PRINTER'S NO. 2290
No. 1859 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY L. I. COHEN, BATTISTO, BELARDI, BENNINGHOFF,
CHADWICK, COSTA, FRANKEL, HARHAI, HARHART, HORSEY, MELIO,
R. MILLER, PETRARCA, STABACK, E. Z. TAYLOR, TRELLO, WILLIAMS
AND YOUNGBLOOD, SEPTEMBER 27, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for willful failure
3 to pay support orders.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4354(a) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4354. Willful failure to pay support order.
9 (a) Offense defined.--An individual who willfully fails to
10 comply with a support order of a court of this Commonwealth when
11 the individual has the financial ability to comply with the
12 support order commits a [summary offense] felony of the third
13 degree.
14 * * *
15 Section 2. The amendment of 23 Pa.C.S. § 4354(a) shall apply
16 to offenses committed on or after the effective date of this
17 act.
1 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
G6L23VDL/19990H1859B2290 - 2 -