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Designating the month of April 2026 as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" in Pennsylvania.
In juvenile matters, further providing for informal adjustment; and making an editorial change.
In juvenile matters, further providing for release or holding of hearing, for disposition of delinquent child and for limitation on and change in place of commitment and disposition review hearing.
In certification of teachers, further providing for child abuse recognition and reporting training; and, in terms and courses of study, providing for child abuse awareness and prevention.
In jurisdiction and parties, further providing for representation; in proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for home study and preplacement report; providing for adoption intermediary services and advertising; establishing the Adoption Intermediary Services Fund; and imposing penalties.
Recognizing the week of April 11 through 17, 2026, as "Week of the Young Child" in Pennsylvania.
Establishing the Statewide Children's Literacy Program and the Children's Literacy Program of Pennsylvania Restricted Account; and imposing duties on the Department of Education.
Providing for duties of covered entities to protect the best interests of children that use online services, products or features and for data protection impact assessments; prohibiting certain actions by covered entities; and imposing penalties.
Designating the week of November 17 through 21, 2025, as "Pennsylvania Education for Students Experiencing Homelessness Awareness Week" and November 21, 2025, as "Red Shirt Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2025 as "Childhood Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of October 5 through 11, 2025, as "National Midwifery Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of April 2025 as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of November 2025 as "Children's Grief Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In offenses against the family, further providing for the offense of endangering welfare of children; in child protective services, further providing for definitions and for exclusions from child abuse; and, in juvenile matters, further providing for definitions.
Further providing for title of act, for legislative purpose, for definitions, for lead poisoning prevention, assessment and testing, for duties of department and for blood lead assessment and testing coverage.
In public assistance, providing for subsidized child care and notification requirements.
In child protective services, further providing for exclusions from child abuse.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to study the impact of private equity in child care and make recommendations for limiting negative effects.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for benefits.
Requiring baby diaper changing stations in certain public buildings when a restroom is installed or renovated; and imposing penalties.
In support matters generally, further providing for paternity; and, in general provisions relating to children and minors, further providing for blood tests to determine paternity.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for child care center attendance eligibility.
Recognizing the month of September 2025 as "Infant Mortality Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing October 3, 2025, as "Kids Music Day" in Pennsylvania.
In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for relinquishment to adult intending to adopt child, for alternative procedure for relinquishment and for petition for involuntary termination; and providing for reinstatement of parental rights.
In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for grounds for involuntary termination; and, in juvenile matters, further providing for disposition of dependent child.
In children and youth, further providing for availability of services, providing for purposes and further providing for statistics and assistance for research.
In children and youth, providing for ensuring safe and humane institutional practices.
In children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children and for review of county submissions.
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 early learning programs, further providing for definitions.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on the best practices and recommendations for the operation of juvenile detention centers within this Commonwealth.
Providing for Child Care Staff Recruitment and Retention Program.
In epinephrine auto-injector entities, further providing for definitions and for epinephrine auto-injectors for authorized entities; and making an editorial change.
In intestate succession, further providing for rules of succession; in administration and personal representatives, providing for liability of executor; in proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for rules of succession, for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment and for hearing; in support matters generally, further providing general administration of support matters, repealing provisions relating to paternity and further providing for continuing jurisdiction over support orders; in general provisions relating to children and minors, repealing provisions relating to acknowledgment and claim of paternity; in jurisdiction, further providing for bases for jurisdiction over nonresident; enacting the Uniform Parentage Act; providing for parent-child relationship for certain individuals, for voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, for genetic testing, for proceeding to adjudicate parentage, for assisted reproduction, for surrogacy agreements and for information about donors; and, in organization and jurisdiction of courts of common pleas, further providing for original jurisdiction and venue.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for reporting procedure, for disposition of complaints received, for responsibility for investigation, for access to information in Statewide database, for information in Statewide database and for release of information in confidential reports.
Establishing the Maternal Health Monitoring Pilot Program.
Designating the month of May 2025 as "Month of May (MOM) Mom Month" in Pennsylvania.
In child protective services, further providing for disposition and expunction of unfounded reports and general protective services reports and for disposition of founded and indicated reports, repealing provisions relating to expunction of information of perpetrator who was under 18 years of age when child abuse was committed and further providing for amendment or expunction of information and for evidence in court proceedings; and making editorial changes.
Providing for the implementation of the child welfare case management subsystem of the enterprise case management system of the Department of Human Services.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
Designating May 5, 2025, as "Youth Advocacy Day" in Pennsylvania.
In general provisions relating to children and minors, providing for contracting and consent by certain minors.
Establishing the Office of Child Advocate; and imposing penalties.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for carbon monoxide alarm standards in child care centers and family child care homes.
In support matters generally, providing for support of unborn child.
Recognizing the week of April 11 through 17, 2025, as "Black Maternal Health Week" in Pennsylvania to bring attention to the maternal health crisis and the importance of reducing maternal mortality and morbidity among Black women.
Recognizing April 11, 2025, as "Black Doula Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of April 5 through 11, 2025, as "Week of the Young Child" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing March 14, 2025, as "Black Midwives Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing April 26, 2025, as "Diabetic Eye Screening Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of April 11 through 17, 2025, as "Black Maternal Health Week" in Pennsylvania to bring attention to the maternal health crisis and the importance of reducing maternal mortality and morbidity among Black women and birthing persons.
