Senate Judiciary Committee
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | 10 a.m.
Senate Chamber (and Virtual Participation)
SB 521 – Mensch – Amends Section 7507.1 of Title 18 to increase the grading for a conviction of invasion of privacy if the offender is a teacher and the victim is a student or if the offender is an adult and the victim is a minor.
HB 184 – Keefer – Amends Section 2505 of Title 18 by requiring the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing to provide a sentencing enhancement for a conviction of causing a suicide or for aiding or soliciting a person to die by suicide when the person dying by suicide is either under 18 years of age, has an intellectual disability or has autism spectrum disorder.
HB 951 – Rozzi – Amends Title 42 (Judicial Code) to provide a two-year window during which civil lawsuits arising out of childhood sexual abuse may be brought notwithstanding an otherwise applicable statute of limitations defense; and to state explicitly that current waivers of sovereign and governmental immunity for civil actions alleging sexual abuse of a minor shall apply both prospectively and retroactively. Amendment to be offered by Sen. Baker.