PRINTER'S NO. 2931
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2029
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY GROVE, BAKER, BERNSTINE, KAUFFMAN, PICKETT,
TOPPER, RYAN, HAGGERTY, ORTITAY, FEE, HICKERNELL, BOBACK,
MILLARD, REESE, DOWLING, HILL-EVANS, WARD, PHILLIPS-HILL,
HELM, MENTZER, NEILSON, SCHWEYER, A. HARRIS AND DeLUCA,
JANUARY 24, 2018
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 24, 2018
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in human trafficking, further providing for the
offense of trafficking in individuals and for the offense of
patronizing a victim of sexual servitude and providing for
collection of evidence; in public indecency, further
providing for the offense of prostitution and related
offenses; in depositions and witnesses, further providing for
definitions and for recorded testimony; and, in sentencing,
further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 3011(a) and 3013(a) and (c) of Title 18
of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 3011. Trafficking in individuals.
(a) Offense defined.--A person commits a felony of the
[second] first degree if the person:
(1) recruits, entices, solicits, harbors, transports,
provides, obtains or maintains an individual if the person
knows or recklessly disregards that the individual will be
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