PRINTER'S NO. 2417
No. 1934 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY MASLAND, EGOLF, NAILOR, VANCE, BELARDI,
BENNINGHOFF, CLARK, CORRIGAN, DALLY, FAIRCHILD, GEIST,
GORDNER, LEDERER, LEH, MARSICO, MELIO, MICHLOVIC, R. MILLER,
S. MILLER, NICKOL, ORIE, PLATTS, RUBLEY, SEYFERT, SOLOBAY,
STEELMAN, STERN, E. Z. TAYLOR, J. TAYLOR, WOGAN AND ZUG,
OCTOBER 6, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 6, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for intoxication or
3 drugged condition relating to culpability.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 308 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 308. Intoxication or drugged condition.
9 Neither voluntary intoxication nor voluntary drugged
10 condition is a defense to a criminal charge, nor may evidence of
11 such conditions be introduced to negative the element of intent
12 of the offense[, except that evidence of such intoxication or
13 drugged condition of the defendant may be offered by the
14 defendant whenever it is relevant to reduce murder from a higher
15 degree to a lower degree of murder].
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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