In grounds and buildings, repealing provisions relating to room or building for juvenile offenders awaiting trial and providing for rooms or buildings for juveniles; and repealing provisions relating to special provisions for temporary county buildings and for rooms in county buildings in counties of the second class A.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for refusal to issue license, revocation and notice; and imposing penalties.
Requiring child-care centers to install video camera surveillance systems; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
Providing for Maternal Care Access Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Providing for the Ebony Alert System; imposing duties on the Pennsylvania State Police; and imposing a penalty.
Designating January 23, 2025, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania to recognize all the women who die from complications of pregnancy or childbirth.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study of emergency child care and provide recommendations.
Requiring indoor contamination assessment certifications and environmental quality certifications of child day-care centers; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Human Services; establishing the Child Day-Care Center Grant Program; and imposing penalties.
Designating the week of November 11 through 15, 2024, as "Pennsylvania Education for Students Experiencing Homelessness Awareness Week" and November 15, 2024, as "Red Shirt Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for the Ebony Alert System; imposing duties on the Pennsylvania State Police; and imposing a penalty.
In children and youth, further providing for availability of services, providing for purposes, further providing for payments to counties for services to children, for review of county submissions and for statistics and assistance for research, providing for ensuring safe and humane institutional practices and further providing for study of delinquents and recommendations to courts; and, in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for refusal to issue license, revocation and notice.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for benefits.
Further providing for authority to administer injectable medications, biologicals and immunizations and for laboratory waiver.
Providing for duties of covered entities to protect the best interests of children that use online services, products or features and for data protection impact assessments; prohibiting certain actions by covered entities; and imposing penalties.
In support matters generally, further providing for support guideline; and, in child custody, further providing for definitions, for award of custody and for presumption in cases concerning primary physical custody.
In child custody, further providing for standing for partial physical custody and supervised physical custody.
Providing for plan for maternal home visiting programs; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services.
Establishing the Office of Child Advocate; and imposing penalties.
In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment and for hearing; in support matters generally, further providing for paternity and for continuing jurisdiction over support orders; in general provisions relating to children and minors, repealing provisions relating to acknowledgment and claim of paternity; in jurisdiction, further providing for bases for jurisdiction over nonresident; enacting the Uniform Parentage Act; and providing for parent-child relationship for certain individuals, for voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, for genetic testing, for proceeding to adjudicate parentage, for assisted reproduction, for surrogacy agreements and for information about donors.
Designating May 10, 2024, as "Child-Care Provider Appreciation Day" in Pennsylvania.
Establishing the Statewide Advisory Council on Playground Safety; and providing for duties of the Statewide Advisory Council on Playground Safety.
In child custody, further providing for definitions, for award of custody, for standing for partial physical custody and supervised physical custody, for presumption in cases concerning primary physical custody, for factors to consider when awarding custody, for consideration of criminal conviction and for parenting plan; and making editorial changes.
Further providing for definitions and for employment of minors in a performance.
Directing the Department of Health of the Commonwealth to study the impact of smart phones on children's health and development.
In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for grounds for involuntary termination; and, in juvenile matters, further providing for disposition of dependent child.
Designating May 22, 2024, as "Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Day" in Pennsylvania.
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 proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for grounds for involuntary termination.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
Providing for the implementation of the child welfare case management subsystem of the enterprise case management system of the Department of Human Services.
Designating the week of November 13 through 17, 2023, as "Pennsylvania Education for Students Experiencing Homelessness Awareness Week" and November 15, 2023, as "Red Shirt Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of November 2023 as "Infant Safe Sleep Month" in Pennsylvania.
In State institutions in the Department of Public Welfare, providing for reporting allegations of abuse; in departmental powers and duties as to supervision, further providing for definitions; and, in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions, for fees and for right to enter and inspect and providing for inspection of out-of-home placements for youth adjudicated delinquent.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for regulations and for violation and penalty.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for refusal to issue license, revocation and notice; and imposing penalties.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," further providing for release of medical records; and providing for parent or legal guardian access to medical records.
Providing for employee child-care public private partnership; establishing the Employee Child-Care Public Private Partnership Fund and the employee child-care public private partnership tax credit; imposing duties on the Department of Human Services; and imposing a penalty.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study of emergency child care and provide recommendations.
In sex trafficking and missing and abducted children, further providing for county responsibilities; and making an editorial change.
Designating the week of September 18 through 24, 2023, as "Diaper Need Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on the best practices and recommendations for the operation of juvenile detention centers within this Commonwealth.
In juvenile matters, further providing for definitions and for notice and hearing.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions.
Designating January 23, 2024, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania to recognize all the women and birthing people who die from complications of pregnancy or childbirth.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
Further providing for title of the act; in preliminary provisions, further providing for applicability; in grounds and buildings, further providing for scope of subdivision, for room or building for juvenile offenders waiting trial, for management of houses for detention of juveniles and appointment of board and ex officio members, for annual report and expenses and for appropriation and bond issues; and making editorial changes.
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.
