HB 910

                                                   PRINTER'S NO.   951
                 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                     HOUSE BILL
                     No. 910
                                           Session of
                                             2025
 INTRODUCED BY SCHEUREN, STAATS, HANBIDGE, M. BROWN, KUZMA, COOK,
    PICKETT, KRUPA, ROAE, KENYATTA, ROWE, KAUFFMAN, ZIMMERMAN,
    CURRY, KUTZ, NEILSON, GROVE, LABS, STEHR, M. MACKENZIE,
    JAMES, LEADBETER, RIGBY, SCHMITT, KLUNK AND BERNSTINE,
    MARCH 13, 2025
 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 13, 2025
                                AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2    Consolidated Statutes, in offenses against the family,
3    further providing for the offense of dealing in infant
4    children.
5    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7    Section 1.    Section 4305 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 4305.   Dealing in infant children.
10    (a)    Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a [misdemeanor]
11 felony of the first degree if he deals in humanity, by trading,
12 bartering, buying, selling, or dealing in infant children.
13    (b)    Exclusion.--This section shall not apply to an otherwise
14 legal surrogacy or adoption.
15    (c)    Definitions.--As used in this section, the term "infant
16 child" means a child one year of age or younger.
17    Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.