Bill Text: PA HB990 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for the offense of luring a child into a motor vehicle or structure.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-16)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-08 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB990 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB990-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1817
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 990 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY GOODMAN, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BOBACK, BOYD, BRENNAN, BRIGGS, CARROLL, CLYMER, CONKLIN, DeLUCA, DONATUCCI, FABRIZIO, GEIST, GEORGE, GERGELY, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, HARKINS, HENNESSEY, HESS, KULA, MANN, MARSICO, MATZIE, MELIO, MOUL, MURPHY, MURT, PETRARCA, PHILLIPS, PRESTON, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, STABACK, STURLA, TRUE, WATSON AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 8, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MAY 8, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of
luring a child into a motor vehicle or structure.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2910 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 2910. Luring a child into a motor vehicle or structure.
(a) Offense.--Unless the circumstances reasonably indicate
that the child is in need of assistance, a person who lures or
attempts to lure a child into a motor vehicle or structure
without the consent, express or implied, of the child's parent
or guardian commits a [misdemeanor of the first] felony of the
third degree.
(b) Affirmative defense.--It shall be an affirmative defense
to a prosecution under this section that the person lured or
attempted to lure the child into the structure for a lawful
purpose.
(c) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection:
"Motor vehicle." Every self-propelled device in, upon or by
which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn
on a public highway.
"Structure." A house, apartment building, shop, warehouse,
barn, building, vessel, railroad car, cargo container, house
car, trailer, trailer coach, camper, mine, floating home or
other enclosed structure capable of holding a child, which is
not open to the general public.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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