Recognizing the month of May 2023 as "Foster Care Month" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for program operation.
Establishing the Women, Infants and Children State Advisory Board.
Designating the week of May 7 through 13, 2023, as "Jewish Day Schools Week" in Pennsylvania and expressing appreciation and gratitude to Jewish day schools across this Commonwealth.
In child custody, further providing for factors to consider when awarding custody and providing for solicitation and consideration of family finding and kinship care provider testimony.
Providing for parental rights protection.
Authorizing the appointment of the Child Advocate; and establishing the Office of Child Advocate and the HEAL PA Coalition.
In child protective services, further providing for investigation of reports.
In child protective services, further providing for organization for child protective services.
In child protective services, further providing for disposition and expunction of unfounded reports and general protective services reports and for disposition of founded and indicated reports, repealing provisions relating to expunction of information of perpetrator who was under 18 years of age when child abuse was committed and further providing for amendment or expunction of information; and making editorial changes.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
Prohibiting governmental action against parents, legal custodians and legal guardians of minors in the provision of certain information and services to minors; and providing for certain protection from child abuse claims.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
Providing for blood lead assessment and testing of certain children and pregnant women by health care providers; imposing duties on the Department of Health; and requiring certain health insurance policies to cover blood lead tests.
Providing for resource families; making editorial changes; and making related repeals.
In miscellaneous provisions, providing for miscellaneous provisions; and making an editorial change.
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.
Establishing the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Greater Father Involvement within the Joint State Government Commission and providing for its powers and duties.
Establishing the Office of Child Advocate within the Department of Health; appointing the Child Advocate; and providing for their powers and duties.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a comprehensive study of statutes and regulations promulgated under Titles 23 and 67 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes and the Human Services Code in the past five years currently in effect in this Commonwealth that have exacerbated trauma in children and families and make recommendations of methods to draft statutes and regulations in a trauma-informed manner to mitigate trauma.
In family finding and kinship care, providing for Legal Services for Kinship Care Families Grant Program; establishing the Legal Services for Kinship Care Families Grant Fund; and making an appropriation.
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 departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions.
In child protective services, providing for information for school districts.
Establishing the Women, Infants and Children State Advisory Board.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child care to install video camera surveillance systems; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
Providing for the treatment and prevention of anaphylaxis in schools and child care centers.
In child protective services, further providing for investigation of reports.
In child protective services, providing for multidisciplinary medical team.
In family finding and kinship care, further providing for definitions, for family finding required and for Kinship Care Program.
In child protective services, further providing for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents.
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 human services generally, reorganizing provisions relating to adoption opportunities and to family finding and kinship care; and making editorial changes.
Providing for limitation on damages in action against children and youth social service agency.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for reporting procedure, for disposition of complaints received, for responsibility for investigation, for access to information in Statewide database, for information in Statewide database and for release of information in confidential reports.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and make recommendations concerning the development and implementation of an integrated child welfare information system for child welfare programs overseen by the Department of Human Services and administered by county children and youth agencies.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
In child protective services, further providing for disposition and expunction of unfounded reports and general protective services reports and for disposition of founded and indicated reports, repealing provisions relating to expunction of information of perpetrator who was under 18 years of age when child abuse was committed and further providing for amendment or expunction of information; and making editorial changes.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions.
Providing for the implementation of the child welfare case management subsystem of the enterprise case management system of the Department of Human Services.
Recognizing the harmful effects of adverse childhood experiences on individuals in this Commonwealth.
In child protective services, further providing for organization for child protective services.
Recognizing emotional abuse of children and its deleterious effect on all individuals in this Commonwealth.
Dealing with child abuse: in criminal history record information, further providing for information in central repository or automated systems; and, in organization and responsibilities of Child Protective Service, further providing for services for prevention, investigation and treatment of child abuse.
In human services generally, providing for autism screening.
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.
Establishing the COVID-19 Child Care Grant Program; providing for duties of the Department of Community and Economic Development; and making an appropriation.
Establishing the COVID-19 Childcare for Essential Workers Grant Program to provide grants to essential workers to be used for childcare during the COVID-19 disaster emergency; imposing duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development; and providing for a transfer of Federal money.
Establishing the Keys to Independence Pilot Program.
Providing for child welfare worker education loan assistance.
Establishing the Child Care Grant Program for Front Line Medical Facility Personnel; providing for duties of the Department of Community and Economic Development; establishing the Child Care Grant Program for Front Line Medical Facility Personnel Fund; and making an appropriation.
Providing for temporary services to aging-out individuals through county agencies; and imposing duties on county agencies and the Department of Human Services.
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.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to study the fiscal impact of a timely and expeditious versus a delayed implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act on the Commonwealth's funding under Part E of Title IV of the Social Security Act.
Recognizing May 25, 2020, as "National Missing Children's Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of April 2020 as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating April 21, 2020, as "Court Appointed Special Advocates Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of March 2020 as "Youth Art Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating November 19, 2020, as "Children's Grief Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing November 1, 2020, as "National Family Literacy Day" in Pennsylvania.
In child protective services, further providing for employees having contact with children; adoptive and foster parents.
In child protective services, further providing for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents.
