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Establishing the Grand-family Assistance Program; providing for payments to area agencies on aging; imposing duties on the Department of Aging; and establishing the Grand-family Assistance Program Fund.
In administration, providing for fatality review teams and further providing for confidentiality of records.
In the aged, further providing for LIFE Program; and making a repeal.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, providing for short title of chapter and further providing for determination of eligibility and for the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly Needs Enhancement Tier ; and making an editorial change.
Establishing the Grandfamily Assistance Program and the Grandfamily Assistance Program Fund; providing for grants to area agencies on aging; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Aging.
In public assistance, further providing for copayments for subsidized child care; and making a repeal.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a registry for those who abuse individuals considered to be vulnerable populations.
In children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children and for review of county submissions.
In children and youth, providing for ensuring safe and humane institutional practices.
In children and youth, further providing for availability of services, providing for purposes and further providing for statistics and assistance for research.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision, providing for Keystone STARS Program; and, in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for fees, providing for Keystone STARS Program and further providing for definition.
In State Lottery, further providing for statement of purpose and for powers and duties of secretary.
In child protective services, further providing for responsibility for investigation, for responsibilities of county agency for child protective services, for county agency requirements for general protective services and for purchase of services.
In child protective services, further providing for establishment of Statewide database, for access to information in Statewide database, for information in Statewide database, for disposition of founded and indicated reports, for amendment or expunction of information, for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents, for information relating to certified or licensed child-care home residents, for continued employment or participation in program, activity or service and for investigation of reports.
In State Lottery, further providing for powers and duties of secretary.
In public assistance, further providing for definitions, for administration of assistance programs and for regulations for protection of information; in the aged, further providing for Life Program; and making a repeal.
In child protective services, providing for study to determine drug abuse by parents within resource families; and establishing the Selection and Advisory Council.
Further providing for definitions; and making editorial changes.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for definitions.
In public assistance, further providing for definitions, for administration of assistance programs and for regulations for protection of information; in the aged, further providing for Life Program; and making a repeal.
Establishing the Alzheimer's, Dementia and Related Disorders Office and the Alzheimer's, Dementia and Related Disorders Advisory Committee.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study of the budgeted funding levels of Federal, State and local agencies that provide child welfare and juvenile justice services compared to the provider contracted rates for those same services in this Commonwealth, and the financial and social impact of any disparity between the approved rate by the State and contracted rate and to issue a report of its findings and recommendations to the Senate.
Further providing for definitions; and making editorial changes.
In child protective services, further providing for responsibility for investigation, for responsibilities of county agency for child protective services, for county agency requirements for general protective services and for purchase of services.
In support matters generally, further providing for assistance recipients to seek support, for cooperation required and for enforcement of cooperation requirements.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for administration.
Establishing the Office of Child Advocate; and imposing penalties.
Establishing the Alzheimer's, Dementia and Related Disorders Office and the Alzheimer's, Dementia and Related Disorders Advisory Committee.
In intestate succession, further providing for forfeiture; in wills, further providing for modification by circumstances; in slayers, further providing for definition of terms, providing for elder abuser not to acquire property, further providing for descent, distribution, dower, curtesy, and statutory rights as survivor, for legacies, for tenancies by the entirety, for joint tenants, joint owners and joint obligees, for reversions and vested remainders, for interests dependent on survivorship or continuance of life, for contingent remainders and executory or other future interests, for powers of appointment, for proceeds of insurance, for bona fide payment by insurance company or obligor, for bona fide purchasers, for record of conviction as evidence and for preadjudication rule and providing for intent to transfer notwithstanding elder abuse; and making an editorial change.
In practice and procedure, providing for child victims and witnesses.
Further providing for definitions and for kinship caregiver navigator website; providing for grants for case management and legal caregiver services; and making a transfer.
Further providing for title of the act; in general provisions, further providing for legislative findings for early intervention, for definitions, for State interagency agreement, for other duties of State agencies and for council; in Statewide system for provision of early intervention services, further providing for requirements, for program regulations and standards, for administration by Department of Public Welfare, for administration by Department of Education and for child identification, assessment and tracking system; in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for effective date; and making editorial changes.
In juvenile matters, further providing for definitions and for notice and hearing.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
In emergency COVID-19 response, providing for
In public assistance, further providing for personal needs allowance deduction for medical assistance-eligible persons in nursing facilities.
Providing for sunscreen and sun-protective measures in schools and youth camps.
In administration, providing for Statewide registry of perpetrators of abuse in facilities.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision, providing for Keystone STARS Program; and, in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for fees, providing for Keystone STARS Program and further providing for definition.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
Further providing for unwanted telephone solicitation calls prohibited.
