PRINTER'S NO. 3674
No. 2500 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY REICHLEY, BALDWIN, BELFANTI, BEYER, BOYD, BUNT,
CAPPELLI, CASORIO, CAWLEY, CRAHALLA, DALLY, DeLUCA,
DENLINGER, DeWEESE, DONATUCCI, FICHTER, FRANKEL, GABIG,
GEIST, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARHART,
HARRIS, HESS, KILLION, LEACH, MARKOSEK, MARSICO, S. MILLER,
O'NEILL, PALLONE, PAYNE, PETRI, PISTELLA, PYLE, REED, ROHRER,
ROSS, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, SCHRODER, SOLOBAY, SONNEY, STABACK,
R. STEVENSON, E. Z. TAYLOR, THOMAS, TIGUE, TRUE, WATSON, WILT
AND YUDICHAK, MARCH 13, 2006
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 13, 2006
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for institutional
3 sexual assault.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3124.2 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 3124.2. Institutional sexual assault.
9 (a) General rule.--Except as provided in sections 3121
10 (relating to rape), 3122.1 (relating to statutory sexual
11 assault), 3123 (relating to involuntary deviate sexual
12 intercourse), 3124.1 (relating to sexual assault) and 3125
13 (relating to aggravated indecent assault), a person who is an
14 employee or agent of the Department of Corrections or a county
15 correctional authority, youth development center, youth forestry
1 camp, State or county juvenile detention facility, [other]
2 licensed residential facility serving children and youth,
3 licensed residential facility serving care-dependent persons as
4 defined in section 2713 (relating to neglect of care-dependent
5 person) or mental health or mental retardation facility or
6 institution commits a felony of the third degree when that
7 person engages in sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse
8 or indecent contact with an inmate, detainee, patient or
9 resident.
10 (b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "agent"
11 means a person who is assigned to work in a State or county
12 correctional or juvenile detention facility, a youth development
13 center, youth forestry camp, [other] licensed residential
14 facility serving children and youth, licensed residential
15 facility serving care-dependent persons as defined in section
16 2713 or mental health or mental retardation facility or
17 institution who is employed by any State or county agency or any
18 person employed by an entity providing contract services to the
19 agency.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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