PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2345
PRINTER'S NO. 2394
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
269
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY KINKEAD, RABB, MADDEN, HOHENSTEIN, KHAN, BOROWSKI,
HILL-EVANS, D. MILLER, OTTEN, SANCHEZ, KAZEEM, SCHLOSSBERG,
WARREN, DALEY, GREEN AND CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, NOVEMBER 30, 2023
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, DECEMBER 10, 2023
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish a
bipartisan task force to study any consolidated or
unconsolidated State statutes in the Pennsylvania Crimes
Code, Judicial Code, Sentencing Code or elsewhere under which
a term of imprisonment and other collateral consequences may
be imposed in order to identify redundant, overlapping and
inconsistent offenses, improper grading and gaps in criminal
liability, out-of-date, antiquated, offensive or
unenforceable language and to make recommendations to the
General Assembly.
WHEREAS, In 1972, the General Assembly enacted the Crimes
Code in Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes,
which contained 282 carefully considered offenses and
suboffenses; and
WHEREAS, Since the Crimes Code's enactment, it has expanded
more than fivefold and now contains more than 1,500 offenses and
suboffenses, the majority of which were created without a
thorough review of the entire Crimes Code; and
WHEREAS, According to a 2009 report on offense grading
jointly commissioned by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate
and the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives and
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