THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY BAKER, VOGEL, TARTAGLIONE, SCARNATI, ALLOWAY, FOLMER, KITCHEN, PICCOLA, ERICKSON, WASHINGTON, RAFFERTY, MUSTO, BROWNE, HUGHES, STOUT, ORIE, YAW, WOZNIAK, SMUCKER, PIPPY, O'PAKE, LOGAN, EARLL, WONDERLING, KASUNIC, BRUBAKER, WILLIAMS AND BOSCOLA, FEBRUARY 19, 2009

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, further providing for sexual abuse of

children.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 6312 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:

§ 6312.  Sexual abuse of children.

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(g)  Concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute.--The Attorney

General shall have concurrent prosecutorial jurisdiction with

the district attorney for violations under this section and any

crime arising out of the activity prohibited by this section. No

person charged with a violation of this section by the Attorney

General shall have standing to challenge the authority of the

Attorney General to prosecute the case, and, if any such

challenge is made, the challenge shall be dismissed and no

relief shall be available in the courts of this Commonwealth to

the person making the challenge.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.