Designating the month of October 2020 as "Halloween Safety Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating October 5, 2020, as "Anti-bullying Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania in support of those working hard to raise awareness of bullying and prevent its occurrence.
Establishing the COVID-19 Childcare for Essential Workers Grant Program and the COVID-19 Childcare for Essential Workers Fund to provide grants to essential workers to be used for childcare during the COVID-19 disaster emergency; imposing duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development; and providing for a transfer of Federal money.
Establishing the COVID-19 Child Care Grant Program and the COVID-19 Child Care Fund; providing for duties of the Department of Community and Economic Development; and making an appropriation.
In public assistance, providing for child care payments during the pandemic of 2020.
In child protective services, further providing for amendment or expunction of information and for investigation of reports.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision, providing for requirements specific to school-age programs.
Directing the Children and Youth Committee to establish a subcommittee to investigate the alleged sexual abuse committed by William McKendry while he was a teacher in the Lower Merion School District.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision, providing for Keystone STARS Program participants; and, in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for fees, providing for Keystone STARS Program participants and further providing for definition.
Recognizing the week of April 11 through 17, 2020, as "Week of the Young Child" in Pennsylvania.
In adoption opportunities, further providing for definitions.
Providing for limitation on damages in actions against entities for children.
In offenses against the family, providing for the offense of unregulated transfer of custody of a child.
Recognizing the month of May 2020 as "Foster Care Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of June 1 through 5, 2020, as "Child Welfare Professionals Appreciation Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of June 8 through 12, 2020, as "Child Welfare Service Providers Appreciation Week" in Pennsylvania.
In child protective services, further providing for notification to department and development of plan of safe care for children under one year of age.
Establishing the Child Care Grant Program for Front Line Medical Facility Personnel; providing for duties of the Department of Community and Economic Development; establishing the Child Care Grant Program for Front Line Medical Facility Personnel Fund; and making an appropriation.
Recognizing the harmful effects of adverse childhood experiences on individuals in this Commonwealth.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a comprehensive study on the education provided to children, dependent children and youths 6 through 21 years of age in juvenile and adult correctional facilities in this Commonwealth.
Providing for blood lead testing of certain children by health care practitioners; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Recognizing the month of January 2020 as "National Mentoring Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating January 23, 2020, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania to recognize all the women who die from complications of pregnancy or childbirth.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish an advisory committee to conduct a study of the Commonwealth's current return on investments regarding after-school programs and provide feedback on developing a means to capture outcomes for the purpose of bolstering return on investments for after-school programs.
Recognizing emotional abuse of children and its deleterious effect on all individuals in this Commonwealth.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for reporting procedure, for disposition of complaints received, for responsibility for investigation, for access to information in Statewide database, for information in Statewide database and for release of information in confidential reports.
Setting forth the Commonwealth's policy on child well-being in Pennsylvania and recognizing the urgent need for greater father involvement in the lives of their children.
Designating the month of November 2019 as "Family Caregiver Month" in Pennsylvania.
In child protective services, further providing for penalties.
Designating the month of November 2019 as "Infant Safe Sleep Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing November 23, 2019, as "National Adoption Day" in Pennsylvania.
In child protective services, further providing for release of information in confidential reports and for exchange of information.
Recognizing October 7, 2019, as "Blue Shirt Day World Day of Bullying Prevention" in Pennsylvania in support of those working hard to raise awareness of bullying and preventing its occurrence.
Recognizing October 24, 2019, as "Lights On Afterschool Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for child welfare worker education loan assistance.
Designating the month of November 2019 as "Childhood Brain Stem Glioma Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania; and designating November 11, 2019, as "Jax Stone Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of October 2019 as "Bullying Prevention Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania to help Pennsylvanians recognize bullying, stop bullying and gain the tools needed to appropriately deal with situations involving bullies.
Designating November 21, 2019, as "Children's Grief Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of October 2019 as "Halloween Safety Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of August 2019 as "Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of August 1 through 7, 2019, as "World Breastfeeding Week" in Pennsylvania and supporting breastfeeding as a way to enhance the well-being of all individuals worldwide.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions.
Recognizing July 28, 2019, as "Parents' Day" in Pennsylvania.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions and for release of information in confidential reports; and providing for a Children's Advocate 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.
In support matters generally, further providing for costs and fees and for State disbursement unit.
In petition for adoption, further providing for consents necessary to adoption; in support matters generally, further providing for costs and fees and for State disbursement unit; and, in child protective services, further proving for employees having contact with children, adoptive and foster parents and for volunteers having contact with children.
An act amending Title 67 (Public Welfare) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, 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 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 investigation of reports.
In public assistance, providing for effect of postsecondary education and work force training on subsidized child care.
Establishing a task force on the opioid abuse epidemic's impact on children and providing for powers and duties of the task force.
Urging the Department of Human Services to investigate child abuse in all child residential and day treatment facilities in this Commonwealth and make policy recommendations regarding the decades of abuse uncovered at the Glen Mills Schools.
Requiring information relating to parenting and prenatal depression, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and other emotional trauma counseling and screening to be provided to a pregnant woman; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Establishing the Keys to Independence Pilot Program.
Providing for parental rights protection.
In child protective services, further providing for exclusions from child abuse.
