PRINTER'S NO. 2778
No. 2136 Session of 1976
INTRODUCED BY RICHARDSON, FEBRUARY 17, 1976
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND WELFARE, FEBRUARY 17, 1976
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 24, 1937 (P.L.2017, No.396), entitled
2 "An act creating in each county (except of the first class)
3 as a separate corporation, and in each city of the first and
4 second class as a part of the city government, an institution
5 district for the care and maintenance of certain indigent
6 persons and children; prescribing the powers and duties of
7 county commissioners, county treasurers, city departments of
8 public welfare, the State Department of Welfare and the State
9 Department of Public Assistance in respect thereto;
10 abolishing certain poor districts and terminating the terms
11 of directors, overseers, guardians and managers of the poor
12 and poor district auditors, and providing for the temporary
13 employment of certain of them; providing for the transfer,
14 vesting, sale and disposition of the property of poor
15 districts and the payment of their obligations; imposing
16 certain existing obligations on institution districts and on
17 the Commonwealth; regulating the affairs of poor districts
18 until abolished; revising, amending, changing and
19 consolidating the law relating to the care of the poor; and
20 repealing existing laws," further providing for the care of
21 certain children.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. The act of June 24, 1937 (P.L.2017, No.396),
25 known as the "County Institution District Law," is amended by
26 adding a section to read:
27 Section 405.1. Care of Certain Children.--Whenever the
28 circumstances of a child are such that his needs cannot be
1 adequately met in his own home, the local authorities of an
2 institution district may effect his placement in a foster home,
3 with or without payment of board, in a group home, or in an
4 appropriate institution if such care is deemed essential for
5 him. The institution district shall make every reasonable effort
6 to select a foster home, a group home or an institution of the
7 same religious faith as the parent or parents of such child.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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