PRINTER'S NO. 2697
No. 2054 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY WESTON, HAGARTY, MAINE, O'BRIEN, MAIALE,
D. W. SNYDER, GANNON, FREEMAN, WOGAN, J. TAYLOR, KENNEY AND
PERZEL, OCTOBER 24, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 24, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for
3 confidential communications to psychiatrists.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 5944 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 5944. Confidential communications to psychiatrists or
9 licensed psychologists.
10 No psychiatrist or person who has been licensed under the act
11 of March 23, 1972 (P.L.136, No.52), to practice psychology shall
12 be, without the written consent of his client, examined in any
13 civil or criminal matter as to any information acquired in the
14 course of his professional services in behalf of such client.
15 The confidential relations and communications between a
16 psychologist or psychiatrist and his client shall be on the same
17 basis as those provided or prescribed by law between an attorney
18 and client.
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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