PRINTER'S NO. 3721
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2506
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY ROTHMAN, RYAN, SACCONE, HILL-EVANS, JAMES,
YOUNGBLOOD, WARD, DUSH, JOZWIAK, MILLARD AND PHILLIPS-HILL,
JUNE 18, 2018
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, JUNE 18, 2018
AN ACT
Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in child protective services, further
providing for investigating performance of county agency.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6343(c)(4) of Title 23 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 6343. Investigating performance of county agency.
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(c) Department reviews and reports of child fatalities and
near fatalities.--
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(4) Upon completion of the review and report, the
department's child fatality or near fatality report shall be
made available to the county agency, the child fatality or
near fatality review team and designated county officials
under section 6340(a)(11) (relating to release of information
in confidential reports). The report shall be made available,
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upon request, to other individuals to whom confidential
reports may be released, as specified by section 6340. The
department's report shall be made available to the public,
but identifying information shall be removed from the
contents of the report except for disclosure of: the identity
of a deceased child; if the child was in the custody of a
public or private agency, the identity of the agency; the
identity of the public or private agency under contract with
a county agency to provide services to the child and the
child's family in the child's home prior to the child's death
or near fatality; and the identity of any county agency that
convened a child fatality or near fatality review team in
respect to the child. If the report determines that no one
was culpable in the child's fatality or near fatality, the
report shall not be available to the public after one year
following the issuance of the report. The report shall not be
released to the public if the district attorney certifies
that release of the report may compromise a pending criminal
investigation or proceeding. Certification by the district
attorney shall stay the release of the report for a period of
60 days, at which time the report shall be released unless a
new certification is made by the district attorney.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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