SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1182 PRINTER'S NO. 1923
No. 1006 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY MARSICO, BAKER, BARRAR, BELFANTI, CAPPELLI,
CAWLEY, COSTA, DALEY, J. EVANS, FICHTER, GEIST, GILLESPIE,
GOODMAN, HARHAI, HARRIS, HERMAN, HORSEY, LEDERER, MELIO,
R. MILLER, NAILOR, PAYNE, PETRARCA, PICKETT, READSHAW, REED,
SAINATO, SAYLOR, SEMMEL, SHANER, B. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STABACK,
E. Z. TAYLOR, J. TAYLOR, THOMAS, TIGUE, WALKO, WEBER, WILT,
WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD AND PHILLIPS, APRIL 2, 2003
SENATOR GREENLEAF, JUDICIARY, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
JUNE 3, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of
3 aggravated assault.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2702(c) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania <--
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 SECTION 1. SECTION 2702(B) AND (C) OF TITLE 18 OF THE <--
9 PENNSYLVANIA CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, AMENDED NOVEMBER 6, 2002
10 (P.L.1096, NO.132), ARE AMENDED TO READ:
11 § 2702. Aggravated assault.
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13 (B) GRADING.--AGGRAVATED ASSAULT UNDER SUBSECTION (A)(1) AND <--
14 (2) IS A FELONY OF THE FIRST DEGREE. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT UNDER
15 SUBSECTION (A)(3), (4), (5), (6) [AND] OR (7) IS A FELONY OF THE
1 SECOND DEGREE.
2 (c) Officers, employees, etc., enumerated.--The officers,
3 agents, employees and other persons referred to in subsection
4 (a) shall be as follows:
5 (1) Police officer.
6 (2) Firefighter.
7 (3) County adult probation or parole officer.
8 (4) County juvenile probation or parole officer.
9 (5) An agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
10 Parole.
11 (6) Sheriff.
12 (7) Deputy sheriff.
13 (8) Liquor control enforcement agent.
14 (9) Officer or employee of a correctional institution,
15 county jail or prison, juvenile detention center or any other
16 facility to which the person has been ordered by the court
17 pursuant to a petition alleging delinquency under 42 Pa.C.S.
18 Ch. 63 (relating to juvenile matters).
19 (10) Judge of any court in the unified judicial system.
20 (11) The Attorney General.
21 (12) A deputy attorney general.
22 (13) A district attorney.
23 (14) An assistant district attorney.
24 (15) A public defender.
25 (16) An assistant public defender.
26 (17) A Federal law enforcement official.
27 (18) A State law enforcement official.
28 (19) A local law enforcement official.
29 (20) Any person employed to assist or who assists any
30 Federal, State or local law enforcement official.
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1 (21) Emergency medical services personnel.
2 (22) Parking enforcement officer.
3 (23) A district justice.
4 (24) A constable.
5 (25) A deputy constable.
6 (26) A psychiatric aide.
7 (27) A teaching staff member, a school board member or
8 other employee, including a student employee, of any
9 elementary or secondary publicly funded educational
10 institution, any elementary or secondary private school
11 licensed by the Department of Education or any elementary or
12 secondary parochial school while acting in the scope of his
13 or her employment or because of his or her employment
14 relationship to the school.
15 (28) Governor.
16 (29) Lieutenant Governor.
17 (30) Auditor General.
18 (31) State Treasurer.
19 (32) Member of the General Assembly.
20 (33) An employee of the Department of Environmental
21 Protection.
22 (34) An individual engaged in the private detective
23 business as defined in section 2(a) and (b) of the act of
24 August 21, 1953 (P.L.1273, No.361), known as The Private
25 Detective Act of 1953.
26 (35) An employee or agent of a county children and youth
27 social service agency.
28 (36) A transportation security administration airport
29 security screener.
30 (37) AN EMPLOYEE OF A CITY, BOROUGH, INCORPORATED TOWN <--
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1 OR TOWNSHIP.
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3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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