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 children and youth, further providing for adoption opportunity payments and reimbursement.
Providing for family conferencing.
In adoption, further providing for report of intention to adopt, for consents necessary to adoption and for notice of hearing.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child day care to install safety guards on doors; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child care to install video camera surveillance systems; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
In adoption, further providing for home study and preplacement report and for report of intention to adopt, repealing provisions relating to report of intermediary and exhibits, further providing for investigation, for contents of petition for adoption and for exhibits, providing for permissible reimbursement of expenses and further providing for time of entry of decree of adoption.
In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, repealing provisions relating to counseling and providing for adoption-related counseling services.
In child protective services, further providing for investigating performance of county agency.
Establishing the Kinship Caregiver Navigator Program in the Department of Human Services; and providing for kinship caregiver navigator website and for kinship caregiver navigators.
In standby guardianship, further providing for definitions and for scope and providing for temporary guardianship; in child protective services, further providing for release of information in confidential reports; and making editorial changes.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision, providing for Keystone STARS Program participants; and, in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for fees, providing for Keystone STARS Program participants and further providing for definitions.
In child protective services, further providing for penalties.
In adoption, further providing for home study and preplacement report and for report of intention to adopt, repealing provisions relating to report of intermediary and exhibits, further providing for investigation, for contents of petition for adoption and for exhibits, providing for permissible reimbursement of expenses and further providing for time of entry of decree of adoption.
In adoption, further providing for definitions, for hearing, for grounds for involuntary termination and for petition for involuntary termination, providing for notice if identity or whereabouts of birth parent or putative father unknown, further providing for consents necessary to adoption and repealing provisions relating to consents not naming adopting parents.
In child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse.
In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, repealing provisions relating to counseling and providing for adoption-related counseling services.
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 academic clinical research centers, further providing for chapter heading, providing for legislative findings and declaration of policy, further providing for definitions, providing for academic clinical research centers, further providing for clinical registrants and for research study and providing for temporary regulations.
In adoption, further providing for report of intention to adopt, for consents necessary to adoption and for notice of hearing.
In child protective services, further providing for investigating performance of county agency.
Establishing the Early Intervention Services Contingency Fund; providing for transfers from the Early Intervention Services Contingency Fund to lead agencies and for reporting; and making editorial changes.
Further providing for title of the act, for definitions and for child identification, assessment and tracking system; and making editorial changes.
In children and youth, further providing for adoption opportunity payments and reimbursement.
In preliminary provisions relating to adoption, further providing for the definition of "intermediary."
In child protective services, further providing for exclusions from child abuse.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions and for release of information in confidential reports and providing for a Children's Advocate 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.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to study the trend of grandfamilies in Pennsylvania and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly.
In child protective services, further providing for mandatory reporting of children under one year of age.
In general powers and duties, providing for salary, medical and hospital expenses for employees of the Department of Human Services and survivors' benefits and for evaluation of software programs' efficiency; in public assistance, providing for total population coordinated care management, for medical assistance waiver for treatment at institutions for mental disease related to substance use disorder, for additional funding requests for medical assistance appropriations in fiscal year 2017-2018, for supporting self-sufficiency for medical assistance receipients and for electronic asset verification for medical assistance eligibility based on age, blindness or disability; in children and youth, further providing for provider submissions and for adoption opportunity payments and reimbursement; providing for ambulatory surgical center data collection; and making a related repeal.
In child custody, further providing for definitions, for standing for partial physical custody and supervised physical custody and for factors to consider when awarding custody; and making editorial changes.
In child protective services, further providing for mandatory reporting of children under one year of age.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the cost of providing high quality child-care services compared to existing child-care subsidy rates of the Commonwealth.
In standby guardianship, further providing for definitions and for petition for approval of a designation.
Providing for parental rights protection.
Establishing a task force on the opioid abuse epidemic's impact on children and providing for powers and duties of the task force.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions and for regulations.
Providing for school stability of children in foster care; and making an inconsistent repeal.
Providing for family conferencing.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child day care to install safety guards on doors; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
In adoption, further providing for definitions, for hearing and for petition for involuntary termination, providing for notice if identity or whereabouts of parent or putative father unknown, further providing for consents necessary to adoption and repealing provisions relating to consents not naming adopting parents.
In adoption, further providing for report of intention to adopt, for consents necessary to adoption and for notice of hearing.
In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for alternative procedure for relinquishment.
Providing for parental rights protection.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child day care to install video camera surveillance systems; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
In children and youth, providing for purchase of service contracts.
In child protective services, further providing for the definition of "child abuse."
In child protective services, further providing for volunteers having contact with children.
Regulating religious child-care facilities; providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Human Services; and imposing 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 adoption, providing for permissible reimbursement of expenses.
In adoption, further providing for definitions and for original birth record.
In adoption, further providing for definitions, for hearing and for petition for involuntary termination, providing for notice if identity or whereabouts of parent or putative father unknown, further providing for consents necessary to adoption and repealing provisions relating to consents not naming adopting parents.
In children and youth, further providing for adoption opportunity payments and reimbursement.
In petition for adoption, further providing for consents necessary to adoption.
In child protective services, providing for study to determine drug abuse by parents within resource families.
