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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 1579

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 1171 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY FUMO, TARTAGLIONE, STACK, KITCHEN, A. WILLIAMS,
           HUGHES AND WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 27, 2007

        REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 27, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of
     3     carrying a firearm without a license.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 6106(a) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 6106.  Firearms not to be carried without a license.
     9     (a)  Offense defined.--
    10         (1)  Except as provided in paragraph (2), any person who
    11     carries a firearm in any vehicle or any person who carries a
    12     firearm concealed on or about his person, except in his place
    13     of abode or fixed place of business, without a valid and
    14     lawfully issued license under this chapter commits a felony
    15     of the third degree[.]and shall, upon conviction, serve a
    16     mandatory minimum one-year sentence.
    17         (2)  A person who is otherwise eligible to possess a
    18     valid license under this chapter but carries a firearm in any

     1     vehicle or any person who carries a firearm concealed on or
     2     about his person, except in his place of abode or fixed place
     3     of business, without a valid and lawfully issued license and
     4     has not committed any other criminal violation commits a
     5     misdemeanor of the first degree[.]and shall, upon conviction,
     6     serve a mandatory minimum one-year sentence.
     7     * * *
     8     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.















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