PRINTER'S NO. 1232
No. 1091 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY KOSINSKI, HALUSKA, PRESSMANN, TIGUE, STABACK,
LEVDANSKY, DUFFY, PISTELLA, OLASZ, DONATUCCI, COHEN, KENNEY,
SEMMEL, WOGAN, BIRMELIN, BOYES, JOHNSON, HERMAN, RAYMOND,
GODSHALL, MERRY, HERSHEY, FLICK AND BUNT, APRIL 22, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 22, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing
3 exclusions from exemptions from process.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 8127 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 8127. Personal earnings exempt from process.
9 The wages, salaries and commissions of individuals shall
10 while in the hands of the employer be exempt from any
11 attachment, execution or other process except upon an action or
12 proceeding:
13 (1) For support.
14 (2) For board [for four weeks or less] or rent for
15 residential purposes for which the court may attach no more
16 than 50% of the wages of the judgment debtor.
17 (3) Under the act of August 7, 1963 (P.L.549, No.290),
1 referred to as the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance
2 Agency Act.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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