PRINTER'S NO. 383
No. 360 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY SALVATORE, CORMAN, RHOADES, PETERSON AND LEMMOND,
FEBRUARY 5, 1993
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 5, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of
3 aggravated assault.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2702(a) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2702. Aggravated assault.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of aggravated
10 assault if he:
11 (1) attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another,
12 or causes such injury intentionally, knowingly or recklessly
13 under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the
14 value of human life;
15 (2) attempts to cause or intentionally, knowingly or
16 recklessly causes serious bodily injury to a police officer,
17 firefighter, district justice, county adult probation or
18 parole officer, county juvenile probation or parole officer
1 or an agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
2 in the performance of duty or to an employee of an agency,
3 company or other entity engaged in public transportation,
4 while in the performance of duty;
5 (3) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
6 causes bodily injury to a police officer, firefighter,
7 district justice or county adult probation or parole officer,
8 county juvenile probation or parole officer or an agent of
9 the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole in the
10 performance of duty;
11 (4) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
12 causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon; or
13 (5) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
14 causes bodily injury to a teaching staff member, school board
15 member, other employee or student of any elementary or
16 secondary publicly-funded educational institution, any
17 elementary or secondary private school licensed by the
18 Department of Education or any elementary or secondary
19 parochial school while acting in the scope of his or her
20 employment or because of his or her employment relationship
21 to the school.
22 * * *
23 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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