PRINTER'S NO.  2846

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

2047

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY D. O'BRIEN, BISHOP, MURT, LONGIETTI, VULAKOVICH, FABRIZIO, READSHAW AND TALLMAN, DECEMBER 7, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, DECEMBER 7, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, further providing for penalties for

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failure to report or to refer.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 6319 of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

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§ 6319.  Penalties for failure to report or to refer.

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A person or official required by this chapter to report a

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case of suspected child abuse or to make a referral to the

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appropriate authorities who willfully fails to do so commits a

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misdemeanor of the [third] second degree for the first violation

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and a misdemeanor of the [second] first degree for a second or

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subsequent violation.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.