Bill Text: PA HR14 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Recognizing the month of January 2013 as "Stalking Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-01-15 - Adopted (199-0) [HR14 Detail]
Download: Pennsylvania-2013-HR14-Introduced.html
| PRINTER'S NO. 71 |
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. | 14 | Session of 2013 |
INTRODUCED BY READSHAW, O'BRIEN, ROSS, BISHOP, HESS, NEUMAN, MICOZZIE, SWANGER, SCHLOSSBERG, V. BROWN, RAVENSTAHL, DAVIS, CONKLIN, EVERETT, DONATUCCI, BAKER, D. COSTA, BROWNLEE, MILLARD, YOUNGBLOOD, SCAVELLO, HARHART, MCNEILL, MAJOR, MARSICO, FABRIZIO, MACKENZIE, KORTZ, WATSON, BRADFORD, KULA, ROCK, GOODMAN, WHITE, PICKETT, DIGIROLAMO, MOUL, DELUCA, MATZIE, MCCARTER, FREEMAN AND MILLER, JANUARY 14, 2013
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, JANUARY 14, 2013
A RESOLUTION
1Recognizing the month of January 2013 as "Stalking Awareness
2Month" in Pennsylvania.
3WHEREAS, January 2013 will be observed nationally as the
4fifth annual "Stalking Awareness Month"; and
5WHEREAS, More than one million women and almost 400,000 men
6are victims of stalkers annually; and
7WHEREAS, Most frequently, stalkers are former intimate
8partners and abusers of the person being stalked, and 76% of
9persons who have been murdered by their stalker have at one time
10been an intimate partner of that stalker; and
11WHEREAS, Stalking victims experience lost time from work,
12anxiety, insomnia, social dysfunction and severe depression in
13significantly higher numbers than the general public; and
14WHEREAS, Stalking pervasively occurs in neighborhoods, on
15college campuses and in workplace environments and is a crime
1under the laws of all 50 states, the District of Columbia and
2Federal statute; and
3WHEREAS, Notwithstanding these facts, awareness of the
4pervasiveness and detrimental social impact of stalking is
5minimal; and
6WHEREAS, To raise social awareness, January 2013 has been set
7aside nationwide as "Stalking Awareness Month"; therefore be it
8RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
9month of January 2013 as "Stalking Awareness Month" in
10Pennsylvania.
