Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the records of the Judiciary Committee for the 1983-1984 session, Democrats in the Majority. The Majority Chairman was Samuel Rappaport (D) and the Minority Chairman was Warren H. Spencer (R). The Majority Sub-Committee Chairman on Courts was William Wachob (D) and the Minority Sub-Committee Chairman on Courts was Terrence F. McVerry (R). The Majority Sub-Committee Chairman on Crimes and Corrections is David W. Sweet (D) and the Minority Sub-Committee Chairman on...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the records of the Judiciary Committee for the 1983-1984 session, Democrats in the Majority. The Majority Chairman was Samuel Rappaport (D) and the Minority Chairman was Warren H. Spencer (R). The Majority Sub-Committee Chairman on Courts was William Wachob (D) and the Minority Sub-Committee Chairman on Courts was Terrence F. McVerry (R). The Majority Sub-Committee Chairman on Crimes and Corrections is David W. Sweet (D) and the Minority Sub-Committee Chairman on...

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An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the sale of solidified alcohol; and providing penalties.

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An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons; permitting the use and possession of blackjacks by certain police officers, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs; further providing for an exception relating to antique firearms; and further providing for institutional vandalism.

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A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, permitting the use of suppressed voluntary admissions or confessions to impeach a defendant's credibility.

Scope and Contents An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for penalties for statutory rape; adding the offense of child molestation; providing for offenses relating to theft, fraudulent use and forgery of payment devices; providing for offenses relating to deception to receive certification as certain business enterprises; further providing for municipal regulation of firearms and ammunition; and defining the offense of unlawful duplication...

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An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for limitations of prosecutions for certain criminal offenses.

Scope and Contents An Act amending the act of May 16, 1921 (P. L. 579, No. 262), entitled, as reenacted and amended, "An act providing for the better management of the jails or county prisons in the several counties of this Commonwealth of the third, fourth, fifth classes and in certain counties of the sixth, seventh and eighth classes by creating, in such counties, a board to be known by the name and style of inspectors of the jail or county prison, with authority to appoint a warden of such prison, and by...

Scope and Contents An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for the temporary assignment of Philadelphia Municipal Court Judges, for payment by the Commonwealth of the costs and expenses incurred in trials resulting from multicounty investigating grand jury indictments and for interpreters for certain deaf persons in civil proceedings; further providing for budgets; further providing for reimbursement for certain costs; precluding a...

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An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for payment by the Commonwealth of the costs and expenses incurred in trials resulting from issuance of presentments by multicounty investigating grand juries.