PRINTER'S NO. 1412

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 1240 Session of 1987


        INTRODUCED BY WESTON, APRIL 29, 1987

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 29, 1987

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, changing the age requirements for the
     3     offense of statutory rape.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 3122 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 3122.  Statutory rape.
     9     A person who is 18 years of age or older commits statutory
    10  rape, a felony of the second degree, when he engages in sexual
    11  intercourse with another person not his spouse who is less than
    12  [14] 16 years of age.
    13     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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