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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 3, 2013 03:05 PM |
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| From: | Representative Mike Reese |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Fees for Installment Payment Plan on Court Fines |
| In the near future, I am planning to reintroduce House Bill 267. This legislation will amend Section 9758 of the Judicial Code (Title 42) relating to fines in criminal cases. House Bill 267 passed the House on October 5, 2011 (199-0). Recently, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued an order prohibiting the imposition of fees for installment payment plans in criminal and summary matters in the common pleas and magisterial district courts. The Supreme Court issued this order on the basis that there is currently no statutory authorization for the imposition of this fee. My legislation will allow for the collection of a reasonable fee for the initial creation of an installment payment plan. The fee shall be no more that the fee charged for unclassified costs not enumerated in Title 42. The maximum fee which may be charged is the minimum fee, increased by the percentage of increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Workers for the immediate preceding calendar year. This legislation will not mandate that this fee be added to the defendant’s fines but instead provides the necessary statutory authorization to collect this fee. |
Introduced as HB901