PRINTER'S NO. 1645

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

1229

Session of

2022

INTRODUCED BY BAKER, SANTARSIERO, COSTA, PHILLIPS-HILL,

BARTOLOTTA, FONTANA, COLLETT, A. WILLIAMS, GORDNER,

CAPPELLETTI, LAUGHLIN, KEARNEY, MENSCH, KANE AND SCHWANK,

further providing for payments to counties for services to

children.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 704.1(a) of the act of June 13, 1967

(P.L.31, No.21), known as the Human Services Code, is amended to

read:

Section 704.1. Payments to Counties for Services to

Children.--(a) The department shall reimburse county

institution districts or their successors for expenditures

(2) No less than seventy-five percent and no more than

ninety percent of the reasonable cost including staff costs of

child welfare services, informal adjustment services provided

pursuant to [section 8 of the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464,

No.333), known as the "Juvenile Act,"] 42 Pa.C.S. § 6323

(relating to informal adjustment) and such services approved by

the department, including but not limited to, foster home care,

group home care, shelter care, community residential care, youth

service bureaus, day treatment centers and service to children

in their own home and any other alternative treatment programs

a child placed by a county child welfare agency or a child

committed by a court pursuant to [the act of December 6, 1972

(P.L.1464, No.333), known as the "Juvenile Act,"] 42 Pa.C.S. Ch.

63 to the legal custody of a public or private agency approved

or operated by the department other than those services

described in clause (2). The Auditor General shall ascertain the

actual expense for fiscal year 1974-1975 and each year

thereafter by the Department of [Public Welfare] Human Services

for each of the several counties and each city of the first

class whose children resident within the county or city of the

providing said services. The Auditor General shall certify to

each county and city of the first class the allocated

Commonwealth expenditures incurred on behalf of its children and

notify the Secretary of [Public Welfare] Human Services and each

county and city of the first class of same.

(5) [Fifty percent of the reasonable cost of medical and

other examinations and treatment of a child ordered by the court

pursuant to the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333),

known as the "Juvenile Act," and the expenses of the appointment

of a guardian pendente lite, summons, warrants, notices,

and treatment of a child ordered by the court;

(ii) the appointment of a guardian ad litem for a child in

the context of dependency proceedings;

(iii) the appointment of counsel for a child in the context

of dependency proceedings;

(iv) the appointment of counsel for an indigent child in the

context of delinquency proceedings;

(v) summons, warrants, notices, subpoenas, travel expenses

of witnesses and transportation of the child; and

(vi) other similar expenses inc urred in these proceedings.

county institution districts or their successors eighty percent

of the reasonable costs of providing foster home care, community

residential care, supervised independent living and community-

based alternative treatment programs.

(8) The department shall reimburse county institution

districts or their successors for the reasonable costs of

institutional services for dependent and delinquent children

other than detention services for delinquents in accordance with

the following schedule:

(i) Effective July 1, 1992, fifty-five percent.