PRINTER'S NO. 663
No. 612 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY EARLL, COSTA, LAVALLE AND WAGNER, MARCH 13, 2001
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 13, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the
3 dissemination of criminal history record information to
4 noncriminal justice agencies and individuals.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 9121(b) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 9121. General regulations.
10 * * *
11 (b) Dissemination to noncriminal justice agencies and
12 individuals.--Criminal history record information shall be
13 disseminated by a State or local police department to any
14 individual or noncriminal justice agency only upon request.
15 Except as provided in subsection (b.1):
16 (1) A fee may be charged by a State or local police
17 department for each request for criminal history record
18 information by an individual or noncriminal justice agency,
19 except that no fee shall be charged to an individual who
1 makes the request in order to apply to become a volunteer
2 with an affiliate of Big Brothers of America or Big Sisters
3 of America or with a rape crisis center or domestic violence
4 shelter.
5 (2) Before a State or local police department
6 disseminates criminal history record information to an
7 individual or noncriminal justice agency, it shall extract
8 from the record all notations of arrests, indictments or
9 other information relating to the initiation of criminal
10 proceedings where:
11 (i) three years have elapsed from the date of
12 arrest;
13 (ii) no conviction has occurred; and
14 (iii) no proceedings are pending seeking a
15 conviction.
16 * * *
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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