PRINTER'S NO. 2262
No. 1579 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY COSTA, RHOADES, MELLOW, SCHWARTZ, TARTAGLIONE,
WOZNIAK, MUSTO AND KITCHEN, OCTOBER 26, 2000
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 26, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for home invasion robbery.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
6 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
7 § 3504. Home invasion robbery.
8 (a) Offense defined.--A person commits an offense under this
9 section if he enters a building or occupied structure, or
10 separately secured or occupied portion thereof, with intent to:
11 (1) inflict serious bodily injury upon another;
12 (2) threaten another with or intentionally put another
13 in fear of immediate serious bodily injury;
14 (3) inflict bodily injury upon another or threaten
15 another with or intentionally put another in fear of
16 immediate bodily injury; or
17 (4) physically take or remove property from the person
1 of another by force, however slight.
2 (b) Defense.--It is a defense to prosecution under this
3 section that the building or structure was abandoned or the
4 actor is licensed or privileged to enter.
5 (c) Grading.--
6 (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), an offense
7 under this section is a felony of the second degree.
8 (2) If no individual is present at the time of entry, an
9 offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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