HB 1926 - Amending Self-Protection Laws - Pennsylvania Key Vote
Timeline
- Executive Vetoed
- Nov. 27, 2010
- House Concurrence Vote Passed
- Nov. 15, 2010
- Senate Bill Passed
- Oct. 14, 2010
- House Bill Passed
- June 8, 2010
- Introduced
- Aug. 12, 2009
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Title: Amending Self-Protection Laws
Title: Amending Self-Protection Laws
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that allows for self-protection with a firearm.
Highlights:
-Defines a "residence" as "a dwelling in which a person resides, either temporarily or permanently, or visits as an invited guest" (Sec. 1). -Defines "perpetrator" as "a person against whom an actor is justified in using force" (Sec. 9). -Requires the following conditions to exist in order for an individual to believe that deadly force is required to protect themselves (Sec. 2):
- -If the perpetrator has either unlawfully entered or is entering the residence of the individual, or if the perpetrator is attempting to forcibly remove another person from the individual's residence; or
-If the individual knows or believes that the unlawful entry or act either has occurred or is occurring.
- -The individual has a right to be in the place that he or she was attacked;
-The individual believes that he or she is under the threat of death, serious injury, kidnapping, or rape; and
-The perpetrator displays or uses a firearm, or any other weapon capable of lethal use.
- -In self-protection;
-In protection of other persons;
-In protection of property;
-In law enforcement; or
-In line with the individual's responsibility for the care, discipline, or safety of others.
- -Register, update, and verify their habitual locales; and
-Appear every 30 days at an approved registration site to complete forms required by the Pennsylvania State Police, to update or verify registration information, and to be photographed at the discretion of the approved registration site.
Title: Amending Self-Protection Laws
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that allows for self-protection with a firearm.
Highlights:
-Defines a "residence" as "a dwelling in which a person resides, either temporarily or permanently, or visits as an invited guest" (Sec. 1). -Defines "perpetrator" as "a person against whom an actor is justified in using force" (Sec. 9). -Requires the following conditions to exist in order for an individual to believe that deadly force is required to protect themselves (Sec. 2):
- -If the perpetrator has either unlawfully entered or is entering the residence of the individual, or if the perpetrator is attempting to forcibly remove another person from the individual's residence; or
-If the individual knows or believes that the unlawful entry or act either has occurred or is occurring.
- -The individual has a right to be in the place that he or she was attacked;
-The individual believes that he or she is under the threat of death, serious injury, kidnapping, or rape; and
-The perpetrator displays or uses a firearm, or any other weapon capable of lethal use.
- -In self-protection;
-In protection of other persons;
-In protection of property;
-In law enforcement; or
-In line with the individual's responsibility for the care, discipline, or safety of others.
- -Register, update, and verify their habitual locales; and
-Appear every 30 days at an approved registration site to complete forms required by the Pennsylvania State Police, to update or verify registration information, and to be photographed at the discretion of the approved registration site.
Title: Amending Self-Protection Laws
- Robert E. 'Bob' Belfanti Jr. (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Matthew D. 'Matt' Bradford (PA - D)
- Joseph F. Brennan (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Michele Brooks (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael B. 'Mike' Carroll (PA - D)
- Garth David Everett (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jaret A. Gibbons (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ted Harhai (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dick Lee Hess (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- John R. Hornaman (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tom Houghton (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- William C. 'Bill' Kortz II (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mark Alfred Longietti (PA - D)
- Timothy S. 'Tim' Mahoney (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jennifer L. Mann (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara McIlvaine Smith (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Anthony J. Melio (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert Bruce 'Bob' Mensch (PA - R)
- Daniel P. 'Dan' Moul (PA - R)
- Thomas Paul 'Tom' Murt (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Bernard T. 'Bernie' O'Neill (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- John E. Pallone (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Harry A. Readshaw III (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Bradley T. 'Brad' Roae (PA - R)
- Todd A. Rock (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Steven J. 'Steve' Santarsiero (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Stanley E. 'Stan' Saylor (PA - R)
- Mario M. Scavello (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- John J. Siptroth (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- RoseMarie Swanger (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Rudolph P. 'Randy' Vulakovich (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Rosita C. Youngblood (PA - D) (Out Of Office)