PRINTER'S NO. 614
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
540
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY CRUZ, READSHAW, KINSEY, D. COSTA, BISHOP, MILLARD,
ROZZI, McNEILL, BARRAR, TALLMAN, KIRKLAND, F. KELLER,
MAHONEY, MURT, MOUL AND WATSON, FEBRUARY 23, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in authorized disposition of
offenders, further providing for sentence for murder, murder
of unborn child and murder of law enforcement officer; and,
in crimes against unborn child, further providing for the
offenses of murder of unborn child and voluntary manslaughter
of unborn child.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1102(a) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 1102. Sentence for murder, murder of unborn child and murder
of law enforcement officer.
(a) First degree.--
[(1)] Except as provided under section 1102.1 (relating
to sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder, murder
of an unborn child and murder of a law enforcement officer),
a person who has been convicted of a murder of the first
degree [or], of murder of a law enforcement officer of the
first degree or of murder of an unborn child of the first
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