PRINTER'S NO. 1665
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1534
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY M. MACKENZIE, HENNESSEY, PICKETT, RYAN, MILLARD,
R. MACKENZIE, ROWE AND MOUL, JUNE 3, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 3, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions
independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills
and grant 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(e) of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
ยง 3101. Payments to family and funeral directors.
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(e) Unclaimed property.--
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(1.1) Notwithstanding the conditions set out in
paragraph (1)(i) and (ii), if the amount of the funds or the
value of the property is $11,000 or less, a lineal
descendant, other than a child, of the decedent may present a
claim under this section upon a showing that there is no
other surviving relative in the order of preference set out
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in paragraph (1)(ii).
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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