In children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children and for review of county submissions.
In children and youth, providing for purpose.
Establishing the LGBTQ Senior Community Grant Program; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Aging; and making an appropriation.
In child protective services, providing for study to determine drug abuse by parents within resource families; and establishing the Selection and Advisory Council.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
In State lottery, further providing for powers and duties of secretary.
Providing for resource families; making editorial changes; and making related repeals.
In miscellaneous provisions, providing for miscellaneous provisions; and making an editorial change.
Establishing the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Greater Father Involvement within the Joint State Government Commission and providing for its powers and duties.
In juvenile matters, further providing for disposition of dependent child; in human services generally, reorganizing provisions relating to adoption opportunities and to family finding and kinship care; and making editorial changes.
In children and youth, providing for purpose.
In children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children and for review of county submissions.
Providing for communication duties between the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services with certain agencies and the Department of Aging relating to abuse of adults and older adults.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study of long-term care facilities' impact relating to Medicaid funds in this Commonwealth.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for mandatory reporting and postmortem investigation of deaths, for establishment of Statewide database, for access to information in Statewide database, for information in Statewide database, for disposition and expunction of unfounded reports and general protective services reports, for disposition of founded and indicated reports, for expunction of information of perpetrator who was under 18 years of age when child abuse was committed and for release of information in confidential reports, providing for exchange of information for placement, further providing for amendment or expunction of information, for investigating performance of county agency, for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents, for audits by Attorney General, for reports to Governor and General Assembly, for penalties, for services for prevention, investigation and treatment of child abuse, for reports to department and coroner, for investigation of reports, for voluntary or court-ordered services and findings of child abuse and for evidence in court proceedings; and making editorial changes.
Providing for access to long-term care facilities for members of the clergy, for additional safety requirements for residents, for suspension of access for members of the clergy and for personal protective equipment for members of the clergy.
In children and youth, providing for Statewide children's mental health ombudsman.
Further providing for definitions and for powers and duties of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency; providing for racial impact statement for juvenile matters laws; further providing for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee; providing for Statewide Youth and Family Advisory Committee; and establishing the Juvenile Nonresidential Evidence-Based Practices Fund.
In child protective services, further providing for investigation of reports.
In child protective services, providing for study to determine drug abuse by parents within resource families; and establishing the Selection and Advisory Council.
In ARPA health care workforce supports, further providing for definitions; and providing for early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease or a related disorder.
In emergency COVID-19 response, further providing for money in account; and providing for opioid abuse child impact task force and for ARPA health care workforce supports.
In child protective services, further providing for notification to department and development of plan of safe care for children under one year of age.
In human services generally, reorganizing provisions relating to adoption opportunities and to family finding and kinship care; and making editorial changes.
In Pharmaceutical Assistance for the Elderly, further providing for the pharmaceutical assistance contract for the elderly needs enhancement tier, for board, for powers of the department and for coordination of benefits.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly Needs Enhancement Tier, for powers of the department and for coordination of benefits.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
Providing for access to congregate care facilities for essential caregivers, for additional safety requirements for residents of congregate care facilities, for suspension of access for essential caregivers and for costs associated with safety measures related to essential caregivers.
Further providing for Pennsylvania Long-term Care Council.
Further providing for title of act, for intent, for definitions, for primary caregiver support program, for reimbursements, for entitlement not created and for enforcement.
In emergency COVID-19 response, providing for a long-term care facility ventilation grant program.
Providing for essential family caregivers in facilities during disaster emergencies.
Establishing the LGBTQ Senior Community Grant Program; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Aging; and making an appropriation.
Further providing for title of act, for intent, for definitions, for primary caregiver support program, for reimbursements, for entitlement not created and for enforcement.
Further providing for definitions and for Newborn Child Screening and Follow-up Program; and providing for mandated screening and follow-up.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for definitions.
Providing for access to long-term care facilities for essential caregivers, for additional safety requirements for residents of long-term care facilities, for suspension of access for essential caregivers and for personal protective equipment for essential caregivers.
Further providing for title of act, for intent, for definitions, for primary caregiver support program, for reimbursements, for entitlement not created and for enforcement.
Providing for essential family caregivers in facilities during disaster emergencies.
Establishing the Long-Term Care Facility Personal Protective Equipment Reimbursement Grant Program and imposing duties on the Department of Aging.
In child protective services, further providing for notification to department and development of plan of safe care for children under one year of age.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for income verification.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for the definition of "income."
In State lottery, further providing for powers and duties of secretary.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
In child protective services, further providing for penalties.
