PRINTER'S NO. 461
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 212
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY COLLETT, STREET, HUGHES, COMITTA, KEARNEY,
HAYWOOD, SCHWANK, KANE, COSTA, SAVAL, SANTARSIERO AND
L. WILLIAMS, 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 general provisions relating to
3 offenses involving danger to the person, further providing
4 for definitions.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. The definition of "serious provocation" in
8 section 2301 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
9 Statutes is amended to read:
10 § 2301. Definitions.
11 Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent
12 provisions of this article which are applicable to specific
13 chapters or other provisions of this article, the following
14 words and phrases, when used in this article shall have, unless
15 the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to
16 them in this section:
17 * * *
18 "Serious provocation." Conduct sufficient to excite an
1 intense passion in a reasonable person. The term does not
2 include the discovery, knowledge or potential disclosure of a
3 victim's actual or perceived gender identity or expression or
4 sexual orientation, including circumstances in which the victim
5 made an unwanted nonforcible romantic or sexual advance toward
6 the defendant or if the defendant and victim had a romantic or
7 sexual relationship.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0461: 18-2301