PRINTER'S NO. 2154
No. 1539 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY RHOADES, SEPTEMBER 27, 2000
REFERRED TO AGING AND YOUTH, SEPTEMBER 27, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for information
3 relating to child-care personnel.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6344(a) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
8 adding a subsection to read:
9 § 6344. Information relating to prospective child-care
10 personnel.
11 (a) Applicability.--This section applies to all prospective
12 employees of child-care services, prospective foster parents,
13 prospective adoptive parents, prospective self-employed family
14 day-care providers, an individual who directly provides child-
15 care services which are subsidized by Federal or State funds who
16 is not otherwise subject to approval, supervision or licensure
17 under Article IX or X of the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31,
18 No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code, and other persons
1 seeking to provide child-care services under contract with a
2 child-care facility or program. This section does not apply to
3 administrative or other support personnel unless their duties
4 will involve direct contact with children.
5 * * *
6 (f.1) Subsidized providers.--The department shall require an
7 individual who directly provides child-care services which are
8 subsidized by Federal or State funds who is not otherwise
9 subject to approval, supervision or licensure under the Public
10 Welfare Code to submit a report of criminal history and child
11 abuse information to the department prior to providing child-
12 care services.
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14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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