Pennsylvania HB 670: An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in abortion, providing for access to reproductive health services facilities; in particular rights and immunities, providing for action for blocking access to reproductive health services facility; and imposing penalties.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 677
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 670
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY POWELL, PIELLI, WEBSTER, SANCHEZ, HOWARD, WAXMAN,
VENKAT, SCHLOSSBERG, RABB, CERRATO, GIRAL, KHAN, STEELE,
OTTEN, D. WILLIAMS, MAYES, HOHENSTEIN, DEASY, BOYD, GREEN,
SHUSTERMAN AND KINKEAD, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in abortion, providing for access to reproductive
health services facilities; in particular rights and
immunities, providing for action for blocking access to
reproductive health services facility; and imposing
penalties.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 3207.1. Access to reproductive health services facilities.
(a) Prohibited conduct.--
(1) An individual may not, b y force, threat of force or
violent or nonviolent physical obstruction, knowingly injure,
intimidate or interfere with a person:
(i) because the person is a reproductive health
services client, provider or assistant; or
(ii) to cause the person, or a class of persons, to
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not become or not remain a reproductive health services
client, provider or assistant.
(2) An individual may not knowingly cause damage to the
property of a person because the person is a reproductive
health services client, provider or assistant or reproductive
health services facility.
(3) An individual may not knowingly use a telephone or
other communication or electronic device, or knowingly permit
the use of a telephone or other communication or electronic
device under the control of the individual, to disrupt the
normal functioning of a reproductive health services
facility.
(4) An individual may not knowingly impede or interfere
with the operation of a motor vehicle that attempts to enter,
exit or park at or nearby a reproductive health services
facility.
(b) Penalties.--An individual who is convicted for
committing a prohibited act under subsection (a) may be
sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not more than one year
or to pay a fine of not more than $3,000, or both.
(c) Considerations.--Prior to sentencing an individual
convicted for committing a prohibited act under this section,
the court shall consider any prior conviction of the individual
for a violation under this section or 18 U.S.C. § 248 (relating
to freedom of access to clinic entrances).
(d) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed to:
(1) I mpair any constitutionally protected activity or
activity otherwise protected by law.
(2) Provide an exclusive civil remedy or criminal
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penalty.
(3) Preempt a municipality from enacting an ordinance or
regulation in accordance with law to provide a remedy for the
commission of an act prohibited by this section.
(4) Interfere with the enforcement of a law or
regulation regarding the termination of a pregnancy or the
provision of other reproductive health services.
(e) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Bodily injury." Impairment of physical condition or
substantial pain.
"Person." An individual, corporation, partnership,
unincorporated association or other business entity.
"Physical obstruction." The act of making entrance to or
exit from a reproductive health services facility impassable,
unreasonably difficult or hazardous for an individual.
"Reproductive health services." Medical, surgical,
counseling or referral services which are:
(1) related to the human reproductive system, including
services related to pregnancy or the termination of a
pregnancy; and
(2) provided in a medical facility.
"Reproductive health services client, provider or assistant."
As follows:
(1) A person involved in obtaining, providing, seeking
to obtain or provide or assisting or seeking to assist
another person, at the request of the other person, to obtain
or provide services in a reproductive health services
facility.
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(2) The term includes a person that owns, operates or
seeks to own or operate a reproductive health services
facility.
"Reproductive health services facility." A facility or
medical facility, as defined in section 3203 (relating to
definitions), that provides reproductive health services.
"Serious bodily injury." Bodily injury which:
(1) creates a substantial risk of death; or
(2) causes serious, permanent disfigurement or
protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily
member or organ.
"Violent." Causing, inten