Bill Information

An Act providing for a temporary drug cases division of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, for an expansion of the number of judgeships in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in order to staff the new division, for comprehensive drug-abuse screening of arrestees in any county having a drug cases division, for drug treatment services for persons awaiting trial in any county having a drug cases division, for eligibility for probation without verdict and disposition in lieu of trial or criminal punishment for drug-dependent defendants in any county having a drug cases division, for mandatory drug-abuse treatment for treatable drug-dependent offenders convicted in any county having a drug cases division; and making repeals.