Bill Information

An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for declaration of policy; defining "contemporaneous alternative method"; repealing provisions relating to videotaped depositions by a child victim or child material witness; further providing for recorded testimony, for testimony by contemporaneous alternative methods, for admissibility of certain statements, for hearsay, for use of dolls, for child victims of sexual or physical abuse and for comparative negligence.