Extensively revising provisions on older adults protective services relating to preliminary provisions, administration, criminal history for employees, reporting suspected abuse by employees and miscellaneous provisions; and imposing penalties.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in medical assistance hearings and appeals, further providing for definitions; in public welfare generally, providing for adoption opportunities and for family finding and kinship care; establishing the Kinship Care Program and the Subsidized Permanent Legal Custodianship Program; making related repeals; and making editorial changes.
In child protective services, further providing for penalties.
In child protective services, providing for study to determine drug abuse by parents within resource families; and establishing the Selection and Advisory Council.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further defining "income" to exclude certain veterans' disability payments.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for definitions, providing for medication synchronization, further providing for the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly Needs Enhancement Tier and for board, providing for medication therapy management and further providing for coordination of benefits.
Establishing the Kinship Caregiver Navigator Program in the Department of Human Services; and providing for kinship caregiver navigator website and for kinship caregiver navigators.
Providing for older adults protective services and imposing penalties; and making a related repeal.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for the definition of "income."
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions and for right to enter and inspect.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for income verification.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for income verification.
In child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse.
In child protective services, further providing for establishment of Statewide toll-free telephone number, for disposition and expunction of unfounded reports and general protective services reports, for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents, for volunteers having contact with children and for mandatory reporting of children under one year of age.
In administration, further providing for duties of department and area agencies on aging.
In children and youth, further providing for adoption opportunity payments and reimbursement.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for definitions, providing for medication synchronization, further providing for the board and providing for medication therapy management.
In criminal history for employees, further providing for provisional employees for limited periods.
In Pharmaceutical Assistance for the Elderly, further providing for definitions.
Establishing a task force on the opioid abuse epidemic's impact on children and providing for powers and duties of the task force.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for definitions, providing for medication synchronization, further providing for the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly Needs Enhancement Tier and for board and providing for medication therapy management.
Providing for background checks for applicants and recipients.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further defining "income" to exclude certain veterans' disability payments.
Providing for the establishment, implementation and administration of a comprehensive retiree welfare-to-work mentoring program for certain individuals; and imposing additional powers and duties on the Department of Aging.
Providing for older adult services, establishing penalties and making a repeal.
Further providing for definitions.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for definitions, for program generally and for generic drugs, providing for medication synchronization, further providing for the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly Needs Enhancement Tier (PACENET) and for board, providing for medication therapy management and further providing for coordination of benefits.
Requiring certain hospitals to allow patients an opportunity to designate caregivers in patients' medical records and imposing duties on hospitals.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
Providing for sex trafficking and missing and abducted children; in uniform interstate family support, making extensive revisions to general provisions, jurisdiction, civil provisions of general application, establishment of support order, direct enforcement of order of another state without registration, enforcement and modification of support order after registration, determination of parentage, interstate rendition and miscellaneous provisions and providing for support proceeding under convention; and, in juvenile matters, further providing for definitions and for disposition of dependent children.
Establishing the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community Program; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Aging.
Providing for activities and experiences for children in out-of-home placements.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further providing for the definition of "income."
In Pharmaceutical Assistance for the Elderly, further providing for definitions.
Establishing the Pennsylvania Long-term Care Council; providing for its powers and duties; and repealing related provisions of the Public Welfare Code.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for the definition of "exploitation."
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in criminal history for employees, repealing provisions relating to definitions, further providing for information relating to prospective facility personnel, for grounds for denying employment and for provisional employees for limited periods; providing for registry of home care workers; and making editorial changes.
In child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse.
Providing for background checks for applicants and recipients.
In pharmaceutical assistance for the elderly, further defining "income" to exclude certain veterans' disability payments.
In child protective services, further providing for release of information in confidential reports.
Providing for the establishment, implementation and administration of a comprehensive retiree welfare-to-work mentoring program for certain individuals; and imposing additional powers and duties on the Department of Aging.
Authorizing the Department of Aging to license and inspect community adult respite services programs; defining "community adult respite service providers"; and imposing additional powers and duties on the Department of Aging.
In child protective services, further providing for exchange of information.
In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment and for grounds for involuntary termination; and in adoption, further providing for definitions, for filing information with registry and for original birth record.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions and for exclusions from child abuse.
Further providing for definitions and for child identification, assessment and tracking system.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study new approaches to family work support programs.
Further providing for definitions and for child identification, assessment and tracking system.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for establishment of Statewide database, for disposition of founded and indicated reports, for expunction of information of perpetrator under the age of 18, for amendment or expunction of information, for information relating to prospective child-care personnel, for information relating to family day-care home residents, for information relating to other persons having contact with children, for cooperation of other agencies and for reports to Governor and General Assembly; repealing provisions relating to students in public and private schools and for background checks for employment in schools; and making a related repeal.
