PRINTER'S NO. 650
No. 548 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY STERN, YOUNGBLOOD, GEIST, WILT, WATSON, PHILLIPS,
THOMAS, HERMAN, McILHATTAN, SOLOBAY, HENNESSEY, HESS,
READSHAW, DeLUCA, HASAY, R. MILLER, GILLESPIE, S. MILLER,
DIVEN, RUBLEY, DALEY, KOTIK, MAJOR, ARMSTRONG, E. Z. TAYLOR,
HUTCHINSON, HERSHEY, SATHER, BARD, CRUZ, HARHAI, KIRKLAND,
SCAVELLO, HORSEY, BROWNE, PICKETT AND LEWIS, MARCH 3, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 3, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for fingerprint
3 fee.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 1725.5. Fingerprint fee.
9 (a) Imposition.--A person who pleads guilty or nolo
10 contendere to or receives Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition
11 or is convicted of a crime as defined in 18 Pa.C.S. § 106
12 (relating to classes of offenses) and has fingerprints taken
13 pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S. § 3929 (relating to retail theft), 3929.1
14 (relating to library theft) or 9112 (relating to mandatory
15 fingerprinting) shall, in addition to any fines, penalties or
16 costs, pay a fingerprint fee which shall include, but is not
1 limited to, the actual cost of having the fingerprints taken.
2 (b) Amount of fee.--The director of the unit of a criminal
3 justice agency which took the fingerprints shall determine the
4 actual cost of the fingerprint services provided and shall
5 transmit a statement of services rendered to the court. The
6 court may set the fee at an amount above the actual cost.
7 (c) Disposition of fees.--Fees collected pursuant to this
8 section shall be used solely for the operation and maintenance
9 of fingerprint services provided by a criminal justice agency.
10 (d) Other laws.--The fingerprint fee shall be imposed
11 notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary.
12 (e) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "criminal
13 justice agency" shall have the same meaning given to it in 18
14 Pa.C.S. § 9102 (relating to definitions).
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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