PRINTER'S NO. 449
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 494
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY COLEMAN, DUSH AND VOGEL, MARCH 21, 2025
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 21, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in sexual offenses, further providing
3 for the offense of statutory sexual assault.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3122.1 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 3122.1. Statutory sexual assault.
9 (a) Felony of the second degree.--Except as provided in
10 section 3121 (relating to rape), a person commits a felony of
11 the second degree when that person engages in sexual intercourse
12 with a complainant to whom the person is not married who is
13 under the age of [16] 18 years and that person is either:
14 (1) four years older but less than eight years older
15 than the complainant; or
16 (2) eight years older but less than 11 years older than
17 the complainant.
18 (b) Felony of the first degree.--A person commits a felony
19 of the first degree when that person engages in sexual
1 intercourse with a complainant under the age of [16] 18 years
2 and that person is 11 or more years older than the complainant
3 and the complainant and the person are not married to each
4 other.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0449: 18-3122.1