PRINTER'S NO. 3452
No. 2441 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY CAPPELLI, ARMSTRONG, BALDWIN, BENNINGHOFF, CAUSER,
CRUZ, DeLUCA, DeWEESE, FABRIZIO, GEIST, GEORGE, GILLESPIE,
GINGRICH, HARPER, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY, JAMES, KELLER, LEACH,
PAYNE, PICKETT, REICHLEY, SAINATO, SATHER, SAYLOR, SCHRODER,
SOLOBAY, THOMAS, TURZAI, VANCE, WASHINGTON AND YOUNGBLOOD,
MARCH 16, 2004
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 16, 2004
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 54 (Names) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for surviving spouse to resume prior
3 name.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 54 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 704.1. Surviving spouse may resume prior name.
9 A surviving spouse may, at any time, resume any prior surname
10 used by him or her by filing a written notice to such effect in
11 the office of the clerk of courts of common pleas of the county
12 where the surviving spouse resides, accompanied by a certificate
13 of death for the decedent.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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