PRINTER'S NO. 420
No. 391 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, PITTS, BARLEY, FARGO, BUNT, CARONE, TIGUE,
NYCE, M. N. WRIGHT, ALLEN, FLICK, KING, SAURMAN, VEON,
DeLUCA, CLARK, MASLAND, HESS, WOGAN, STERN, TOMLINSON,
HUTCHINSON, COY AND ARMSTRONG, FEBRUARY 10, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 10, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," providing for additional
21 duties of the Department of Corrections in relation to prison
22 inmate medical needs.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
26 as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
27 section to read:
1 Section 903-B. Payment of Inmate Medical Needs.--(a) The
2 Department of Corrections shall devise and implement a program
3 whereby inmates of State and county correctional institutions
4 who have medical insurance shall pay for their own medical needs
5 through that insurance.
6 (b) This program shall be contained in regulations
7 promulgated by the department.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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