PRINTER'S NO. 3169
No. 2361 Session of 1976
INTRODUCED BY SALOOM, PETRARCA, LaMARCA, M. P. MULLEN, LINCOLN,
NOVAK, KERNICK, GILLETTE, STOUT, DeWEESE, GREEN, RAPPAPORT,
TAYLOR, FISCHER, M. E. MILLER JR., POLITE, McGINNIS, SHANE
AND MISCEVICH, MAY 12, 1976
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE, MAY 12, 1976
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of November 26, 1975 (No.124), entitled "An act
2 establishing child protective services; providing procedures
3 for reporting and investigating the abuse of children;
4 establishing and providing access to a Statewide central
5 register on child abuse; investigating such reports;
6 providing for taking protective action including taking a
7 child into protective custody; placing duties on the
8 Department of Public Welfare and county child welfare
9 agencies; establishing child protective services in each
10 county child welfare agency; and providing penalties,"
11 requiring reports involving the death of a child to be sent
12 to the Pennsylvania State Police and the district attorney
13 and providing for investigation by the Pennsylvania State
14 Police.
15 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16 hereby enacts as follows:
17 Section 1. Section 10 and clause (3) of section 17, act of
18 November 26, 1975 (No.124), known as the "Child Protective
19 Services Law," are amended to read:
20 Section 10. Mandatory Reporting and Postmortem Investigation
21 of Deaths.--Any person or official required to report cases of
22 suspected child abuse, including employees of a county public
23 child welfare agency, and its child protective service, who has
1 reasonable cause to suspect that a child died as a result of
2 child abuse shall report that fact to the coroner, the
3 Pennsylvania State Police and the district attorney. The
4 [coroner] Pennsylvania State Police shall [accept the report
5 for] conduct an investigation and shall report [his] its finding
6 to the [police] coroner, the district attorney, the appropriate
7 child protective service and, if the report is made by a
8 hospital, the hospital.
9 Section 17. Duties of the Child Protective Service
10 Concerning Reports of Abuse.--Each child protective service
11 shall:
12 * * *
13 (3) Give telephone notice and forward immediately a copy of
14 reports made pursuant to this act which involve the death of a
15 child to the Pennsylvania State Police and the appropriate
16 coroner [pursuant to section 9] and district attorney.
17 * * *
18 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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