Establishing a task force on the opioid abuse epidemic's impact on children and providing for powers and duties of the task force.
In child protective services, further providing for volunteers having contact with children.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, 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 recertification.
In adoption, further providing for report of intention to adopt, for consents necessary to adoption and for notice of hearing.
In adoption, repealing provisions relating to counseling and providing for adoption-related counseling services.
In adoption, further providing for home study and preplacement report and for report of intention to adopt, repealing provisions relating to report of intermediary and exhibits, further providing for investigation, for contents of petition for adoption and for exhibits, providing for permissible reimbursement of expenses and further providing for time of entry of decree of adoption.
In adoption, further providing for the definition of "intermediary."
In adoption, further providing for alternative procedure for relinquishment.
Supporting the establishment of a Presidential Youth Council.
In general provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in Statewide system for provision of early intervention services, further providing for child identification, assessment and tracking system.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child day care to install safety guards on doors; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
Urging the Congress of the United States to implement a medical exception for children that have serious medical conditions, are 13 years of age or older and are in foster care so that they may be eligible for Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement (APPLA).
Providing for school stability of children in foster care; and making an inconsistent repeal.
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.
Providing for activities and experiences for children in out-of-home placements.
In adoption, further providing for home study and preplacement report and for report of intention to adopt, repealing provisions relating to report of intermediary and exhibits and further providing for investigation, for contents of petition for adoption, for exhibits and for time of entry of decree of adoption.
In child protective services, further providing for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents.
In child protective services, further providing for education and training.
Providing for parental rights protection.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for persons required to report suspected child abuse, for access to information in Statewide database, for release of information in confidential reports, for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents, for information relating to certified or registered day-care home residents, for volunteers having contact with children, for continued employment or participation in program, activity or service, for certification compliance, for education and training and for mandatory reporting of children under one year of age.
Providing for family conferencing.
In miscellaneous provisions, further providing for general regulations; and, in child protective services, further providing for employees having contact with children, adoptive and foster parents.
In child custody, further providing for definitions, for standing for partial physical custody and supervised physical custody and for factors to consider when awarding custody; and making editorial changes.
In child protective services, further providing for the definition of "child abuse."
Further providing for services by county children and youth offices.
In children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children.
In child protective services, further providing for volunteers having contact with children.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child day care to install video camera surveillance systems; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
Providing for financial assistance to foster youth and youth adopted from the foster care system; reducing the long-term costs for taxpayers by enhancing opportunities for youth who are or have been in substitute care; assisting youth who are and have been in substitute care by making college accessible; and encouraging the adoption of youth from substitute care by assisting families with the financing of postsecondary education.
Regulating religious child-care facilities; providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Human Services; and imposing penalties.
Providing for certain limitations on residential care provider contracts; and prohibiting Commonwealth agencies from entering into agreements that provide housing at State-owned facilities to unaccompanied alien children.
In child protective services, further providing for exchange of information.
Amending the title of the act; and further providing for medical foods insurance coverage, for cost-sharing provisions, for regulations and for applicability.
In child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse, for reporting procedure, for confidentiality of reports, for release of information in confidential reports, for information relating to prospective child-care personnel, for information relating to family day-care home residents and for information relating to other persons having contact with children; providing for continued employment or participation in program, activity or service and for certification compliance; making a conforming amendment to Title 42; providing for a study on employment bans for those having contact with children; and making editorial changes.
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.
Providing for activities and experiences for children in out-of-home placements.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for persons required to report suspected child abuse and for investigating performance of county agency; repealing provisions relating to definitions, school employees, administration, investigation, responsibilities of county agency for child protective services and report information; and further providing for services for prevention, investigation and treatment of child abuse.
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 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 child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse; and providing for protection from employment discrimination.
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 education and training.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; providing for electronic reporting and for regulations; further providing for mandatory reporting and postmortem investigation of deaths, for establishment of pending complaint file, Statewide central register and file of unfounded reports, for establishment of Statewide toll-free telephone number, for continuous availability of department and for disposition of complaints received; providing for responsibility for investigation; and further providing for information in pending complaint and unfounded report files, for information in Statewide central register, for disposition of unfounded reports, for disposition of founded and indicated reports, for confidentiality of reports, for release of information in confidential reports, for studies of data in records, for information relating to prospective child-care personnel, for information relating to family day-care home residents, for cooperation of other agencies, for reports to Governor and General Assembly, for penalties and for county agency requirements for general protective services.
In Commonwealth agency fees, further providing for the Department of Health; and providing for children's advocacy centers.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions and for information relating to family day-care home residents.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions and for mandatory reporting of infants.
Further providing for report of intention to adopt.
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; 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 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.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to study youth leadership and community involvement and to establish an advisory committee to conduct a comprehensive survey of existing youth development and leadership programs in this Commonwealth; identify ways in which these programs currently collaborate with and involve youth in community services and activities; and develop recommendations for successful collaborations between youth-serving organizations and local communities.
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.
