PRINTER'S NO. 3993
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2393
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY TAYLOR, SAYLOR, W. KELLER, GODSHALL, D. COSTA,
JOZWIAK AND NEILSON, OCTOBER 5, 2016
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 5, 2016
AN ACT
Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in governance of the
system, further providing for establishment of fees and
charges.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1725(c) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
§ 1725. Establishment of fees and charges.
(c) Counties of the first class.--
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(1.1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
section:
(i) The following fees shall be received by the
prothonotary of a county of the first class:
Appointment of special investigator ........ $25.00
Appointment of special psychiatrist ........ 25.00
Bail-Piece ................................. 25.00
Bail bond entering of all types, including
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Sign Own Bail (S.O.B.) and Release on
Recognizance (R.O.R.) ........................... 20.00
Bail forfeitures ........................... 25.00
Bench warrants ............................. 20.00
Bench warrants withdrawal .................. 20.00
Bill of particulars and discovery .......... 25.00
Certified copy of record bill of information 25.00
Certified copy of disposition of criminal
case ............................................ 25.00
Certified copy of docket entries ........... 25.00
Common pleas court motion for new trial
and/or in arrest of judgment .................... 20.00
Cost per one bill of information in each
criminal case ................................... 200.00
Detective license (filing application for) . 25.00
Exemplification of the record .............. 30.00
Expungements ............................... 30.00
Felony ..................................... 150.00
Filing and entering appeals to Commonwealth,
Superior or Supreme Court ....................... 80.00
Filing, docketing and certifying any
petitions, applications and motions not herein
specifically provided for ....................... 25.00
Funeral petitions .......................... 25.00
Habeas corpus .............................. 20.00
Misdemeanor ................................ 100.00
Motion to quash municipal court transcript . 25.00
Motion to quash bills of information ..... .. 25.00
Motion to suppress ......................... 25.00
Omnibus pretrial motion for relief ......... 30.00
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Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Appeal . . . 25.00
Producing a record in response to subpoena . 50.00
Probation and parole matters ............... 25.00
Petition for bail or bail reduction ....... . 25.00
Petition for change of venue ............... 25.00
Recognizance, forfeited, respited and
indexing any common pleas court ................. 25.00
Return of confiscated property ............. 25.00
Any proceeding under Rule #1100 or #6013 . . . 25.00
Reconsideration of sentence ................ 25.00
Short certificate and seal ................. 10.00
Subpoena and seal .......................... 4.00
Summary citation (nontraffic related) . . . . . . 50.00
Withdrawal of counsel ...................... 25.00
(ii) The fee for any service not specifically
provided for in subparagraph (i) shall be the same as for
a similar service at the discretion of the prothonotary.
(iii) The prothonotary shall not be required to
perform any service until the requisite fee is paid.
(iv) Beginning on January 1, 2018, and each January
1 thereafter, the prothonotary may, with the approval of
the president judge, periodically increase any fee or
charge imposed as of the effective date of this
paragraph. However, no such fee or charge may be
increased more than once in any three-year period, and
the amount of any increase may not be greater than the
percentage of increase in the Consumer Price Index for
Urban Workers for the immediate three years preceding the
last increase in the fee or charge.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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