PRINTER'S NO. 1026
No. 876 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, ERICKSON, FOLMER,
KITCHEN, LOGAN, MUSTO, ORIE, PIPPY, PUNT, RAFFERTY, REGOLA,
SCARNATI, STACK, TARTAGLIONE, WASHINGTON, WAUGH, WONDERLING
AND WOZNIAK, MAY 18, 2007
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MAY 18, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for sexual abuse of
3 children.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6312 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 6312. Sexual abuse of children.
9 * * *
10 (g) Concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute.--The Attorney
11 General shall have concurrent prosecutorial jurisdiction with
12 the district attorney for violations under this section and any
13 crime arising out of the activity prohibited by this section. No
14 person charged with a violation of this section by the Attorney
15 General shall have standing to challenge the authority of the
16 Attorney General to prosecute the case, and, if any such
17 challenge is made, the challenge shall be dismissed and no
1 relief shall be available in the courts of this Commonwealth to
2 the person making the challenge.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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