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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 2002

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 1572 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY MOYER, BARRAR, EVERETT, FLECK, FREEMAN, GEIST,
           HARHART, HARPER, HENNESSEY, M. KELLER, KORTZ, LEACH,
           R. MILLER, MILNE, MOUL, MURT, PICKETT, REICHLEY, SCAVELLO,
           SCHRODER, SIPTROTH, STERN, J. TAYLOR, THOMAS AND WATSON,
           JUNE 20, 2007

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 20, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of
     3     robbery.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 3701 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 3701.  Robbery.
     9     (a)  Offense defined.--
    10         (1)  A person is guilty of robbery if, in the course of
    11     committing a theft, he:
    12             (i)  inflicts serious bodily injury upon another;
    13             (ii)  threatens another with or intentionally puts
    14         him in fear of immediate serious bodily injury;
    15             (iii)  commits or threatens immediately to commit any
    16         felony of the first or second degree;
    17             (iv)  inflicts bodily injury upon another or

     1         threatens another with or intentionally puts him in fear
     2         of immediate bodily injury; [or]
     3             (v)  physically takes or removes property from the
     4         person of another by force however slight[.]; or
     5             (vi)  takes or removes the money of a financial
     6         institution without the permission of the financial
     7         institution by making a demand of an employee of the
     8         financial institution orally or in writing with the
     9         intent to deprive the financial institution thereof.
    10         (2)  An act shall be deemed "in the course of committing
    11     a theft" if it occurs in an attempt to commit theft or in
    12     flight after the attempt or commission.
    13         (3)  For purposes of this subsection, a "financial
    14     institution" means a bank, trust company, savings trust,
    15     credit union or similar institution.
    16     (b)  Grading.--Robbery under subsection (a)(1)(iv) and (vi)
    17  is a felony of the second degree; robbery under subsection
    18  (a)(1)(v) is a felony of the third degree; otherwise, it is a
    19  felony of the first degree.
    20     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.







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