HB 523 — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in obstructing governmental operations, further providing for the offense of resisting arrest or other law enforcement.
Congress · introduced 2025-02-10
Latest action: — Referred to JUDICIARY, Feb. 10, 2025
Sponsors
- Sheryl M. Delozier (R, PA-88) — sponsor · 2025-02-10
- Mike Jones (R, PA-93) — cosponsor · 2025-02-10
- Michael Stender (R, PA-108) — cosponsor · 2025-02-10
Action timeline
- · house — Referred to JUDICIARY, Feb. 10, 2025
Text versions
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Bill text
Printer's No. 0517 · 1,380 characters · source document
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PRINTER'S NO. 517
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 523
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY DELOZIER, M. JONES AND STENDER, FEBRUARY 10, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 10, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in obstructing governmental
3 operations, further providing for the offense of resisting
4 arrest or other law enforcement.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 5104 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 5104. Resisting arrest or other law enforcement.
10 A person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if, with
11 the intent of preventing a public servant from effecting a
12 lawful arrest or discharging any other duty, the person creates
13 a [substantial] risk of bodily injury to the public servant or
14 anyone else, or employs means justifying or requiring
15 [substantial] force to overcome the resistance.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.Connected on the graph
Inbound (3)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-10 | Mike Jones | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-10 | Michael Stender | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-10 | Sheryl M. Delozier | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Outbound (1)
| date | type | to | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee | — | pa-leg |
The full graph
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Committees
→ Referred to committee 1 edge
Legislation
← Cosponsored bill 2 edges
- Mike Jones · cosponsor · 2025-02-10
- Michael Stender · cosponsor · 2025-02-10
← Sponsored bill 1 edge
- Sheryl M. Delozier · sponsor · 2025-02-10
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 | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheryl M. Delozier (R, state_lower PA-88) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Michael Stender (R, state_lower PA-108) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Mike Jones (R, state_lower PA-93) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
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
Activity
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- 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee · pa-leg
- 2025-02-10 · cosponsored by Michael Stender (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-10 · sponsored by Sheryl M. Delozier (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-10 · cosponsored by Mike Jones (cosponsor) · sponsorship