HOUSE AMENDED

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

AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MAY 4, 2010   

AN ACT

Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, in minors, further providing for 

corruption of minors and for the offense of sexual abuse of

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children.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 6312 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:

Section 1.  Section 6301(a)(1) of Title 18 of the

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Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 6301.  Corruption of minors.

(a)  Offense defined.--

(1)  [Whoever] (i)  Except as provided in subparagraph

(ii), whoever, being of the age of 18 years and upwards,

by any act corrupts or tends to corrupt the morals of any

minor less than 18 years of age, or who aids, abets,

entices or encourages any such minor in the commission of

any crime, or who knowingly assists or encourages such

minor in violating his or her parole or any order of

court, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree.

(ii)  Where there is a course of conduct that

violates this paragraph, the offense constitutes a felony

of the third degree.

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Section 2.  Section 6312 of Title 18 is amended by adding a

subsection to read:

§ 6312.  Sexual abuse of children.

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(f.1)  Criminal action.--

(1)  A district attorney shall have the authority to

investigate and to institute criminal proceedings for any

violation of this section.

(2)  In addition to the authority conferred upon the

Attorney General by the act of October 15, 1980 (P.L.950,

No.164), known as the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, the

Attorney General shall have the authority to investigate and

to institute criminal proceedings for any violation of this

section or any series of violations of this section involving

more than one county of this Commonwealth or involving any

county of this Commonwealth and another state. 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 investigate or 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.

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Section 2 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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