PRINTER'S NO. 36
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
12
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY GROVE, THOMAS, McCLINTON, KAUFFMAN, RYAN, SIMMONS,
SAYLOR, OTTEN, PICKETT, EVERETT, DAY, FRITZ, READSHAW,
NESBIT, NELSON, MILLARD, B. MILLER, FITZGERALD, HARKINS,
HICKERNELL, JONES, TOPPER, TOOHIL, DELOZIER, MALONEY,
SCHEMEL, LEWIS, COX, OWLETT, KLUNK, RAPP, METCALFE, HERSHEY,
GLEIM, GABLER, BOROWICZ, O'NEAL, JAMES, DIAMOND, PASHINSKI,
BERNSTINE, GREINER, COOK, KORTZ, ORTITAY, ROTHMAN, BROWN,
STRUZZI, GILLEN, YOUNGBLOOD, DeLUCA, T. DAVIS, GILLESPIE,
McNEILL, HEFFLEY, BENNINGHOFF, KEEFER, BRIGGS, DUSH,
MEHAFFIE, QUINN AND MENTZER, JANUARY 28, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 28, 2019
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in human trafficking, further providing for the
offense of trafficking in individuals and for the offense of
patronizing a victim of sexual servitude; in public
indecency, further providing for the offense of prostitution
and related offenses; and, in depositions and witnesses,
further providing for definitions and for recorded testimony.
This act may be cited as the Buyer Beware Act.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 3011(a) and 3013(a) and (c) of Title 18
of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 3011. Trafficking in individuals.
(a) Offense defined.--A person commits a felony of the
[second] first degree if the person:
(1) recruits, entices, solicits, advertises, harbors,
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