PRINTER'S NO. 4557

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 2833 Session of 2008

        INTRODUCED BY DERMODY, McCALL, BELFANTI, EACHUS, PALLONE,
           M. SMITH, PASHINSKI, SOLOBAY, BRENNAN, FRANKEL, M. O'BRIEN,
           SIPTROTH, HORNAMAN, MARSHALL, MELIO, MOYER, J. WHITE,
           PETRARCA, VULAKOVICH, MENSCH, DONATUCCI, KORTZ, GIBBONS,
           GEIST, MURT AND STABACK, OCTOBER 29, 2008

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 29, 2008

                                     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(d) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:
     8  § 2702.  Aggravated assault.
     9     * * *
    10     (d)  Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
    11  words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
    12  subsection:
    13     * * *
    14     "Public utility employee or an employee of an electric
    15  cooperative."  The term includes all of the following:
    16         (1)  An employee of a public utility.
    17         (2)  An employee of a municipally owned utility.

     1         (3)  An employee of a cable television company.
     2         (4)  An employee of an electric distribution company.
     3         (5)  An employee of an electric generation company.
     4         (6)  An independent contractor or an employee of an
     5     independent contractor working on behalf of a cable
     6     television company, a public utility, a municipally owned
     7     utility, an electric distribution company, an electric
     8     generation company or an electric cooperative.
     9         (7)  An employee of a telecommunications carrier.
    10         (8)  An independent contractor or an employee of an
    11     independent contractor working on behalf of a
    12     telecommunications carrier.
    13         (9)  An employee of a telephone or telecommunications
    14     cooperative.
    15         (10)  An independent contractor or an employee of an
    16     independent contractor working on behalf of a telephone or
    17     telecommunications cooperative.
    18  Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.








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