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PA SB1145

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/20/2026

Primary Sponsor

Michele Brooks

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes the Compliance Review and Reporting Program within the Department of Health to monitor whether hospitals and health care facilities providing medical care to children are properly reporting suspected sexual abuse or exploitation under Pennsylvania's child protective services law

  • Requires the Department of Health to review all relevant pediatric health records during facility inspections to verify that mandated reports of suspected child sexual abuse were filed, with the Department of Human Services required to confirm report submissions

  • Authorizes parents or guardians of alleged victims to bring civil actions against facilities that failed to file required abuse reports, and requires the Department to refer non-compliant facilities and mandated reporters to State Police, licensing boards, and district attorneys for investigation

  • Imposes civil penalties up to $2,500 per day on facilities that willfully fail to provide records, conceal records, or obstruct compliance reviews, with collected penalties deposited into the Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund

  • Allows the Department of Human Services to withhold state-funded health care reimbursements from facilities with three or more compliance failures, and makes inspectors who willfully fail to report discovered abuse guilty of a third-degree misdemeanor

Legislative Description

Establishing the Compliance Review and Reporting Program; imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services; and imposing penalties.

Last Action

Referred to Health & Human Services

1/20/2026

Committee Referrals

Health & Human Services1/20/2026

Full Bill Text

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