PRINTER'S NO. 1079
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
871
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY J. WARD, COLLETT, SANTARSIERO, FONTANA, SCHWANK,
BAKER, MENSCH, YUDICHAK, TARTAGLIONE, PITTMAN, STEFANO,
CAPPELLETTI AND SCAVELLO, SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
REFERRED TO AGING AND YOUTH, SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in child protective services, further
providing for definitions, for mandatory reporting and
postmortem investigation of deaths, for establishment of
Statewide database, for access to information in Statewide
database, for information in Statewide database, for
disposition and expunction of unfounded reports and general
protective services reports, for disposition of founded and
indicated reports, for expunction of information of
perpetrator who was under 18 years of age when child abuse
was committed and for release of information in confidential
reports, providing for exchange of information for placement,
further providing for amendment or expunction of information,
for investigating performance of county agency, for employees
having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents,
for audits by Attorney General, for reports to Governor and
General Assembly, for penalties, for services for prevention,
investigation and treatment of child abuse, for reports to
department and coroner, for investigation of reports, for
voluntary or court-ordered services and findings of child
abuse and for evidence in court proceedings; and making
editorial changes.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "expunge" in section 6303(a)
is amended and subsection (b.1)(8)(vi) of Title 23 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
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