PRINTER'S NO. 3767
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2584
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY LABS, MARCELL, MAJOR, MIHALEK, TOMLINSON, GREINER,
GUENST, KENYATTA, GILLEN AND SCHEUREN, OCTOBER 21, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 21, 2024
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for the
3 offense of stalking.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2709.1(a) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2709.1. Stalking.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person commits the crime of stalking
10 when the person either:
11 (1) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits
12 acts toward another person, including following the person
13 without proper authority, [under circumstances which
14 demonstrate either an intent to place such other person in
15 reasonable fear of bodily injury or to cause substantial
16 emotional distress to such other person; or] while knowingly
17 or recklessly:
18 (i) placing such other person in reasonable fear of
 1 bodily injury; or
2 (ii) causing substantial emotional distress to such
3 other person; or
4 (2) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly
5 communicates to another person [under circumstances which
6 demonstrate or communicate either an intent to place such
7 other person in reasonable fear of bodily injury or to cause
8 substantial emotional distress to such other person.] while
9 knowingly or recklessly:
10 (i) placing such other person in reasonable fear of
11 bodily injury; or
12 (ii) causing substantial emotional distress to such
13 other person.
14 * * *
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 3767: 18-2709.1(a)