PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1072
PRINTER'S NO. 1471
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, CERRATO AND GREEN, APRIL 28, 2023
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 7, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in juvenile matters,
further providing for DEFINITIONS AND 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:
SECTION 1. SECTION 6302 OF TITLE 42 OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
CONSOLIDATED STATUTES IS AMENDED BY ADDING A DEFINITION TO READ:
§ 6302. DEFINITIONS.
THE FOLLOWING WORDS AND PHRASES WHEN USED IN THIS CHAPTER
SHALL HAVE, UNLESS THE CONTEXT CLEARLY INDICATES OTHERWISE, THE
MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM IN THIS SECTION:
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"POTENTIAL KINSHIP CARE RESOURCE." AN INDIVIDUAL WHO MEETS
THE REQUIREMENTS TO BE AN EMERGENCY CAREGIVER AND HAS EXPRESSED
A WILLINGNESS TO BE A KINSHIP CAREGIVER FOR A DEPENDENT CHILD.
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SECTION 2. SECTION 6336.1 OF TITLE 42 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 A POTENTIAL 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 A POTENTIAL kinship care resource
with the right to be heard DURING A SCHEDULED HEARING OR AT A
SEPARATE DISPOSITIONAL HEARING , but only as to the individual's
qualifications to provide kinship care, at any hearing under
this chapter. KINSHIP CARE. ONCE A POTENTIAL KINSHIP CARE
RESOURCE HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE COURT, THE COURT
SHALL RENDER A DECISION AS TO WHETHER THE POTENTIAL KINSHIP CARE
RESOURCE MAY RECEIVE NOTICE OR PARTICIPATE IN FUTURE HEARINGS
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 A POTENTIAL kinship care resource
for the child legal standing in the matter being heard by the
court.
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Section 2 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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