Bill Information

An Act amending the "Public Welfare Code," approved June 13, 1967 (P. L. 31, No. 21), requiring the Department of Public Welfare to develop and implement a State plan for regulating and licensing personal care boarding homes, prohibiting abusive, fraudulent and deceptive acts and practices by providers of and persons eligible for State medical assistance; providing remedies and penalties therefor; imposing certain participation requirements on providers and persons eligible; providing for third party liability; and imposing powers and duties on the Attorney General, the Department of Public Welfare and the district attorneys.