Bill Text: PA HB1729 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-06-17 - Referred to CHILDREN AND YOUTH [HB1729 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1729-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2193
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1729 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY CREIGHTON, THOMAS, D. COSTA, GEIST, MILLARD, MILLER, MOUL, RAPP, SIPTROTH AND SWANGER, JUNE 17, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, JUNE 17, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
welfare laws of the Commonwealth," payments to counties for
services to children.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 704.1(a)(4) and (g) of the act of June
13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code,
amended or added July 9, 1976 (P.L.846, No.148) and August 5,
1991 (P.L.315, No.30), are amended to read:
Section 704.1. Payments to Counties for Services to
Children.--(a) The department shall reimburse county
institution districts or their successors for expenditures
incurred by them in the performance of their obligation pursuant
to this act and the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333),
known as the "Juvenile Act," in the following percentages:
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(4) [Fifty percent] Ninety percent of the actual cost of
care and support of a child placed by a county child welfare
agency or a child committed by a court pursuant to the act of
December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333), known as the "Juvenile
Act," to the legal custody of a public or private agency
approved or operated by the department other than those services
described in clause (2). The Auditor General shall ascertain the
actual expense for fiscal year 1974-1975 and each year
thereafter by the Department of Public Welfare for each of the
several counties and each city of the first class whose children
resident within the county or city of the first class directly
received the benefit of the Commonwealth's expenditure. The
Auditor General shall also ascertain for each Commonwealth
institution or facility rendering services to delinquent or
deprived children the actual average daily cost of providing
said services. The Auditor General shall certify to each county
and city of the first class the allocated Commonwealth
expenditures incurred on behalf of its children and notify the
Secretary of Public Welfare and each county and city of the
first class of same.
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(g) The department shall, within forty-five days of each
calendar quarter, pay [fifty percent] ninety percent of the
department's share of the county institution district's or its
successor's estimated expenditures for that quarter.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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