PENNSYLVANIA, January 31 - PRINTER'S NO. 245

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

135

Session of

2023

INTRODUCED BY STREET, HUGHES, FONTANA, BARTOLOTTA, KEARNEY,

SCHWANK, COLLETT, CAPPELLETTI, TARTAGLIONE, L. WILLIAMS, KANE

AND SAVAL, JANUARY 31, 2023

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 31, 2023

AN ACT

Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 42 (Judiciary and

Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in authorized disposition

of offenders, further providing for sentence of persons under

the age of 18 for murder, murder of an unborn child and

murder of a law enforcement officer; in sentencing, further

providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses;

in miscellaneous provisions, establishing the Life with

Parole Reinvestment Fund; and, in Pennsylvania Board of

Probation and Parole, further providing for parole power.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 1102.1(a), (b), (c)(1) and (d)

introductory paragraph of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes are amended and the section is amended by

adding a subsection to read:

§ 1102.1. Sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder,

murder of an unborn child and murder of a law

enforcement officer.

(a) First degree murder.--[A] Except as provided under

subsection (a.1), a person who has been convicted after June 24,

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