HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 169 PRINTER'S NO. 1099
No. 164 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY COSTA, GREENLEAF, KITCHEN, KUKOVICH, WAGNER,
RAFFERTY, LOGAN, STOUT, TARTAGLIONE, PUNT, WOZNIAK, O'PAKE,
KASUNIC, SCHWARTZ AND C. WILLIAMS, FEBRUARY 4, 2003
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JULY 15, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
3 criminal victim aid good Samaritan civil immunity.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 8331.3 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 8331.3. Criminal victim aid good Samaritan civil immunity.
9 (a) General rule.--Any person who provides or obtains or
10 attempts to provide or obtain assistance for a victim of a
11 PERSONAL INJURY crime [involving death, serious physical injury, <--
12 robbery, burglary, kidnapping, rape, statutory sexual assault,
13 involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault,
14 aggravated indecent assault or indecent assault] at the scene of
15 the [criminal act] personal injury crime or attempted [criminal
16 act] personal injury crime shall not be liable for any civil
17 damages as a result of any acts or omissions in providing or
1 obtaining or attempting to provide or obtain assistance, except
2 any acts or omissions intentionally designed to harm or any acts
3 or omissions that constitute gross negligence or willful, wanton
4 or reckless conduct.
5 (b) Definitions.--The terms "personal injury crime" and
6 "victim" shall have the same meanings given to them in section
7 103 of the act of November 24, 1998 (P.L.882, No.111), known as
8 the Crime Victims Act.
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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