PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1179 PRINTER'S NO. 3855
No. 1034 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY L. I. COHEN, BROWNE, COSTA, CRUZ, CURRY, FRANKEL,
GEIST, KENNEY, MELIO, R. MILLER, PISTELLA, RAYMOND, RUBLEY,
TRELLO, WATSON, C. WILLIAMS, WOJNAROSKI AND HARPER,
MARCH 15, 2001
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 7, 2002
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for willful failure
3 to pay support orders.
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] felony MISDEMEANOR of <--
13 the 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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