PRINTER'S NO. 2839
No. 2127 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY BENNINGHOFF, BARD, BARRAR, BEBKO-JONES, BELFANTI,
BROWNE, BUNT, CAPPELLI, CAWLEY, CLARK, L. I. COHEN, COLEMAN,
CREIGHTON, CRUZ, DALLY, DERMODY, DeWEESE, DIVEN, J. EVANS,
FAIRCHILD, FEESE, FICHTER, GEIST, GEORGE, GRUCELA, HALUSKA,
HARHAI, HARHART, HERMAN, HERSHEY, HESS, HORSEY, HUTCHINSON,
JAMES, JOSEPHS, KAISER, KIRKLAND, LEVDANSKY, LEWIS,
MACKERETH, MARKOSEK, McCALL, MELIO, METCALFE, R. MILLER,
MUNDY, NAILOR, PALLONE, PETRARCA, PICKETT, ROBERTS, SAINATO,
SAMUELSON, SATHER, SAYLOR, SCHRODER, SCHULER, SCRIMENTI,
SEMMEL, SHANER, B. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STABACK, STEELMAN, SURRA,
E. Z. TAYLOR, J. TAYLOR, THOMAS, TIGUE, WANSACZ, WATSON,
WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD, YUDICHAK, G. WRIGHT, HENNESSEY AND
HARPER, NOVEMBER 13, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 13, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for dissemination of
3 criminal history record information.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 9121(b) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 9121. General regulations.
9 * * *
10 (b) Dissemination to noncriminal justice agencies and
11 individuals.--Criminal history record information shall be
12 disseminated by a State or local police department to any
13 individual or noncriminal justice agency only upon request.
1 Except as provided in subsection (b.1):
2 (1) A fee may be charged by a State or local police
3 department for each request for criminal history record
4 information by an individual or noncriminal justice agency,
5 except that no fee shall be charged to an individual who
6 makes the request in order to apply to become a volunteer
7 with an affiliate of Big Brothers of America or Big Sisters
8 of America or a volunteer fire department or ambulance
9 service.
10 (2) Before a State or local police department
11 disseminates criminal history record information to an
12 individual or noncriminal justice agency, it shall extract
13 from the record all notations of arrests, indictments or
14 other information relating to the initiation of criminal
15 proceedings where:
16 (i) three years have elapsed from the date of
17 arrest;
18 (ii) no conviction has occurred; and
19 (iii) no proceedings are pending seeking a
20 conviction.
21 * * *
22 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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