PRINTER'S NO. 525

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No. 498 Session of 2001

        INTRODUCED BY COSTA, MELLOW, BODACK, O'PAKE, TARTAGLIONE, LOGAN,
           KASUNIC, WAGNER, MUSTO, STOUT, STACK AND BOSCOLA,
           FEBRUARY 15, 2001

        REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 15, 2001

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
     2     Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
     3     costs in criminal cases; and creating the Crime Containment
     4     Officer Fund.

     5     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     6  hereby enacts as follows:
     7     Section 1.  Section 1725.1(f) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
     8  Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
     9  adding subsections to read:
    10  § 1725.1.  Costs.
    11     * * *
    12     (b.1)  Crime containment officer charge.--
    13         (1)  In addition to the costs imposed under subsection
    14     (b) and by general rule, the minor judiciary or the court of
    15     common pleas shall impose in every criminal case a charge of
    16     $25 where a conviction, guilty plea or a plea of nolo
    17     contendere is recorded and a charge of $1 in all summary
    18     cases where there is a plea of guilty or a finding of guilty

     1     by the court.
     2         (2)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
     3     charge imposed under this subsection shall be deposited into
     4     the Crime Containment Officer Fund provided that there has
     5     been payment of full restitution to the victim in the
     6     criminal case or summary case.
     7     (b.2)  There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
     8  Crime Containment Officer Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund.
     9  Moneys in the Crime Containment Officer Fund shall be expended
    10  for the purposes set forth in 53 Pa.C.S. § 2172 (relating to
    11  Crime Containment Officer Program).
    12     * * *
    13     (f)  Annual increase in costs.--Beginning on January 1, 1994,
    14  and each January 1 thereafter, the costs and charges under
    15  subsections (a), (b), (b.1) and (c) shall be increased by the
    16  percentage of increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban
    17  Workers for the immediate preceding calendar year which shall be
    18  published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin annually by the Supreme
    19  Court on or before the preceding November 30. This subsection
    20  shall expire January 1, [2001] 2003.
    21     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.






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