PRINTER'S NO. 1366
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
942
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY STREET, BARTOLOTTA, KILLION, COSTA, HUGHES,
FARNESE, KEARNEY, HAYWOOD, LEACH AND SCHWANK,
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019
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;
in miscellaneous provisions, establishing the Life with
Parole Reinvestment Fund; and, in Pennsylvania Board of
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), (b), (c)(1) and (d)
introductory paragraph of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes are amended and the section is amended by
adding a subsection 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] Except as provided under
subsection (a.1), a person who has been convicted after June 24,
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