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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 3940

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2631 Session of 2008


        INTRODUCED BY CREIGHTON, BEYER, BOYD, CARROLL, CUTLER,
           DENLINGER, GEIST, GOODMAN, KOTIK, KULA, MAHONEY, MARKOSEK,
           MOUL, MOYER, MYERS, PYLE, READSHAW, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH,
           SOLOBAY, TANGRETTI, THOMAS, J. WHITE AND SWANGER,
           JUNE 13, 2008

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
           JUNE 13, 2008

                                     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," increasing the maximum
     4     annual State grants to county institution districts or their
     5     successors for cost of child welfare programs; further
     6     providing for the payment of the costs and expenses for the
     7     care of the child; and placing a duty upon the Auditor
     8     General to ascertain and certify certain costs.

     9     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    10  hereby enacts as follows:
    11     Section 1.  Section 704.1(a)(4) and (g) of the act of June
    12  13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code,
    13  amended or added July 9, 1976 (P.L.846, No.148) and August 5,
    14  1991 (P.L.315, No.30), are amended to read:
    15     Section 704.1.  Payments to Counties for Services to
    16  Children.--(a)  The department shall reimburse county
    17  institution districts or their successors for expenditures
    18  incurred by them in the performance of their obligation pursuant
    19  to this act and the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333),

     1  known as the "Juvenile Act," in the following percentages:
     2     * * *
     3     (4)  [Fifty percent] Ninety percent of the actual cost of
     4  care and support of a child placed by a county child welfare
     5  agency or a child committed by a court pursuant to the act of
     6  December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333), known as the "Juvenile
     7  Act," to the legal custody of a public or private agency
     8  approved or operated by the department other than those services
     9  described in clause (2). The Auditor General shall ascertain the
    10  actual expense for fiscal year 1974-1975 and each year
    11  thereafter by the Department of Public Welfare for each of the
    12  several counties and each city of the first class whose children
    13  resident within the county or city of the first class directly
    14  received the benefit of the Commonwealth's expenditure. The
    15  Auditor General shall also ascertain for each Commonwealth
    16  institution or facility rendering services to delinquent or
    17  deprived children the actual average daily cost of providing
    18  said services. The Auditor General shall certify to each county
    19  and city of the first class the allocated Commonwealth
    20  expenditures incurred on behalf of its children and notify the
    21  Secretary of Public Welfare and each county and city of the
    22  first class of same.
    23     * * *
    24     (g)  The department shall, within forty-five days of each
    25  calendar quarter, pay [fifty percent] ninety percent of the
    26  department's share of the county institution district's or its
    27  successor's estimated expenditures for that quarter.
    28     * * *
    29     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

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