PRINTER'S NO. 564

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 507 Session of 1991


        INTRODUCED BY E. Z. TAYLOR, CAWLEY, VROON, TIGUE, TRELLO,
           JOSEPHS, FOX, BATTISTO, BUSH, NOYE, LAUGHLIN, BELARDI AND
           CIVERA, MARCH 11, 1991

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGING AND YOUTH, MARCH 11, 1991

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, providing for the Office of Child
     3     Support Legal Advocate.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Title 23 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     7  Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
     8  § 4306.1.  Child Support Legal Advocate.
     9     (a)  Authorization.--Domestic relations sections of the
    10  courts of common pleas may use Title IV-D of Federal Social
    11  Security Act funds and/or collection proceeds to create and
    12  staff an Office of Child Support Legal Advocate.
    13     (b)  Duty.--It shall be the duty of the Child Support Legal
    14  Advocate to aid in the presentation of complaints or in any
    15  proceedings designed to obtain compliance with any court order
    16  of support.
    17     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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