PRINTER'S NO. 416
No. 371 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY BROWNE, FONTANA, RAFFERTY, RHOADES, COSTA, O'PAKE, WASHINGTON AND PIPPY, MARCH 13, 2007
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 13, 2007
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania 2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for willful failure 3 to pay support order. 4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 5 hereby enacts as follows: 6 Section 1. Section 4354(a) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania 7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: 8 § 4354. Willful failure to pay support order. 9 (a) Offense defined.--An individual who willfully fails to 10 comply with a support order of a court of this Commonwealth when 11 the individual has the financial ability to comply with the 12 support order commits a [summary offense] misdemeanor of the 13 third degree. 14 * * * 15 Section 2. The amendment of 23 Pa.C.S. § 4354(a) shall apply 16 to offenses committed on or after the effective date of this 17 section. 18 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days. A10L23MSP/20070S0371B0416