PRINTER'S NO. 714
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
635
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY MARTIN, RAFFERTY, BARTOLOTTA, FOLMER, AUMENT,
HUGHES, VULAKOVICH, LANGERHOLC AND SCAVELLO, APRIL 18, 2017
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, APRIL 18, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 75 (Vehicles) of
the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in culpability,
further providing for causal relationship between conduct and
result; in criminal homicide, further providing for the
offense of murder; and, in driving after imbibing alcohol or
utilizing drugs, further providing for grading and for
penalties.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 303(c) and 2502(c) of Title 18 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 303. Causal relationship between conduct and result.
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(c) Divergence between probable and actual result.--When
recklessly or negligently causing a particular result is an
element of an offense, the element is not established if the
actual result is not within the risk of which the actor is aware
or, in the case of negligence, of which he should be aware
unless:
(1) the actual result differs from the probable result
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