PRINTER'S NO. 728
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
628
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY DONATUCCI, DRISCOLL, BISHOP, MILLARD, D. COSTA,
YOUNGBLOOD, McNEILL, READSHAW, SCHWEYER, V. BROWN, HELM,
COHEN, KINSEY, THOMAS, MAHONEY, KIRKLAND, WATSON AND MURT,
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 26, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for
aggravated assault.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2702(c) and (d) of Title 18 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
ยง 2702. Aggravated assault.
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(c) Officers, employees, etc., enumerated.--The officers,
agents, employees and other persons referred to in subsection
(a) shall be as follows:
(1) Police officer.
(2) Firefighter.
(3) County adult probation or parole officer.
(4) County juvenile probation or parole officer.
(5) An agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
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Parole.
(6) Sheriff.
(7) Deputy sheriff.
(8) Liquor control enforcement agent.
(9) Officer or employee of a correctional institution,
county jail or prison, juvenile detention center or any other
facility to which the person has been ordered by the court
pursuant to a petition alleging delinquency under 42 Pa.C.S.
Ch. 63 (relating to juvenile matters).
(10) Judge of any court in the unified judicial system.
(11) The Attorney General.
(12) A deputy attorney general.
(13) A district attorney.
(14) An assistant district attorney.
(15) A public defender.
(16) An assistant public defender.
(17) A Federal law enforcement official.
(18) A State law enforcement official.
(19) A local law enforcement official.
(20) Any person employed to assist or who assists any
Federal, State or local law enforcement official.
(21) Emergency medical services personnel.
(22) Parking enforcement officer.
(23) A magisterial district judge.
(24) A constable.
(25) A deputy constable.
(26) A psychiatric aide.
(27) A teaching staff member, a school board member or
other employee, including a student employee, of any
elementary or secondary publicly funded educational
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institution, any elementary or secondary private school
licensed by the Department of Education or any elementary or
secondary parochial school while acting in the scope of his
or her employment or because of his or her employment
relationship to the school.
(28) Governor.
(29) Lieutenant Governor.
(30) Auditor General.
(31) State Treasurer.
(32) Member of the General Assembly.
(33) An employee of the Department of Environmental
Protection.
(34) An individual engaged in the private detective
business as defined in section 2(a) and (b) of the act of
August 21, 1953 (P.L.1273, No.361), known as The Private
Detective Act of 1953.
(35) An employee or agent of a county children and youth
social service agency or of the legal representative of such
agency.
(36) A public utility employee or an employee of an
electric cooperative.
(37) A wildlife conservation officer or deputy wildlife
conservation officer of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
(38) A waterways conservation officer or deputy
waterways conservation officer of the Pennsylvania Fish and
Boat Commission.
(39) Any other elected or appointed official or employee
of the Commonwealth or any of its agencies, authorities,
boards, commissions, councils, departments and offices or of
any county, school district or municipality or of any county,
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school district or municipal authority, board or commission
while acting in the scope of his or her employment or other
service or because of his or her employment or other service
with the Commonwealth or any of its agencies, authorities,
boards, commissions, councils, departments and offices or of
any county, school district or municipality or of any county,
school district or municipal authority, board or commission.
(d) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection:
"Electric or electronic incapacitation device." A portable
device which is designed or intended by the manufacturer to be
used, offensively or defensively, to temporarily immobilize or
incapacitate persons by means of electric pulse or current,
including devices operated by means of carbon dioxide
propellant. The term does not include cattle prods, electric
fences or other electric devices when used in agricultural,
animal husbandry or food production activities.
"Emergency medical services personnel." The term includes,
but is not limited to, doctors, residents, interns, registered
nurses, licensed practical nurses, nurse aides, ambulance
attendants and operators, paramedics, emergency medical
technicians and members of a hospital security force while
working within the scope of their employment.
"Municipality." A city, borough, incorporated town, township
or home rule municipality.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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