PENNSYLVANIA, September 29 - 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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