In public assistance, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care and for medical assistance benefit packages, coverage, copayments, premiums and rates; in children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children and providing for provider submissions; in intermediate care facilities assessments, further providing for time periods and making editorial changes; in hospital assessments, further providing for authorization and for time period; in Statewide quality care assessment, reenacting and further defining "net inpatient revenue," providing for implementation, for administration, for limitations and for expiration; in Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Stabilization, further providing for funding; in kinship care, further providing for scope and for definitions; providing for family finding; and, in human services block grant pilot program, further providing for establishment of human services block grant pilot program, for powers and duties of the department, for powers and duties of counties, for allocation and for use of block grant funds.
Providing for family conferencing.
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 children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children; and providing for county purchase of services.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to identify existing evidence-based child abuse and neglect prevention programs in this Commonwealth and nationwide, evaluate the effectiveness and relative cost of these programs and identify opportunities to integrate child abuse and neglect prevention methods and approaches into Commonwealth programs and policy.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision and licensing, further providing for definitions; and providing for child abuse recognition and reporting training.
In child protective services, further providing for persons permitted to report suspected child abuse.
Further providing for services by county children and youth offices.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child day care to install video camera surveillance systems; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for educational stability of children in out-of-home placement; and making an inconsistent repeal.
In protection from abuse, further providing for commencement of proceedings.
In support matters generally, further providing for support guidelines.
In child protective services, further providing for the disposition of complaints received and for investigating performance of county agency.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; and providing for county agency accreditation.
In adoption, further providing for home study and preplacement report, for report of intention to adopt, for report of intermediary, for exhibits, for investigation, for contents of petition for adoption, for exhibits and for time of entry of decree of adoption.
In adoption, further providing for report of intention to adopt and for consents necessary to adoption; repealing provisions relating to consents not naming adopting parents; and further providing for notice of hearing.
Further providing for education and training.
In children and youth, further providing for adoption opportunity payments and reimbursement.
In adoption, further providing for hearing and for procedure for relinquishment of parental rights.
In adoption, further providing for report of intermediary.
A Joint Resolution proposing integrated amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for hearing and deciding cases involving dissolution of marriage, custody, child support, spousal support, alimony, equitable division of marital property and related family law matters.
Further providing for procedures in domestic relations and litigation; repealing provisions relating to hearing by master, jury trial, mediation programs, fees and costs, review of programs, existing programs and consolidation of proceedings; conferring powers and duties on the unified judicial system, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Legislative Reference Bureau; establishing the Family Justice Account; and making editorial changes.
In adoption, further providing for counseling; and providing for adoption-related counseling services.
In adoption, further providing for the definition of "intermediary" and for report of intermediary.
In adoption, further providing for definitions, for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment, for grounds for involuntary termination and for petition for involuntary termination; providing for notice if identity or whereabouts of parent or putative father unknown; further providing for report of intention to adopt, for report of intermediary and for consents necessary to adoption; and repealing provisions relating to consents not naming adopting parents.
Directing the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to conduct a study concerning child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary investigative teams in this Commonwealth.
Providing for financial assistance to foster youth and youth adopted from the foster care system; reducing the long-term costs for taxpayers by enhancing opportunities for youth who are or have been in substitute care; assisting youth who are and have been in substitute care by making college accessible; and encouraging the adoption of youth from substitute care by assisting families with the financing of postsecondary education.
In children and minors, further providing for definitions, for award of custody, for standing for partial physical custody and supervised physical custody, for effect of adoption and for factors to consider when awarding custody; and making an editorial change.
Establishing the Child Care Health Consultant Task Force and providing for its powers and duties.
In child protective services, further providing for release of information in confidential reports.
Providing for a comprehensive interagency plan for child day-care services and early childhood development services and for the powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare.
Extensively revising provisions on adoption; and making repeals.
Further providing for informal hearing and for disposition of dependent child.
Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.
Regulating religious child-care facilities; providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare; and imposing penalties.
In child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions and for regulations.
Requiring prescription drug benefits and health care policies to provide coverage and reimbursement for amino acid-based elemental formulas for the treatment of a disease or disorder.
Providing for the definition of "child with a disability"; and further providing for inheritance tax.
In adoption, defining "household" and "putative father"; further providing for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment, for grounds for involuntary termination, for petition for involuntary termination; providing for notice if putative father or his whereabouts unknown; further providing for report of intention to adopt and for consents necessary to adoption; and repealing provisions relating to consents not naming adopting parents.
Designating October 11, 2012, as the "Day of the Girl" in Pennsylvania.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions and for regulations.
Providing for child abuse recognition and reporting training.
Providing for family conferencing.
Further providing for informal hearing and for disposition of dependent child.
Providing for educational stability of children in out-of-home placement; and making an inconsistent repeal.
In kinship care, further providing for scope and for definitions; and providing for family finding.
Further providing for penalties for violation of compulsory attendance requirements and for report of children not enrolling, or withdrawing, or being illegally absent.
Providing for termination of county services.
Requiring the Office of Attorney General and the Department of Public Welfare to cooperate with local officials in child abuse matters; and making appropriations.
Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.
In children and youth, providing for purpose; further providing for payments to counties for services to children; and providing for county purchase of services.
A Joint Resolution proposing integrated amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for hearing and deciding cases involving dissolution of marriage, custody, child support, spousal support, alimony, equitable division of marital property and related family law matters.
