PRINTER'S NO. 4863
No. 3057 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY O'BRIEN, BOYD, CAPPELLI, CRAHALLA, DALLY,
GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, HARPER, HERSHEY, HICKERNELL,
W. KELLER, McCALL, PYLE, SAYLOR, SIPTROTH, E. Z. TAYLOR AND
TRUE, OCTOBER 20, 2006
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 20, 2006
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 31, 1919 (P.L.356, No.170), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act authorizing courts of record to remove
3 convicts and persons confined in jails, workhouses,
4 reformatories, reform or industrial schools, penitentiaries,
5 prisons, houses of correction or any other penal
6 institutions, who are seriously ill, to other institutions;
7 and providing penalties for breach of prison," further
8 providing for removal of certain convicts who are seriously
9 ill.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Section 1 of the act of May 31, 1919 (P.L.356,
13 No.170), entitled "An act authorizing courts of record to remove
14 convicts and persons confined in jails, workhouses,
15 reformatories, reform or industrial schools, penitentiaries,
16 prisons, houses of correction or any other penal institutions,
17 who are seriously ill, to other institutions; and providing
18 penalties for breach of prison," amended January 26, 1966 (1965
19 P.L.1593, No.561), is amended to read:
20 Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any convict or
1 person is confined in any jail, workhouse, reformatory, [or]
2 reform or industrial school, penitentiary, prison, house of
3 correction or [any] other penal institution, under conviction or
4 sentence of a court, or is so confined while awaiting trial or
5 confined for any other reason or purpose, and it is shown to a
6 court of record by due proof that such convict or person is
7 seriously ill, and that it is necessary that he or she be
8 removed from [such] the penal institution, the court shall have
9 power to [modify its sentence, impose a suitable sentence, or
10 modify the order of confinement for trial, as the case may be,
11 and] provide for the confinement or care of [such] the convict
12 or person in some other suitable institution where proper
13 treatment may be administered. Upon the recovery of [such] the
14 person, the court shall recommit him or her to the institution
15 from which he or she was removed.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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