PRINTER'S NO. 461

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No. 414 Session of 2007

        INTRODUCED BY BROWNE, BOSCOLA, WONDERLING, ARMSTRONG, RAFFERTY,
           STOUT AND VANCE, 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 award of
     3     custody, partial custody or visitation.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 5303(b.2) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 5303.  Award of custody, partial custody or visitation.
     9     * * *
    10     (b.2)  Parent convicted of murder.--No court shall award
    11  custody, partial custody or visitation to or allow contact or
    12  communication by a parent who has been convicted of murder under
    13  18 Pa.C.S. § 2502(a) (relating to murder of the first degree) of
    14  the other parent of the child who is the subject of the order[,
    15  unless the child is of suitable age and consents to the order].
    16     * * *
    17     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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