PRINTER'S NO. 2007
No. 1433 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY WAUGH, GREENLEAF, A. WILLIAMS AND WOZNIAK, MAY 14, 2002
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MAY 14, 2002
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the 2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for 3 classification and order or payment of claims against the 4 estate of a decedent. 5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 6 hereby enacts as follows: 7 Section 1. Section 3392 of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania 8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: 9 § 3392. Classification and order of payment. 10 If the applicable assets of the estate are insufficient to 11 pay all proper charges and claims in full, the personal 12 representative, subject to any preference given by law to claims 13 due the United States, shall pay them in the following order, 14 without priority as between claims of the same class: 15 (1) The costs of administration. 16 (2) The family exemption. 17 (3) The costs of the decedent's funeral and burial, and 18 the costs of medicines furnished to him within six months of
1 his death, of medical or nursing services performed for him 2 within that time, of hospital services including maintenance 3 provided him within that time, and of services performed for 4 him by any of his employees within that time. 5 (4) The cost of a gravemarker. 6 (5) Rents for the occupancy of the decedent's residence 7 for six months immediately prior to his death. 8 (5.1) Claims by the Commonwealth and the political 9 subdivisions of the Commonwealth. 10 (6) All other claims[, including claims by the 11 Commonwealth]. 12 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. D23L20JAM/20020S1433B2007 - 2 -