PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2975
PRINTER'S NO. 3004
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2227
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY SHUSTERMAN, WEBSTER, KHAN, KINSEY, MIHALEK, HILL-
EVANS, PROBST, BRIGGS, HOHENSTEIN, SCHLOSSBERG, CURRY,
PARKER, McANDREW, DONAHUE, SANCHEZ, MERSKI, CERRATO, DALEY
AND HANBIDGE, APRIL 17, 2024
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, APRIL 29, 2024
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in human trafficking, further
providing for victim protection during prosecution.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3019(b) and (d)(1), (D) AND (F) of Title
18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to
read:
§ 3019. Victim protection during prosecution.
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(b) Affirmative defense.--[An individual who is charged with
any violation under section 5902 (relating to prostitution and
related offenses) may offer the defense at trial that he engaged
in the conduct charged because he was compelled to do so by
coercion or the use of or a threat to use unlawful force against
his person or the person of another, which a person of
reasonable firmness in his situation would have been unable to
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