PRINTER'S NO. 3447
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2462
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY DELOZIER, JOZWIAK, GILLEN, GALLAGHER, MENTZER,
SCHMITT, SMITH AND STENDER, JUNE 28, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 28, 2024
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in obstructing governmental
3 operations, further providing for the offense of resisting
4 arrest or other law enforcement.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 5104 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 5104. Resisting arrest or other law enforcement.
10 A person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if, with
11 the intent of preventing a public servant from effecting a
12 lawful arrest or discharging any other duty, the person creates
13 a [substantial] risk of bodily injury to the public servant or
14 anyone else, or employs means justifying or requiring
15 [substantial] force to overcome the resistance.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.


Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 3447: 18-5104