Bill Text: PA HR527 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Recognizing the month of January 2010 as "Stalking Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-20)

Status: (Passed) 2009-12-16 - Adopted [HR527 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR527-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2866
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 527 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY READSHAW, BROWN, KORTZ, BELFANTI, BISHOP, BOBACK, BRENNAN, BRIGGS, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA, DALEY, DELOZIER, DeLUCA, DONATUCCI, FLECK, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GROVE, GRUCELA, HARHART, HESS, HOUGHTON, KIRKLAND, KOTIK, LONGIETTI, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MANN, MARKOSEK, McCALL, MELIO, MILLARD, MIRABITO, MOUL, MURPHY, PALLONE, PARKER, PAYNE, PHILLIPS, REICHLEY, ROCK, ROEBUCK, ROSS, SAINATO, SAYLOR, SEIP, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, STABACK, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH, WHITE AND YOUNGBLOOD, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the month of January 2010 as "Stalking Awareness
Month" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, January 2010 will be observed nationally as the
third annual "Stalking Awareness Month"; and
WHEREAS, More than one million women and almost 400,000 men
are victims of stalkers annually; and
WHEREAS, Most frequently, stalkers are former intimate
partners and abusers of the person being stalked, and 76% of
persons who have been murdered by their stalker have at one time
been an intimate partner of that stalker; and
WHEREAS, Stalking victims experience lost time from work,
anxiety, insomnia, social dysfunction and severe depression in
significantly higher numbers than the general public; and
WHEREAS, Stalking pervasively occurs in neighborhoods, on
college campuses and in workplace environments and is a crime
under the laws of all 50 states, the District of Columbia and
Federal statute; and
WHEREAS, Notwithstanding these facts, awareness of the
pervasiveness and detrimental social impact of stalking is
minimal; and
WHEREAS, To raise social awareness, January 2010 has been set
aside nationwide as "Stalking Awareness Month"; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
month of January 2010 as "Stalking Awareness Month" in
Pennsylvania.
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