Bill Text: PA SB484 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for simple assault.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-11 - Referred to JUDICIARY [SB484 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB484-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 485
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 484 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, BOSCOLA, BREWSTER, KITCHEN, ORIE, RAFFERTY, STACK, TARTAGLIONE, WAUGH AND WOZNIAK, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for simple assault.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2701 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 2701. Simple assault.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of assault if he:
(1) attempts to cause or intentionally, knowingly or
recklessly causes bodily injury to another;
(2) negligently causes bodily injury to another with a
deadly weapon;
(3) attempts by physical menace to put another in fear
of imminent serious bodily injury; [or]
(4) conceals or attempts to conceal a hypodermic needle
on his person and intentionally or knowingly penetrates a law
enforcement officer or an officer or an employee of a
correctional institution, county jail or prison, detention
facility or mental hospital during the course of an arrest or
any search of the person[.]; or
(5) intentionally or recklessly propels an object to
make contact with a moving vehicle which results in bodily
injury or temporary bodily impairment.
(b) Grading.--[Simple assault is a misdemeanor of the second
degree unless committed:]
(1) Simple assault under subsection (a)(1), (2), (3) or
(4) is a misdemeanor of the second degree unless committed in
a fight or scuffle entered into by mutual consent, in which
case it is a misdemeanor of the third degree[; or].
(2) Simple assault under subsection (a)(1), (2), (3) or
(4) is a misdemeanor of the second degree unless committed
against a child under 12 years of age by an adult 21 years of
age or older, in which case it is a misdemeanor of the first
degree.
(3) Simple assault under subsection (a)(5) is a
misdemeanor of the first degree.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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