Bill Information

An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, adding a definition of "newborn child"; further providing for notice of hearings; providing for confidentiality for adoptive parents; providing for the furnishing of counseling to parents whose parental rights are being relinquished; further providing for involuntary termination of parental rights; providing for preplacement investigations and reports; further providing for the contents of reports of intention to adopt; and further providing for preference as to religious upbringing of an adopted child.