PRINTER'S NO. 4042
No. 2986 Session of 1994
INTRODUCED BY MAYERNIK, JUNE 28, 1994
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 28, 1994
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for aggravated
3 assault on sheriffs and deputy sheriffs.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2702 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2702. Aggravated assault.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of aggravated
10 assault if he:
11 (1) attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another,
12 or causes such injury intentionally, knowingly or recklessly
13 under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the
14 value of human life;
15 (2) attempts to cause or intentionally, knowingly or
16 recklessly causes serious bodily injury to a sheriff, deputy
17 sheriff, police officer, firefighter, county adult probation
18 or parole officer, county juvenile probation or parole
1 officer or an agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation
2 and Parole in the performance of duty or to an employee of an
3 agency, company or other entity engaged in public
4 transportation, while in the performance of duty;
5 (3) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
6 causes bodily injury to a sheriff, deputy sheriff, police
7 officer, firefighter or county adult probation or parole
8 officer, county juvenile probation or parole officer or an
9 agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole in
10 the performance of duty;
11 (4) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
12 causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon; or
13 (5) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
14 causes bodily injury to a teaching staff member, school board
15 member, other employee or student of any elementary or
16 secondary publicly-funded educational institution, any
17 elementary or secondary private school licensed by the
18 Department of Education or any elementary or secondary
19 parochial school while acting in the scope of his or her
20 employment or because of his or her employment relationship
21 to the school.
22 (b) Grading.--Aggravated assault under subsection (a)(1) and
23 (2) is a felony of the first degree. Aggravated assault under
24 subsection (a)(3), (4) and (5) is a felony of the second degree.
25 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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