PRINTER'S NO. 1896
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1681
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY HENNESSEY, WHEELAND, SCHLEGEL CULVER, MILLARD AND
BOBACK, JUNE 23, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES,
JUNE 23, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of November 6, 1987 (P.L.381, No.79), entitled
"An act relating to the protection of the abused, neglected,
exploited or abandoned elderly; establishing a uniform
Statewide reporting and investigative system for suspected
abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment of the elderly;
providing protective services; providing for funding; and
making repeals," in preliminary provisions, further providing
for legislative policy and for definitions; in
administration, further providing for duties of department
and area agencies on aging, providing for duties of financial
institutions and fiduciaries, further providing for reporting
and protection from retaliation and immunity, repealing
provisions relating to investigations of reports of need for
protective services and to provision of services and access
to records and persons, providing for receipt and
investigation of reports and for provision of protective
services, repealing provisions relating to immunity from
civil and criminal liability and to confidentiality of
records, further providing for involuntary intervention by
emergency court order, repealing provisions relating to
individual rights, to financial obligations and liabilities
and payments, to regulations and enforcement and to funds for
payment of administration of chapter and providing for
confidentiality of records, for rights of older adults and
for electronic records; in criminal history for employees,
repealing provisions relating to definitions, to information
relating to prospective facility personnel and to grounds for
denying employment, providing for criminal history and
repealing provisions relating to regulations, to violations,
to provisional employees for limited periods, to State Police
and to applicability; in reporting suspected abuse by
employees, repealing provisions relating to reports to
department and coroner, to investigation, to restrictions on
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