Bill Text: PA HB1842 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Further providing for concealing death of child.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 50-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-16 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB1842 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1842-Amended.html

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PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 2381, 3099 PRINTER'S NO. 3199
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1842 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY SIMMONS, TOOHIL, CHRISTIANA, BOBACK, ADOLPH, BOYD, BROOKS, R. BROWN, CAUSER, COX, CUTLER, DiGIROLAMO, EMRICK, EVANKOVICH, FARRY, FLECK, FREEMAN, GABLER, GIBBONS, GILLEN, GINGRICH, GRELL, GROVE, HARHART, HEFFLEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, KAUFFMAN, F. KELLER, M. K. KELLER, KILLION, KNOWLES, LAWRENCE, MAJOR, MARSHALL, METCALFE, MICOZZIE, MOUL, MURT, OBERLANDER, O'NEILL, RAPP, REED, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, SACCONE, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, TALLMAN, WATSON, DENLINGER AND CALTAGIRONE, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MARCH 12, 2012
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for concealing death
of child.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4303(a) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
§ 4303. Concealing death of child.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a [misdemeanor
of the first degree] felony of the third degree if he or she as
a parent, individual residing in the same household as the child <--
or an individual responsible for the child's welfare, endeavors
privately, either alone or by the procurement of others, to
conceal the death of [his or her] the child, so that it may not <--
come to light, whether it was born dead or alive or whether it
was murdered or not.
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(c) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Parent." A natural parent, stepparent, adoptive parent,
guardian , a person responsible for the child's welfare, any <--
individual residing in the same home as the child or a paramour
of the child's parent guardian or an individual involved in an <--
intimate relationship with the child's parent.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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