PRINTER'S NO. 2619
No. 2080 Session of 1978
INTRODUCED BY RHODES, SCIRICA, WHITE, W. D. HUTCHINSON, WAGNER,
DUMAS, WIGGINS, MILLER, RICHARDSON, FISHER AND GREENLEAF,
FEBRUARY 21, 1978
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 21, 1978
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
2 act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
3 welfare laws of the Commonwealth," further providing for
4 child welfare services.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Clause (2) of subsection (a) of section 704.1,
8 act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the "Public
9 Welfare Code," added July 9, 1976 (P.L.846, No.148), is amended
10 to read:
11 Section 704.1. Payments to Counties for Services to
12 Children.--(a) The department shall reimburse county
13 institution districts or their successors for expenditures
14 incurred by them in the performance of their obligation pursuant
15 to this act and the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333),
16 known as the "Juvenile Act," in the following percentages:
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18 (2) No less than seventy-five percent and no more than
1 ninety percent of the reasonable cost including staff costs of
2 child welfare services, informal adjustment services provided
3 pursuant to section 8 of the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464,
4 No.333), known as the "Juvenile Act," and such [services]
5 community based services operated by private or public agencies,
6 or the court, approved by the department, including but not
7 limited to, foster home care, group home care, shelter care,
8 community residential care providing services to no more than
9 fifteen children, youth service bureaus, day treatment centers
10 and service to children in their own home and any other
11 alternative treatment programs approved by the department. Said
12 services are not to be subject to the county agency, the county
13 executive, nor are the employes to be subject to the agency,
14 Commonwealth or Federally approved merit system as a condition
15 of reimbursement.
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17 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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