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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, BOSCOLA, FONTANA, HUGHES, KITCHEN, LOGAN, MUSTO, RAFFERTY, STOUT AND WAUGH, MARCH 2, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 2, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, providing for mandatory prison |
3 | sentences for arson and related offenses. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 3301(b) and (c) of Title 18 of the |
7 | Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read: |
8 | § 3301. Arson and related offenses. |
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10 | (b) Sentence.--A person convicted of violating the |
11 | provisions of subsection (a)(2), murder of the first degree, |
12 | shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment without right |
13 | to parole; a person convicted of murder of the second degree, |
14 | pursuant to subsection (a)(2), shall be sentenced to life |
15 | imprisonment without right to parole. Notwithstanding provisions |
16 | to the contrary, no language herein shall infringe upon the |
17 | inherent powers of the Governor to commute said sentence. A |
18 | person convicted of violating subsection (a)(1) shall be |
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1 | sentenced to a mandatory minimum five-year term of imprisonment. |
2 | (c) Arson endangering property.--A person commits a felony |
3 | of the second degree if he intentionally starts a fire or causes |
4 | an explosion, whether on his own property or that of another, or |
5 | if he aids, counsels, pays or agrees to pay another to cause a |
6 | fire or explosion, and if: |
7 | (1) he commits the act with intent of destroying or |
8 | damaging a building or unoccupied structure of another; |
9 | (2) he thereby recklessly places an inhabited building |
10 | or occupied structure of another in danger of damage or |
11 | destruction; or |
12 | (3) he commits the act with intent of destroying or |
13 | damaging any property, whether his own or of another, to |
14 | collect insurance for such loss. |
15 | A person convicted of violating this subsection shall be |
16 | sentenced to a mandatory minimum two-year term of imprisonment. |
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18 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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