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PRINTER'S NO. 1847
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1562
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY SCOTT AND SANCHEZ, JUNE 5, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 5, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in sports and amusements, repealing
provisions relating to fortune telling.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7104 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is repealed:
[§ 7104. Fortune telling.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of
the third degree if he pretends for gain or lucre, to tell
fortunes or predict future events, by cards, tokens, the
inspection of the head or hands of any person, or by the age of
anyone, or by consulting the movements of the heavenly bodies,
or in any other manner, or for gain or lucre, pretends to effect
any purpose by spells, charms, necromancy, or incantation, or
advises the taking or administering of what are commonly called
love powders or potions, or prepares the same to be taken or
administered, or publishes by card, circular, sign, newspaper or
other means that he can predict future events, or for gain or
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lucre, pretends to enable anyone to get or to recover stolen
property, or to tell where lost property is, or to stop bad
luck, or to give good luck, or to put bad luck on a person or
animal, or to stop or injure the business or health of a person
or shorten his life, or to give success in business, enterprise,
speculation, and games of chance, or to win the affection of a
person, or to make one person marry another, or to induce a
person to make or alter a will, or to tell where money or other
property is hidden, or to tell where to dig for treasure, or to
make a person to dispose of property in favor of another.
(b) Advertising as evidence.--Any publication contrary to
this section may be given in evidence to sustain the indictment.
(c) Competency of witnesses.--Any person whose fortune may
have been told shall be a competent witness against the person
charged with violating this section.]
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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