In child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse; providing for privileged communications; and further providing for penalties for failure to report or to refer.
In child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse; and providing for protection from employment discrimination.
In provisions and responsibilities for reporting suspected child abuse, further providing for definitions, for persons required to report suspected child abuse, for persons permitted to report suspected child abuse, for reporting procedure, for documentary evidence on a child subject to report and for taking child into protective custody; in organization and responsibilities of child protective service, repealing provisions relating to taking child into protective custody; and, in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for education and training.
In Commonwealth agency fees, further providing for the Department of Health; and providing for children's advocacy centers.
Designating the month of April 2014 as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" in Pennsylvania.
In child protective services, further providing for services for prevention, investigation and treatment of child abuse.
In Pharmaceutical Assistance for the Elderly, further defining "income"; and further providing for determination of eligibility.
In child protective services, further providing for services for prevention, investigation and treatment of child abuse and for investigation of reports.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; providing for exclusions from child abuse; further providing for disposition of founded and indicated reports, for amendment or expunction of information, for investigation of reports and for evidence in court proceedings.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; and providing for expunction of information of perpetrator who was under 18 years of age when child abuse was committed.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for immunity from liability, for establishment of pending complaint file, for Statewide central register and file of unfounded reports and for amendment or expunction of information; and making editorial changes.
In child protective services, further providing for disposition of founded and indicated reports, for amendment or expunction of information, for investigation of reports; and for evidence in court proceedings.
Further providing for penalties for failure to report or to refer.
Establishing the Pennsylvania Long-term Care Council; providing for its powers and duties; and repealing related provisions of the Public Welfare Code.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; and making editorial changes.
Providing for family conferencing.
Establishing the Pennsylvania Long-term Care Council; providing for its powers and duties; and repealing related provisions of the Public Welfare Code.
In children and youth, providing for purpose and for county purchase of services.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; providing for advanced communication technologies and for regulations; further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse, for reporting procedure, for photographs, medical tests and X-rays of child subject to report, for establishment of Statewide toll-free telephone number, for continuous availability of Department of Public Welfare and for disposition of complaints received; providing for responsibility for investigation; and further providing for information in Statewide central register, for continuous availability to receive reports and for education and training.
In child protective services, further providing for persons permitted to report suspected child abuse.
Providing for background checks for applicants and recipients.
Further defining "income" to exclude certain veterans' disability payments.
Providing for a single pharmacy benefits manager for a Drug Utilization Review Committee and its duties and for rebate agreements governing reimbursement by certain public plans; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Aging.
Requiring background checks of persons who coach youth athletic teams.
Further providing for release of information in confidential reports.
Further providing for the definition of "child abuse."
In kidnapping, further providing for missing children; providing for a clearinghouse for missing children; and imposing powers and duties on the Pennsylvania State Police, school districts and parents.
In Department of Aging, further providing for powers and duties in general.
Further defining "facility"; and further providing for information relating to prospective facility personnel.
Requiring background checks of persons who coach youth athletic teams.
In criminal history for employees, further providing for information relating to prospective facility personnel.
Establishing the Alzheimer's Disease State Planning Committee within the Department of Aging; and providing for its powers and duties.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study new approaches to family work support programs.
Further defining "facility"; defining "chronic dementia" and "cognitive impairment"; and providing for certain disclosures to facility residents.
Providing for uniform adult guardianship and protective proceedings jurisdiction.
Providing for child abuse recognition and reporting training.
Further providing for definitions, for persons required to report suspected child abuse, for reporting procedure, for immunity from liability and for penalties for failure to report or to refer; providing for false reports of child abuse; and further providing for release of information in confidential reports, for school employees, for administration, for investigation, for responsibilities of county agency for child protective services and for investigation of reports.
In children and youth, providing for purpose and for county purchase of services.
Requiring certain long-term care facilities to coordinate with licensing agencies and local area agencies on aging to provide assistance to consumers in circumstances involving relocation of consumers; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Aging.
Establishing an independent informal dispute resolution process for long-term care nursing facilities to dispute Department of Health survey deficiencies; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Further providing for intent, for definitions, for caregiver support program, for reimbursements and for entitlement not created.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; and providing for a children's ombudsman and remedial powers, for response to complaints, for cooperation of agencies and providers, for confidentiality of investigations and records, for findings and recommendations, for protection from retaliation and for nonexclusivity of remedy.
Establishing the Task Force on Child Protection.
Further providing for release of information in confidential reports.
