PRINTER'S NO. 1094
No. 992 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY MELIO, BURNS, MAINE, CORRIGAN, KOSINSKI, LaGROTTA,
McCALL, TRELLO, HALUSKA AND HAYDEN, APRIL 7, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 7, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 29, 1953 (P.L.1435, No.411), entitled
2 "An act relating to the more effective treatment of persons
3 convicted of crime or committed as defective delinquents;
4 creating in the Department of Justice correctional diagnostic
5 and classification centers; providing for the diagnosis and
6 classification of persons sentenced or committed by the
7 courts to a State institution; fixing the responsibility for
8 costs of transportation and maintenance of such persons;
9 prescribing duties of the courts and the powers and duties of
10 the Department of Justice relative thereto; making civil and
11 criminal laws applicable to penitentiaries and persons
12 therein or responsible therefor applicable in the case of the
13 said institutions," providing for the treatment of sex
14 offenders; and making an editorial change.
15 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16 hereby enacts as follows:
17 Section 1. The title of the act of July 29, 1953 (P.L.1435,
18 No.411), entitled "An act relating to the more effective
19 treatment of persons convicted of crime or committed as
20 defective delinquents; creating in the Department of Justice
21 correctional diagnostic and classification centers; providing
22 for the diagnosis and classification of persons sentenced or
23 committed by the courts to a State institution; fixing the
1 responsibility for costs of transportation and maintenance of
2 such persons; prescribing duties of the courts and the powers
3 and duties of the Department of Justice relative thereto; making
4 civil and criminal laws applicable to penitentiaries and persons
5 therein or responsible therefor applicable in the case of the
6 said institutions," is amended to read:
7 AN ACT
8 Relating to the more effective treatment of persons convicted of
9 crime or committed as defective delinquents; creating in the
10 Department of [Justice] Corrections correctional diagnostic
11 and classification centers; providing for the diagnosis and
12 classification of persons sentenced or committed by the
13 courts to a State institution; providing for the treatment of
14 certain sex offenders; fixing the responsibility for costs of
15 transportation and maintenance of such persons; prescribing
16 duties of the courts and the powers and duties of the
17 Department of [Justice] Corrections relative thereto; making
18 civil and criminal laws applicable to penitentiaries and
19 persons therein or responsible therefor applicable in the
20 case of the said institutions.
21 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
22 Section 5.1. The Secretary of Corrections shall provide for
23 the treatment of persons sentenced under 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 97
24 Subch. H (relating to sentencing of sex offenders) at diagnostic
25 and classification centers.
26 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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