Bill Text: PA HB861 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for payments to counties for services to children; and making editorial changes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-01 - Referred to CHILDREN AND YOUTH [HB861 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB861-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 899
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 861 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY PASHINSKI, BISHOP, BRIGGS, V. BROWN, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, D. COSTA, DAVIS, FABRIZIO, GEIST, HARKINS, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, MURT, MYERS, K. SMITH, STABACK, WAGNER AND YOUNGBLOOD, MARCH 1, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, MARCH 1, 2011
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," further providing for
payments to counties for services to children; and making
editorial changes.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 704.1(a) of the act of June 13, 1967
(P.L.31, No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code, amended
August 5, 1991 (P.L.315, No.30), is 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,"] 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 63 (relating to
juvenile matters) in the following percentages:
(1) Eighty percent of the cost of an adoption subsidy paid
pursuant to subdivision (e) of Article VII of this act.
(2) No less than seventy-five percent and no more than
ninety percent of the reasonable cost including staff costs of
child welfare services, informal adjustment services provided
pursuant to [section 8 of the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464,
No.333), known as the "Juvenile Act,"] 42 Pa.C.S. § 6323
(relating to informal adjustment) and such services approved by
the department, including but not limited to, foster home care,
group home care, shelter care, community residential care, youth
service bureaus, day treatment centers and service to children
in their own home and any other alternative treatment programs
approved by the department.
(3) Sixty percent of the reasonable administrative costs
approved by the department except for those staff costs included
in clause (2) of this section as necessary for the provision of
child welfare services.
(4) Fifty 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,"] 42 Pa.C.S. Ch.
63 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
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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.
(5) Fifty percent of the reasonable cost of medical and
other examinations and treatment of a child ordered by the court
pursuant to [the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333),
known as the "Juvenile Act,"] 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 63 and the expenses
of the appointment of a guardian [pendente lite] ad litem, legal
counsel for a child, summons, warrants, notices, subpoenas,
travel expenses of witnesses, transportation of the child, and
other like expenses incurred in proceedings under [the act of
December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333), known as the "Juvenile
Act."] 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 63.
(6) Effective July 1, 1991, the department shall reimburse
county institution districts or their successors one hundred
percent of the reasonable costs of providing adoption services.
(7) Effective July 1, 1993, the department shall reimburse
county institution districts or their successors eighty percent
of the reasonable costs of providing foster home care, community
residential care, supervised independent living and community-
based alternative treatment programs.
(8) The department shall reimburse county institution
districts or their successors for the reasonable costs of
institutional services for dependent and delinquent children
other than detention services for delinquents in accordance with
the following schedule:
(i) Effective July 1, 1992, fifty-five percent.
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(ii) Effective July 1, 1993, sixty percent.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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