Establishing an independent informal dispute resolution process for long-term care nursing facilities to dispute Department of Health survey deficiencies; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
In Pharmaceutical Assistance for the Elderly, further providing for determination of eligibility.
Further providing for definitions, for immunity from liability, for complaint files and for amendment or expunction of information.
Further providing for definitions, for persons required to report suspected child abuse, for reporting procedure and for immunity from liability; providing for false reports of child abuse; and further providing for release of information in confidential reports, for school employees, for administration, for investigation, for responsibilities of county agency for child protective services and for investigation of reports.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for immunity from liability, for complaint files and for amendment or expunction of information.
Providing for a single pharmacy benefits manager for a Drug Utilization Review Committee and its duties and for rebate agreements governing reimbursement by certain public plans; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Aging.
Further providing for intent, for definitions, for caregiver support program, for reimbursements and for entitlement not created.
Further defining "income" to exclude certain veterans' disability payments.
Further providing for the definition of "child abuse."
Further providing for legislative policy, for definitions, for involuntary intervention by emergency court order, for information relating to prospective facility personnel and for grounds for denying employment; providing for certificate of employability; further providing for provisional employees for limited periods; providing for requirements concerning employees, for comparison study by Department of Aging and for applicability relating to criminal history for employees.
Providing for the establishment, implementation and administration of a comprehensive retiree welfare-to-work mentoring program for certain individuals; and imposing additional powers and duties on the Department of Aging.
In kidnapping, further providing for missing children; providing for a clearinghouse for missing children; and imposing powers and duties on the Pennsylvania State Police, school districts and parents.
In Department of Aging, further providing for powers and duties in general.
Providing for requirements for children in foster care and for grievance policy and procedure.
Providing for protection of abused, neglected, exploited or abandoned adults; establishing a uniform Statewide reporting and investigative system for suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment of adults; providing for protective services; and prescribing penalties.
In general budget implementation, further providing for the Department of Aging.
Designating April 16, 2010, as "Healthcare Decisions Day" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing, in child protective services, for definitions, for persons required to report suspected child abuse and for reporting procedure; providing for immunity; and further providing for establishment of pending complaint file, Statewide central register and file of unfounded reports, for continuous availability of department, for disposition of complaints received, for information in pending complaint and unfounded report files, for disposition of unfounded reports, for disposition of founded and indicated reports, for release of information in confidential reports, for cooperation of other agencies, for reports to Governor and General Assembly, for students in public and private schools and for responsibilities of county agency for child protective status.
Further providing for the definition of "child abuse."
Providing for child abuse recognition and reporting training.
Establishing naturally occurring retirement communities; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Aging.
Establishing the Department of Aging and Long-Term Living and providing for its powers and duties; and making related repeals.
Further providing for the definition of "income."
Further providing for legislative policy, for definitions, for involuntary intervention by emergency court order, for information relating to prospective facility personnel and for grounds for denying employment; providing for certificate of employability; further providing for provisional employees for limited periods; providing for requirements concerning employees, for comparison study by Department of Aging and for applicability relating to criminal history for employees.
Establishing the Department of Aging and Long-Term Living and providing for its powers and duties; and making related repeals.
Further providing for immunity from liability and for complaint files and providing for certain appeals.
Requiring certain long-term care facilities to coordinate with licensing agencies and local area agencies on aging to provide assistance to consumers in circumstances involving relocation of consumers; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Aging.
Further defining "facility"; providing for the definitions of "chronic dementia" and "cognitive impairment" and for certain disclosures to facility residents; and making editorial changes.
Requiring public notices relating to long-term care providers; and providing for compliance and enforcement, for certain information to be posted on the Internet, for certain information to be provided directly to consumers and consumers' designated persons and for certain duties of Commonwealth agencies responsible for licensure, certification and other approval of long-term care providers.
Further defining "facility"; and further providing for reporting by employees, for reports to department and coroner and for penalties.
Further providing for intent, for definitions, for caregiver support program, for reimbursements and for entitlement.
Further providing for the definition of "exploitation."
Recognizing April 2009 as "Children and Nature Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In Department of Aging, further providing for powers and duties in general.
Providing for the establishment, implementation and administration of a comprehensive retiree welfare-to-work mentoring program for certain individuals; and imposing additional powers and duties on the Department of Aging.
In kidnapping, further providing for missing children; providing for a clearinghouse for missing children; and imposing powers and duties on the Pennsylvania State Police, school districts and parents.
Establishing the Grandparent Caregiver Support Program.
Establishing a subsidy guardianship program for grandparent or relative caregivers of children in the custody of children and youth services.