PRINTER'S NO. 1531
No. 1149 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY TARTAGLIONE, GREENLEAF, LAVALLE, COSTA, RAFFERTY,
STACK, ERICKSON, WASHINGTON, TOMLINSON, STOUT, LOGAN,
DINNIMAN, KASUNIC, BROWNE AND HUGHES, NOVEMBER 5, 2007
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 5, 2007
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(b), (c) and (d) of Title 18 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 2702. Aggravated assault.
9 * * *
10 (b) Grading.--Aggravated assault under subsection (a)(1)
11 [and] or (2) is a felony of the first degree. Aggravated assault
12 under subsection (a)(3), (4), (5), (6) [and] or (7) is a felony
13 of the second degree.
14 (c) Officers, employees, etc., enumerated.--The officers,
15 agents, employees and other persons referred to in subsection
16 (a) shall be as follows:
17 (1) Police officer.
18 (2) Firefighter.
1 (3) County adult probation or parole officer.
2 (4) County juvenile probation or parole officer.
3 (5) An agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
4 Parole.
5 (6) Sheriff.
6 (7) Deputy sheriff.
7 (8) Liquor control enforcement agent.
8 (9) Officer or employee of a correctional institution,
9 county jail or prison, juvenile detention center or any other
10 facility to which the person has been ordered by the court
11 pursuant to a petition alleging delinquency under 42 Pa.C.S.
12 Ch. 63 (relating to juvenile matters).
13 (10) Judge of any court in the unified judicial system.
14 (11) The Attorney General.
15 (12) A deputy attorney general.
16 (13) A district attorney.
17 (14) An assistant district attorney.
18 (15) A public defender.
19 (16) An assistant public defender.
20 (17) A Federal law enforcement official.
21 (18) A State law enforcement official.
22 (19) A local law enforcement official.
23 (20) Any person employed to assist or who assists any
24 Federal, State or local law enforcement official.
25 (21) Emergency medical services personnel.
26 (22) Parking enforcement officer.
27 (23) A magisterial district judge.
28 (24) A constable.
29 (25) A deputy constable.
30 (26) A psychiatric aide.
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1 (27) A teaching staff member, a school board member or
2 other employee, including a student employee, of any
3 elementary or secondary publicly funded educational
4 institution, any elementary or secondary private school
5 licensed by the Department of Education or any elementary or
6 secondary parochial school while acting in the scope of his
7 or her employment or because of his or her employment
8 relationship to the school.
9 (28) Governor.
10 (29) Lieutenant Governor.
11 (30) Auditor General.
12 (31) State Treasurer.
13 (32) Member of the General Assembly.
14 (33) An employee of the Department of Environmental
15 Protection.
16 (34) An individual engaged in the private detective
17 business as defined in section 2(a) and (b) of the act of
18 August 21, 1953 (P.L.1273, No.361), known as The Private
19 Detective Act of 1953.
20 (35) An employee or agent of a county children and youth
21 social service agency or of the legal representative of such
22 agency.
23 (36) A public utility employee or an employee of an
24 electric cooperative.
25 (37) A mass transit employee.
26 (d) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
27 words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
28 subsection:
29 "Electric or electronic incapacitation device." A portable
30 device which is designed or intended by the manufacturer to be
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1 used, offensively or defensively, to temporarily immobilize or
2 incapacitate persons by means of electric pulse or current,
3 including devices operated by means of carbon dioxide
4 propellant. The term does not include cattle prods, electric
5 fences or other electric devices when used in agricultural,
6 animal husbandry or food production activities.
7 "Emergency medical services personnel." The term includes,
8 but is not limited to, doctors, residents, interns, registered
9 nurses, licensed practical nurses, nurse aides, ambulance
10 attendants and operators, paramedics, emergency medical
11 technicians and members of a hospital security force while
12 working within the scope of their employment.
13 "Mass transit employee." A driver, operator or other
14 attendant of a vehicle, other than a taxicab or limousine,
15 designed for carrying 15 or more passengers exclusive of the
16 driver and designed and used for the transportation of persons
17 for compensation, including, but not limited to, subway cars,
18 buses, trolleys, trackless trolleys and railroad passenger cars.
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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