PRINTER'S NO.  1969

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

1413

Session of

2012

  

  

INTRODUCED BY WARD, SCARNATI, PILEGGI, COSTA, VOGEL, YAW, ALLOWAY, McILHINNEY, TOMLINSON, PIPPY, BROWNE, RAFFERTY, SOLOBAY, FERLO, ARGALL, MENSCH, SMUCKER, BAKER, ERICKSON, D. WHITE, EICHELBERGER, HUGHES, YUDICHAK, WASHINGTON, KASUNIC, LEACH, FONTANA, BOSCOLA, STACK, PICCOLA AND FARNESE, FEBRUARY 27, 2012

  

  

REFERRED TO AGING AND YOUTH, FEBRUARY 27, 2012  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, in child protective services, further

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providing for penalties for 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] first degree for the first violation

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and a [misdemeanor of the second] felony of the third degree for

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a second or subsequent violation.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.