HB 1097 — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, providing for the offense of use of live pigeons for target.

Congress · introduced 2025-04-01

Latest action: — Referred to JUDICIARY, April 1, 2025

Action timeline

2025-04-01 · house — Referred to JUDICIARY, April 1, 2025

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Printer's No. 1211 · 2,233 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.   1211

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 1097
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY WARREN, M. JONES, VENKAT, PIELLI, SANCHEZ,
        McNEILL, KHAN, HILL-EVANS, GIRAL, ISAACSON, HOWARD, GUENST,
        HADDOCK, SAMUELSON, HOHENSTEIN, CIRESI, FIEDLER, SHUSTERMAN,
        FREEMAN, McANDREW, POWELL, SAPPEY, ABNEY, D. MILLER, OTTEN,
        DEASY, CERRATO, MALAGARI, HOGAN, BIZZARRO, FRANKEL, SCHWEYER,
        SALISBURY, VITALI AND CARROLL, APRIL 1, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 1, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in riot, disorderly conduct and
 3      related offenses, providing for the offense of use of live
 4      pigeons for target.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.    Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 8   Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 9   § 5545.1.   Use of live pigeons for target.
10      (a)   Offense defined.--A person commits a summary offense if
11   the person willfully organizes, operates, conducts or knowingly
12   permits a premises to be owned, leased or used for a contest
13   event in which live pigeons are used as targets for either
14   amusement or as a test of skill in marksmanship that are
15   launched or otherwise immediately presented to the shooter
16   either manually or with electronic or mechanical assistance from
17   a fixed location or locations within a predefined shooting
1   field.
2      (b)   Applicability.--Nothing under this section shall be
3   construed to apply to activity which is authorized or permitted
4   under 34 Pa.C.S. (relating to game), the training of dogs for
5   activity which is authorized or permitted under 34 Pa.C.S. or a
6   special permit under 58 Pa. Code Ch. 147 (relating to special
7   permits).
8      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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date	type	to	amount	role	source
—	referred_to_committee	Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee	—		pa-leg

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Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Voted	Score
1	Perry S. Warren (D, state_lower PA-31)	sponsor	—	5
2	Abigail Salisbury (D, state_lower PA-34)	cosponsor	—	1
3	Aerion Abney (D, state_lower PA-19)	cosponsor	—	1
4	Andre D. Carroll (D, state_lower PA-201)	cosponsor	—	1
5	Arvind Venkat (D, state_lower PA-30)	cosponsor	—	1
6	Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, state_lower PA-153)	cosponsor	—	1
7	Brandon J. Markosek (D, state_lower PA-25)	cosponsor	—	1
8	Brian Munroe (D, state_lower PA-144)	cosponsor	—	1
9	Carol Hill-Evans (D, state_lower PA-95)	cosponsor	—	1
10	Chris Pielli (D, state_lower PA-156)	cosponsor	—	1
11	Christina D. Sappey (D, state_lower PA-158)	cosponsor	—	1
12	Dan Frankel (D, state_lower PA-23)	cosponsor	—	1
13	Daniel J. Deasy (D, state_lower PA-27)	cosponsor	—	1
14	Danielle Friel Otten (D, state_lower PA-155)	cosponsor	—	1
15	Elizabeth Fiedler (D, state_lower PA-184)	cosponsor	—	1
16	Greg Vitali (D, state_lower PA-166)	cosponsor	—	1
17	Heather Boyd (D, state_lower PA-163)	cosponsor	—	1
18	Jeanne McNeill (D, state_lower PA-133)	cosponsor	—	1
19	Jen Mazzocco (D, state_lower PA-42)	cosponsor	—	1
20	Jim Haddock (D, state_lower PA-118)	cosponsor	—	1
21	Joe Ciresi (D, state_lower PA-146)	cosponsor	—	1
22	Joe Hogan (R, state_lower PA-142)	cosponsor	—	1
23	Joe McAndrew (D, state_lower PA-32)	cosponsor	—	1
24	Jose Giral (D, state_lower PA-180)	cosponsor	—	1
25	Joseph C. Hohenstein (D, state_lower PA-177)	cosponsor	—	1

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0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee · pa-leg

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