PRINTER'S NO. 4062
No. 2975 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY DENT, D. W. SNYDER, ULIANA, SEMMEL, COWELL,
M. N. WRIGHT, GEIST, MARSICO, PETRARCA, JOHNSON, STABACK,
CESSAR, BARLEY, DEMPSEY, SAURMAN, GERLACH, SCRIMENTI,
SCHULER, KING, FAJT, KOSINSKI, NOYE, HARPER, ITKIN, LINTON,
FARGO, PITTS, ARMSTRONG, ADOLPH, ARGALL, J. TAYLOR, ARNOLD
AND NAILOR, SEPTEMBER 30, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1992
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for aggravated
3 assault.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2702(a) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2702. Aggravated assault.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of aggravated
10 assault if he:
11 (1) attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another,
12 or causes such injury intentionally, knowingly or recklessly
13 under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the
14 value of human life;
15 (2) attempts to cause or intentionally, knowingly or
16 recklessly causes serious bodily injury to a police officer,
1 firefighter, county adult probation or parole officer, county
2 juvenile probation or parole officer, State or county
3 corrections officer or an agent of the Pennsylvania Board of
4 Probation and Parole in the performance of duty or to an
5 employee of an agency, company or other entity engaged in
6 public transportation, while in the performance of duty;
7 (3) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
8 causes bodily injury to a police officer, firefighter or
9 county adult probation or parole officer, county juvenile
10 probation or parole officer, State or county corrections
11 officer or an agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation
12 and Parole in the performance of duty;
13 (4) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
14 causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon; or
15 (5) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
16 causes bodily injury to a teaching staff member, school board
17 member, other employee or student of any elementary or
18 secondary publicly-funded educational institution, any
19 elementary or secondary private school licensed by the
20 Department of Education or any elementary or secondary
21 parochial school while acting in the scope of his or her
22 employment or because of his or her employment relationship
23 to the school.
24 * * *
25 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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