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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY MURPHY, WAGNER, BISHOP, BELFANTI, CALTAGIRONE, CREIGHTON, DEASY, HALUSKA, KORTZ, KULA, MUNDY, M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, QUINN, SIPTROTH, BENNINGHOFF, MILNE, VULAKOVICH AND GRUCELA, AUGUST 6, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, AUGUST 6, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, providing for disposition of agency |
3 | records upon closure. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Title 23 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated |
7 | Statutes is amended by adding a section to read: |
8 | § 2911. Disposition of agency records upon closure. |
9 | As soon as practicable, but no less than 30 days prior to the |
10 | date on which an agency will cease to operate as a legal entity |
11 | in this Commonwealth, the agency shall, unless it has applied to |
12 | operate as a new legal entity, notify the Department of Public |
13 | Welfare of its intention to cease operating. Within this time |
14 | period, the agency shall submit a plan to the department |
15 | relating to the closure and transfer of case records to another |
16 | agency. The plan shall be subject to approval by the department. |
17 | In preparation for closure and transfer of case records, the |
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1 | agency shall label its case records to identify the court that |
2 | finalized an adoption or the court where a petition to terminate |
3 | parental rights or to adopt has been filed. The department shall |
4 | notify each court identified by the agency of the name, address |
5 | and telephone number of the agency to which case records have |
6 | been transferred. |
7 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 180 days. |
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