PRINTER'S NO. 685
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
736
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY BOYLE, KINSEY, MADDEN, HOHENSTEIN, GUENST, BENHAM,
HILL-EVANS, SAMUELSON, SANCHEZ, GIRAL, SCHLOSSBERG, CIRESI,
FLEMING, STURLA, FREEMAN, OTTEN, O'MARA AND TAKAC,
MARCH 28, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 28, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in assault, further providing for the offense of
ethnic intimidation; and making an editorial change.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2710 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, amended December 3, 2002 (P.L.1176,
No.143), declared unconstitutional, 936 A.2d 188 (Pa.
Commonwealth 2007), affirmed, 597 Pa. 371 (2008), is reenacted
and amended to read:
§ 2710. [Ethnic] Unlawful intimidation.
(a) Offense defined.--A person commits the offense of
[ethnic] unlawful intimidation if, with malicious intention
toward the actual or perceived race, color, religion [or],
national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual
orientation, gender or gender identity of another individual or
group of individuals, he commits an offense under any other
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