PRINTER'S NO. 4122
No. 2747 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY VANCE, PERZEL, BROOKS, YOUNGBLOOD, ADOLPH, ALLEN, BELFANTI, BISHOP, CAPPELLI, CIVERA, L. I. COHEN, CREIGHTON, CURRY, DeLUCA, FLICK, FREEMAN, GEIST, GEORGE, HERMAN, LESCOVITZ, MACKERETH, McCALL, McILHATTAN, R. MILLER, S. MILLER, MUNDY, NICKOL, PICKETT, PISTELLA, ROBERTS, ROSS, RUBLEY, SATHER, SCRIMENTI, SHANER, STEELMAN, STERN, T. STEVENSON, E. Z. TAYLOR, WALKO, WATSON AND ZUG, JUNE 26, 2002
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 26, 2002
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 court 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. E31L54DMS/20020H2747B4122