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                                                       PRINTER'S NO. 227

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 193 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY PAYNE, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, COX,
           CREIGHTON, DALEY, DENLINGER, GINGRICH, GRELL, LEACH, MANN,
           MELIO, RAPP, READSHAW, ROSS, SCHRODER, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY,
           STABACK, STERN, SWANGER AND VEREB, FEBRUARY 5, 2007

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 5, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for discrimination
     3     on account of guide, signal or service dog or other aid
     4     animal.

     5     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     6  hereby enacts as follows:
     7     Section 1.  Section 7325 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
     8  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     9  § 7325.  Discrimination on account of guide, signal or service
    10             dog or other aid animal.
    11     A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, being the
    12  proprietor, manager or employee of a theatre, hotel, restaurant
    13  or other place of public accommodation, entertainment or
    14  amusement, refuses, withholds or denies any person, who is using
    15  a guide, signal or service dog or other aid animal that has been
    16  certified or is undergoing training by a recognized authority to
    17  assist a person, because of the physical disability, blindness
    18  or deafness of the user, or who is training a guide, signal or

     1  support dog or other aid animal for or from a recognized
     2  authority for such a user, the use of or access to any
     3  accommodation, advantage, facility or privilege of such theatre,
     4  hotel, restaurant or other place of public entertainment or
     5  amusement.
     6     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.
















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