PENNSYLVANIA, June 15 - PRINTER'S NO. 1815

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

1379

Session of

2026

INTRODUCED BY CAPPELLETTI, HUGHES, HAYWOOD, FONTANA, COSTA,

VOGEL, SCHWANK, SAVAL, KANE AND L. WILLIAMS, JUNE 15, 2026

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JUNE 15, 2026

AN ACT

Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in post-trial matters,

further providing for scope of subchapter and for eligibility

for relief, providing for postconviction resentencing relief

for defendant survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence

or human trafficking and further providing for jurisdiction

and proceedings; and, in sentencing, further providing for

sentencing procedure for murder of the first degree and

providing for criminal prosecutions involving defendant

survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence or human

trafficking.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 9542 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 9542. Scope of subchapter.

This subchapter provides for an action by which persons

convicted of crimes they did not commit and persons serving

illegal sentences may obtain collateral relief. This subchapter

also provides for an action by which certain survivors of

domestic violence, sexual violence or human trafficking may

obtain postconviction resentencing relief. The action

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