THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY DERMODY, WALKO, BELFANTI, STABACK, ROAE, CARROLL, LONGIETTI, McGEEHAN, MELIO, READSHAW, SANTONI, HARKINS, WHITE, HARHAI, HOUGHTON, KORTZ, JOSEPHS, YOUNGBLOOD AND SWANGER, JULY 22, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JULY 22, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of

aggravated assault.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 2702(d) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:

§ 2702.  Aggravated assault.

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(d)  Definitions.--As used in this section, the following

words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this

subsection:

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"Public utility employee or an employee of an electric

cooperative."  The term includes all of the following:

(1)  An employee of a public utility.

(2)  An employee of a municipally owned utility.

(3)  An employee of a cable television company.

(4)  An employee of an electric distribution company.

(5)  An employee of an electric generation company.

(6)  An independent contractor or an employee of an

independent contractor working on behalf of a cable

television company, a public utility, a municipally owned

utility, an electric distribution company, an electric

generation company or an electric cooperative.

(7)  An employee of a telecommunications carrier.

(8)  An independent contractor or an employee of an

independent contractor working on behalf of a

telecommunications carrier.

(9)  An employee of a telephone or telecommunications

cooperative.

(10)  An independent contractor or an employee of an

independent contractor working on behalf of a telephone or

telecommunications cooperative.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.