PRINTER'S NO. 1090

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 924 Session of 2003

        INTRODUCED BY BROWNE, BENNINGHOFF, COSTA, COY, CURRY, FRANKEL,
           GEIST, HARRIS, HERMAN, HORSEY, KELLER, LaGROTTA, LEACH,
           LEWIS, MELIO, R. MILLER, O'NEILL, PISTELLA, RAYMOND,
           REICHLEY, SOLOBAY, TIGUE, WALKO, WATSON AND WEBER,
           MARCH 19, 2003

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 19, 2003

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for willful failure
     3     to pay support order.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 4354(a) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 4354.  Willful failure to pay support order.
     9     (a)  Offense defined.--An individual who willfully fails to
    10  comply with a support order of a court of this Commonwealth when
    11  the individual has the financial ability to comply with the
    12  support order commits a [summary offense] misdemeanor of the
    13  third degree.
    14     * * *
    15     Section 2.  The amendment of 23 Pa.C.S. § 4354(a) shall apply
    16  to offenses committed on or after the effective date of this
    17  act.

     1     Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.




















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