PENNSYLVANIA, February 10 - PRINTER'S NO. 156

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

188

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY DiSANTO, K. WARD, BAKER, MARTIN, PITTMAN AND

STEFANO, FEBRUARY 10, 2021

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021

AN ACT

Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, in adoption, further providing for

definitions, for hearing, for grounds for involuntary

termination and for petition for involuntary termination,

providing for notice if identity or whereabouts of birth

parent or putative father unknown, further providing for

consents necessary to adoption and repealing provisions

relating to consents not naming adopting parents.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 2102 of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding definitions to read:

§ 2102. Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this part shall

have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the

meanings given to them in this section:

* * *

"Denial of paternity." The written statement of a putative

father declaring all of the following:

(1) The individual is not the father of the child.

(2) The individual does not acknowledge paternity of the

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