HB 2339 — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for the offense of aggravated assault.

PRINTER'S NO.   3113

                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 2339
                                                  Session of
                                                    2026

     INTRODUCED BY NEILSON, HILL-EVANS, GIRAL, KUZMA, CERRATO,
        GUZMAN, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, McNEILL, HARKINS, GALLAGHER,
        DOUGHERTY, MALAGARI, FLEMING, MAYES, INGLIS, CIRESI AND
        GILLEN, MARCH 31, 2026

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 31, 2026


                                       AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for the
 3      offense of aggravated assault.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.      Section 2702(c)(27) of Title 18 of the
 7   Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
 8   § 2702.    Aggravated assault.
 9      * * *
10      (c)    Officers, employees, etc., enumerated.--The officers,
11   agents, employees and other persons referred to in subsection
12   (a) shall be as follows:
13             * * *
14             (27)    A teaching staff member, a school board member or
15      other employee, including a student employee, of any
16      elementary or secondary publicly funded educational
17      institution, any elementary or secondary private school
 1    licensed by the Department of Education or any elementary or
 2    secondary parochial school while acting in the scope of his
 3    or her employment or because of his or her employment
 4    relationship to the school. This paragraph includes a school
 5    crossing guard of a school district or local police
 6    department, while acting in the scope of the individual's
 7    employment or because of the individual's employment
 8    relationship to the school.
 9        * * *
10    Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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