PRINTER'S NO. 2544
No. 1955 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY KENNEY, J. WILLIAMS, WOGAN, RAYMOND, RUBLEY,
M. BAKER, BASTIAN, BELFANTI, CAPPELLI, M. COHEN, COLAFELLA,
COSTA, COY, CREIGHTON, CURRY, DALEY, DeLUCA, FRANKEL,
FREEMAN, GEORGE, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HORSEY, LAUGHLIN,
LEVDANSKY, MANN, MELIO, R. MILLER, PETRARCA, SAINATO, SATHER,
SHANER, B. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STABACK, TANGRETTI, J. TAYLOR,
THOMAS, TIGUE, WALKO, WANSACZ, WATERS, WATSON, WOJNAROSKI,
YUDICHAK AND TRELLO, SEPTEMBER 26, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, SEPTEMBER 26, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for aggravated
3 assault.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2702(c) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2702. Aggravated assault.
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10 (c) Officers, employees, etc., enumerated.--The officers,
11 agents, employees and other persons referred to in subsection
12 (a) shall be as follows:
13 (1) Police officer.
14 (2) Firefighter.
15 (3) County adult probation or parole officer.
1 (4) County juvenile probation or parole officer.
2 (5) An agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
3 Parole.
4 (6) Sheriff.
5 (7) Deputy sheriff.
6 (8) Liquor control enforcement agent.
7 (9) Officer or employee of a correctional institution,
8 county jail or prison, juvenile detention center or any other
9 facility to which the person has been ordered by the court
10 pursuant to a petition alleging delinquency under 42 Pa.C.S.
11 Ch. 63 (relating to juvenile matters).
12 (10) Judge of any court in the unified judicial system.
13 (11) The Attorney General.
14 (12) A deputy attorney general.
15 (13) A district attorney.
16 (14) An assistant district attorney.
17 (15) A public defender.
18 (16) An assistant public defender.
19 (17) A Federal law enforcement official.
20 (18) A State law enforcement official.
21 (19) A local law enforcement official.
22 (20) Any person employed to assist or who assists any
23 Federal, State or local law enforcement official.
24 (21) Emergency medical services personnel.
25 (22) Parking enforcement officer.
26 (23) A district justice.
27 (24) A constable.
28 (25) A deputy constable.
29 (26) A psychiatric aide.
30 (27) A teaching staff member, a school board member or
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1 other employee, including a student employee, of any
2 elementary or secondary publicly funded educational
3 institution, any elementary or secondary private school
4 licensed by the Department of Education or any elementary or
5 secondary parochial school while acting in the scope of his
6 or her employment or because of his or her employment
7 relationship to the school.
8 (28) A public utility employee.
9 * * *
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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