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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 4340

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2828 Session of 2006


        INTRODUCED BY PHILLIPS, GEIST, STABACK, BAKER, BALDWIN, BUNT,
           CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, DALEY, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, FABRIZIO,
           GEORGE, HARHART, HASAY, HERSHEY, HESS, JAMES, KILLION,
           LaGROTTA, LEH, McGEEHAN, McILHATTAN, McNAUGHTON, O'NEILL,
           PAYNE, PICKETT, RAMALEY, REICHLEY, RUBLEY, SATHER, SIPTROTH,
           B. SMITH, SONNEY, E. Z. TAYLOR, J. TAYLOR, THOMAS, WATSON,
           WILT AND YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 22, 2006

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 22, 2006

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for identifying
     3     information in protection from abuse orders.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 6108(b) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 6108.  Relief.
     9     * * *
    10     (b)  Identifying information.--Any order issued under this
    11  section shall, where furnished by either party, specify the
    12  Social Security number and date of birth of the defendant. Any
    13  portion of any order or any petition or other paper that
    14  includes a defendant's Social Security number shall be kept in
    15  the files of the court as a permanent record and withheld from
    16  public inspection except:

     1         (1)  upon an order of the court granted upon cause shown;
     2         (2)  as necessary, by law enforcement and court
     3     personnel; or
     4         (3)  after redaction of information listing a defendant's
     5     Social Security number.
     6     * * *
     7     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.
















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