Bill Text: PA HB1506 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In falsification and intimidation, further providing for the offense of false reports to law enforcement authorities.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-10 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB1506 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1506-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1828
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1506 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY MURT, DONATUCCI, FARRY, GEIST, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GROVE, HORNAMAN, MILNE, MOUL, PETRI, TALLMAN AND VULAKOVICH, MAY 10, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MAY 10, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in falsification and intimidation,
further providing for the offense of false reports to law
enforcement authorities.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4906(c) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
§ 4906. False reports to law enforcement authorities.
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(c) Grading.--
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(3) Where the information provided relates to an offense
graded as a felony, a person commits a felony of the third
degree if he:
(i) knowingly gives false information to law
enforcement authorities with intent to implicate another;
(ii) reports to law enforcement authorities an
offense within their concern knowing that it did not
occur; or
(iii) pretends to furnish such authorities with
information relating to an offense when he knows he has
no information relating to such offense.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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