SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 3002, 3151 PRINTER'S NO. 4212
No. 2272 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY TANGRETTI, BELFANTI, CASORIO, BELARDI, GIGLIOTTI,
WOJNAROSKI, CAWLEY, CLARK, COSTA, SAINATO, SHANER, SOLOBAY,
STABACK, TIGUE, READSHAW, RAYMOND, MICOZZIE, HARHAI,
KIRKLAND, LAUGHLIN, GODSHALL, GEIST, FRANKEL, VAN HORNE,
CORRIGAN, WALKO, TRELLO, STEELMAN, MICHLOVIC, RAMOS, HORSEY
AND M. COHEN, FEBRUARY 15, 2000
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, IN SENATE, NOVEMBER 20, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for retaliation
3 against witness or, victim OR PARTY. <--
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4953 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4953. Retaliation against [witness or victim] witness, victim or
9 party.
10 (a) Offense defined.--A person commits an offense if he
11 harms another by any unlawful act or engages in a course of
12 conduct or repeatedly commits acts which alarm or seriously <--
13 annoy THREATEN another in retaliation for anything lawfully done <--
14 in the capacity of witness [or], victim or a party in a civil <--
15 matter. OR A PARTY IN A CIVIL MATTER. <--
16 (b) Grading.--The offense is a felony of the third degree if
1 the retaliation is accomplished by any of the means specified in
2 section 4952(b)(1) through (5) (relating to intimidation of
3 witnesses or victims). Otherwise the offense is a misdemeanor of
4 the second degree.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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