Bill Text: PA SB260 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: In minors, further providing for corruption of minors and for the offense of sexual abuse of children.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2010-10-07 - Act No. 69 [SB260 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB260-Amended.html

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HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 264, 1548, 1944 PRINTER'S NO. 2134
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 260 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, VOGEL, TARTAGLIONE, SCARNATI, ALLOWAY, FOLMER, KITCHEN, PICCOLA, ERICKSON, WASHINGTON, RAFFERTY, MUSTO, BROWNE, HUGHES, STOUT, ORIE, YAW, WOZNIAK, SMUCKER, PIPPY, O'PAKE, LOGAN, EARLL, WONDERLING, KASUNIC, BRUBAKER, WILLIAMS AND BOSCOLA, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE AMENDMENTS, JULY 1, 2010
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in minors, further providing for
corruption of minors and for the offense of sexual abuse of
children.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6301(a)(1) of Title 18 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 6301. Corruption of minors.
(a) Offense defined.--
(1) [Whoever] (i) Except as provided in subparagraph
(ii), whoever, being of the age of 18 years and upwards,
by any act corrupts or tends to corrupt the morals of any
minor less than 18 years of age, or who aids, abets,
entices or encourages any such minor in the commission of
any crime, or who knowingly assists or encourages such
minor in violating his or her parole or any order of
court, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ii) Where there is a course of conduct that <--
violates this paragraph, the offense constitutes Whoever, <--
being of the age of 18 years and upwards, by any course
of conduct in violation of Chapter 31 (relating to sexual
offenses) corrupts or tends to corrupt the morals of any
minor less than 18 years of age, or who aids, abets,
entices or encourages any such minor in the commission of
an offense under Chapter 31 commits a felony of the third
degree.
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Section 2. Section 6312 of Title 18 is amended by adding a
subsection to read:
§ 6312. Sexual abuse of children.
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(f.1) Criminal action.--
(1) A district attorney shall have the authority to
investigate and to institute criminal proceedings for any
violation of this section.
(2) In addition to the authority conferred upon the
Attorney General by the act of October 15, 1980 (P.L.950,
No.164), known as the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, the
Attorney General shall have the authority to investigate and
to institute criminal proceedings for any violation of this
section or any series of violations of this section involving
more than one county of this Commonwealth or involving any
county of this Commonwealth and another state. No person
charged with a violation of this section by the Attorney
General shall have standing to challenge the authority of the
Attorney General to investigate or prosecute the case, and,
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if any such challenge is made, the challenge shall be
dismissed and no relief shall be available in the courts of
this Commonwealth to the person making the challenge.
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Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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