Bill Text: PA SB488 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for mandatory prison sentences for arson and related offenses.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-11 - Referred to JUDICIARY [SB488 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB488-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 489
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 488 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, BOSCOLA, BREWSTER, KITCHEN, RAFFERTY AND WAUGH, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, providing for mandatory prison
sentences for arson and related offenses.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3301(b) and (c) of Title 18 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 3301. Arson and related offenses.
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(b) Sentence.--A person convicted of violating the
provisions of subsection (a)(2), murder of the first degree,
shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment without right
to parole; a person convicted of murder of the second degree,
pursuant to subsection (a)(2), shall be sentenced to life
imprisonment without right to parole. Notwithstanding provisions
to the contrary, no language herein shall infringe upon the
inherent powers of the Governor to commute said sentence. A
person convicted of violating subsection (a)(1) shall be
sentenced to a mandatory minimum five-year term of imprisonment.
(c) Arson endangering property.--A person commits a felony
of the second degree if he intentionally starts a fire or causes
an explosion, whether on his own property or that of another, or
if he aids, counsels, pays or agrees to pay another to cause a
fire or explosion, and if:
(1) he commits the act with intent of destroying or
damaging a building or unoccupied structure of another;
(2) he thereby recklessly places an inhabited building
or occupied structure of another in danger of damage or
destruction; or
(3) he commits the act with intent of destroying or
damaging any property, whether his own or of another, to
collect insurance for such loss.
A person convicted of violating this subsection shall be
sentenced to a mandatory minimum two-year term of imprisonment.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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