A00689
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
856
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY BOBACK, HOWARD, LONGIETTI, RADER, KORTZ, HELM,
DeLUCA, PETRARCA AND D. MILLER, MARCH 18, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, MARCH 18, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in children and youth,
further providing for definitions; and, in family finding and
kinship care, further providing for definitions, for Kinship
Care Program, for Subsidized Permanent Legal Custodianship
Program and for permanent legal custodianship subsidy and
reimbursement.
Amending Title 67 (Public Welfare) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in preliminary provisions, further
providing for definitions; in medical assistance hearings and
appeals, further providing for definitions; in public welfare
generally, providing for adoption opportunities and for
family finding and kinship care; establishing the Kinship
Care Program and the Subsidized Permanent Legal Custodianship
Program; making related repeals; and making editorial
changes.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 772 of the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31,
No.21), known as the Human Services Code, amended June 30, 2012
(P.L.668, No.80), amendment declared unconstitutional, 188 A.3d
1135 (Pa. 2018), is reenacted and amended to read:
Section 772. Definitions.--As used in this subdivision:
"Adoption opportunity" is a subsidy which may include
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