Bill Text: PA SB605 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for the offense of robbery.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2010-03-16 - Act No. 11 [SB605 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB605-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 655
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 605 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY WAUGH, ALLOWAY, BOSCOLA, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, COSTA, FOLMER, FONTANA, LOGAN, O'PAKE, PICCOLA, PILEGGI, RAFFERTY, STACK, TARTAGLIONE, WASHINGTON, D. WHITE, WONDERLING AND VOGEL, MARCH 12, 2009
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 12, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of
robbery.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3701 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 3701. Robbery.
(a) Offense defined.--
(1) A person is guilty of robbery if, in the course of
committing a theft, he:
(i) inflicts serious bodily injury upon another;
(ii) threatens another with or intentionally puts
him in fear of immediate serious bodily injury;
(iii) commits or threatens immediately to commit any
felony of the first or second degree;
(iv) inflicts bodily injury upon another or
threatens another with or intentionally puts him in fear
of immediate bodily injury; [or]
(v) physically takes or removes property from the
person of another by force however slight[.]; or
(vi) takes or removes the money of a financial
institution without the permission of the financial
institution by making a demand of an employee of the
financial institution orally or in writing with the
intent to deprive the financial institution thereof.
(2) An act shall be deemed "in the course of committing
a theft" if it occurs in an attempt to commit theft or in
flight after the attempt or commission.
(3) For purposes of this subsection, a "financial
institution" means a bank, trust company, savings trust,
credit union or similar institution.
(b) Grading.--Robbery under subsection (a)(1)(iv) and (vi)
is a felony of the second degree; robbery under subsection (a)
(1)(v) is a felony of the third degree; otherwise, it is a
felony of the first degree.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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