--The officers,
agents, employees and other persons referred to in subsection
(a) shall be as follows:
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(2) Firefighter, including volunteer firefighters and
special fire police.
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(27) A teaching staff member, a school board member or
other employee, including a student employee, of any
elementary or secondary publicly funded educational
institution, any elementary or secondary private school
licensed by the Department of Education or any elementary or
secondary parochial school while acting in the scope of his
or her employment or because of his or her employment
relationship to the school, or a crossing guard while acting
in the scope of his or her official capacity as designated by
a political subdivision, school entity or police department.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. <--
(d) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following <--
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
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subsection:
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"Public utility employee or an employee of an electric
cooperative." The term includes all of the following:
(1) An employee of a public utility.
(2) An employee of a municipally owned utility.
(3) An employee of a cable television company.
(4) An employee of an electric distribution company.
(5) An employee of an electric generation company.
(6) An independent contractor or an employee of an
independent contractor working on behalf of a cable
television company, a public utility, a municipally owned
utility, an electric distribution company, an electric
generation company or an electric cooperative.
(7) An employee of a telecommunications carrier.
(8) An independent contractor or an employee of an
independent contractor working on behalf of a
telecommunications carrier.
(9) An employee of a telephone or telecommunications
cooperative.
(10) An independent contractor or an employee of an
independent contractor working on behalf of a telephone or
telecommunications cooperative.
Section 2. This act shall take effect as follows:
(1) The following provisions shall take effect
immediately:
(i) The addition of the definition of "public
utility employee or an employee of an electric
cooperative" in 18 Pa.C.S. § 2702(d).
(ii) This section.
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(2) The remainder of this act shall take effect in 60
days.
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