PRINTER'S NO. 1072
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1058
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY KRAJEWSKI, BENHAM, PROBST, MADDEN, WAXMAN,
SANCHEZ, FIEDLER, HILL-EVANS, GUENST, RABB, KINSEY, HOWARD,
PARKER, KHAN AND CERRATO, APRIL 28, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, APRIL 28, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in juvenile matters,
further providing for notice and hearing.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6336.1(a) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 6336.1. Notice and hearing.
(a) General rule.--The court shall direct the county agency
or juvenile probation department to provide the child's foster
parent, preadoptive parent [or], relative providing care for the
child or individual seeking to become a kinship care resource
under 67 Pa.C.S. § 7507(c) (relating to Kinship Care Program)
with timely notice of the hearing. The court shall provide the
child's foster parent, preadoptive parent or relative providing
care for the child the right to be heard at any hearing under
this chapter. The court shall provide an individual seeking to
become a kinship care resource with the right to be heard, but
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only as to the individual's qualifications to provide kinship
care, at any hearing under this chapter. Unless a foster parent,
preadoptive parent [or], relative providing care or individual
seeking to become a kinship care resource for a child has been
awarded legal custody pursuant to section 6357 (relating to
rights and duties of legal custodian), nothing in this section
shall give the foster parent, preadoptive parent [or], relative
providing care or individual seeking to become a kinship care
resource for the child legal standing in the matter being heard
by the court.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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