PRINTER'S NO. 1268
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
135
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY DAWKINS, GAINEY, KINSEY, YOUNGBLOOD, BLOOM,
V. BROWN, BULLOCK, FRANKEL, McCLINTON, THOMAS, RAVENSTAHL,
KIM AND ROZZI, APRIL 7, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 7, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 42 (Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in authorized disposition
of offenders, further providing for sentence of persons under
the age of 18 for murder, murder of an unborn child and
murder of a law enforcement officer; in sentencing, further
providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses;
and, in probation and parole, further providing for parole
power.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1102.1(a) and (d) of Title 18 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 1102.1. Sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder,
murder of an unborn child and murder of a law
enforcement officer.
(a) First degree murder.--A person who has been convicted
after June 24, 2012, of a murder of the first degree, first
degree murder of an unborn child or murder of a law enforcement
officer of the first degree and who was under the age of 18 at
the time of the commission of the offense shall be sentenced as
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