PRINTER'S NO. 1071
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
917
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY EVERETT, QUIGLEY, READSHAW, CAUSER, CUTLER,
M. K. KELLER, V. BROWN, RAPP, WARD, PASHINSKI, SAINATO,
KEEFER, PICKETT, LONGIETTI, KAUFFMAN, BARRAR, A. HARRIS,
LAWRENCE, CORBIN, GROVE, WATSON, WHEELAND, SAYLOR, MARSHALL,
GILLEN AND IRVIN, MARCH 22, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 22, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in municipal police education and
training, prohibiting motorcycle profiling and establishing a
private right of action.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 53 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 2167.1. Motorcycle profiling prohibited.
(a) General rule.--No police officer or police department
may engage in motorcycle profiling in this Commonwealth.
(b) Duty of commission.--The commission shall include, as
part of the basic and in-service training required by this
subchapter, instruction on what conduct constitutes motorcycle
profiling in patrol procedures and other police department
operations and the duty to refrain from engaging in motorcycle
profiling.
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