PRINTER'S NO. 1051

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 942 Session of 1999

        INTRODUCED BY ROONEY, DeLUCA, BELFANTI, CURRY, HARHAI, LAUGHLIN,
           MELIO, RAMOS, SHANER, SURRA, THOMAS, TRELLO AND WALKO,
           MARCH 22, 1999

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 22, 1999

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the time period
     3     for the employment of provisional child-care employees.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 6344(m) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 6344.  Information relating to prospective child-care
     9             personnel.
    10     * * *
    11     (m)  Provisional employees for limited periods.--
    12  Notwithstanding subsection (b), administrators may employ
    13  applicants on a provisional basis for a single period not to
    14  exceed the longer of 30 days or the time period it takes for a
    15  written reply under subsection (b) or, for out-of-State
    16  applicants, a period of 90 days, if all of the following
    17  conditions are met:
    18         (1)  [The] Within 48 hours of the time in which a new

     1     provisional employee begins employment, the administrator or
     2     the applicant has applied for the information required under
     3     subsection (b) and the applicant provides a copy of the
     4     appropriate completed request forms and copies of certified
     5     mail receipts showing the date and time of making of such
     6     request forms to the administrator.
     7         (2)  The administrator has no knowledge of information
     8     pertaining to the applicant which would disqualify him from
     9     employment pursuant to subsection (c).
    10         (3)  The applicant swears or affirms in writing that he
    11     is not disqualified from employment pursuant to subsection
    12     (c).
    13         (4)  If the information obtained pursuant to subsection
    14     (b) reveals that the applicant is disqualified from
    15     employment pursuant to subsection (c), the applicant shall be
    16     immediately dismissed by the administrator.
    17         (5)  The administrator requires that the applicant not be
    18     permitted to work alone with children and that the applicant
    19     work in the immediate vicinity of a permanent employee.
    20     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.







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