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PRINTER'S NO. 488
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
443
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY HARHAI, MILLARD, KOTIK, KINSEY, LONGIETTI, THOMAS,
DIAMOND, MURT, BROWNLEE, GRELL, MAHONEY, GIBBONS AND GILLEN,
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions
independent of letters, further providing for payments to
family and funeral directors.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3101(b) of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 3101. Payments to family and funeral directors.
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(b) Deposit account.--Any bank, savings association, savings
and loan association, building and loan association, credit
union or other savings organization, at any time after the death
of a depositor, member or certificate holder, shall pay the
amount on deposit or represented by the certificate, when the
total standing to the credit of the decedent in that institution
does not exceed $10,000, to the spouse, any child, the father or
mother [or], any sister or brother or any grandchild (preference
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being given in the order named) of the deceased depositor,
member or certificate holder, provided that a receipted funeral
bill or an affidavit, executed by a licensed funeral director
which sets forth that satisfactory arrangements for payment of
funeral services have been made, is presented. Any bank,
association, credit union or other savings organization making
such a payment shall be released to the same extent as if
payment had been made to a duly appointed personal
representative of the decedent and it shall not be required to
see to the application thereof. Any person to whom payment is
made shall be answerable therefor to anyone prejudiced by an
improper distribution.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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