Further providing for procedures in domestic relations and litigation; repealing provisions relating to hearing by master, jury trial, mediation programs, fees and costs, review of programs, existing programs and consolidation of proceedings; conferring powers and duties on the unified judicial system, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Legislative Reference Bureau; establishing the Family Justice Account; and making editorial changes.
Further providing for information relating to prospective child-care personnel.
In child protective services, further providing for education and training.
Memorializing the Senate of the United States to reject the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Providing for an intergenerational family care pilot program which seeks to aid persons who are not the biological or adoptive parents in raising children; and providing a model for a possible full-scale intergenerational family care program.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to investigate the costs and benefits of prevention and early intervention programs for the children and youth of this Commonwealth.
In support matters generally, further providing for support guidelines.
Providing for dangerous child day-care facilities; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare and law enforcement agencies.
Providing for verification of United States citizenship and immigration status for all children in foster care.
Establishing the Child Care Health Consultant Task Force and providing for its powers and duties.
Providing for a definition of "child"; and further providing for the definition of "medically dependent or technologically dependent child."
Further providing for services by county children and youth offices.
Providing for the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act.
Providing for educational guardianship.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child day care to install video camera surveillance systems; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for medical consent for a minor by an adult caregiver.
Providing for a comprehensive interagency plan for child day-care services and early childhood development services and for the powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for application for registration certificate, for issuance of registration certificate and for records; providing for disclosure; and further providing for emergency closure.
In adoption, further providing for original birth record.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study and submit a report to the General Assembly on the issue of general and comprehensive liability insurance for family day care homes.
Providing for visitation and inspection of family day-care homes and for reporting; and making a related repeal.
Regulating religious child-care facilities; providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare; and imposing penalties.
Memorializing the Congress of the United States to pass the Parental Rights Amendment and submit it to the states for ratification.
Further providing for payments to counties for services to children; and making editorial changes.
Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.
In child protective services, further providing for release of information in confidential reports.
Providing for financial assistance to foster youth and youth adopted from the foster care system; reducing the long-term costs for taxpayers by enhancing opportunities for youth who are or have been in substitute care; assisting youth who are and have been in substitute care by making college accessible; and encouraging the adoption of youth from substitute care by assisting families with the financing of postsecondary education.
Extensively revising provisions on adoption; and making repeals.
Providing for a comprehensive interagency plan for child day-care services and early childhood development services and for the powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare.
In adoption, further providing for home study and preplacement report, for report of intention to adopt, for report of intermediary, for exhibits in report of intermediary, for investigation, for contents of petition for adoption, for exhibits to petition for adoption and for time of entry of decree of adoption.
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.
In adoption, further providing for counseling; and providing for adoption-related counseling services.
In child protective services, further providing for the disposition of complaints received and for investigating performance of county agency.
In adoption, further providing for the definition of "intermediary" and for report of intermediary.
In adoption, further providing for hearing and for procedure for relinquishment of parental rights.
In children and youth, further providing for adoption opportunity payments and reimbursement.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; and providing for county agency accreditation.
In adoption, further providing for report of intermediary.
Providing for requirements for children in foster care and for grievance policy and procedure.
In juvenile matters, further providing for disposition of dependent child.
Imposing a duty on operators and staff persons at certain facilities to contact the parents of children enrolled at the facility under certain circumstances; and providing for administrative fine and for powers and duties of Department of Public Welfare.
In juvenile matters, further providing for disposition of dependent child.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study and submit a report to the General Assembly on the issue of general and comprehensive liability insurance for family day care homes.
Providing for registration by sex offenders and sexually violent predators of Internet accounts and Internet identifiers; establishing a State registry of Internet accounts and Internet identifiers of sex offenders and sexually violent predators; and establishing a matching system for social networking Internet websites.
Further providing for declaration of policy; and providing for information.
Further providing for the Office of Victim Advocate and for powers and duties of victim advocate.
Establishing the Special Juvenile Victim Compensation Fund; and further providing for costs.
A Concurrent Resolution urging the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to implement recommendations made by the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice.
A Concurrent Resolution urging the Governor to implement recommendations made by the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice.
A Concurrent Resolution establishing the Judicial Reform Task Force to make recommendations for amending the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
A Concurrent Resolution urging the Judicial Conduct Board to implement recommendations made by the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice.
Providing for contact information of a county agency to be provided to a dependent child.
Memorializing the Congress of the United States to pass the Parental Rights Amendment and submit it to the states for ratification.
In juvenile matters, further providing for definitions and for disposition of dependent child; and providing for termination of jurisdiction.
Providing for visitation and inspection of family day-care homes and for reporting; and making a repeal.
Providing for dangerous child day-care facilities; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare and law enforcement agencies.
Providing for disposition of agency records upon closure.
Extensively revising provisions on adoption; and making repeals.
Providing for a comprehensive interagency plan for child day-care services and early childhood development services and for the powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare.
Further providing for the Children's Trust Fund.
Mandating full funding of subsidies for child-care programs.
Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish an advisory committee to study the effects of parental incarceration on children of incarcerated parents; to recommend a system for determining and assessing the needs of children of incarcerated parents, services available to them, and barriers to accessing those services; and making a report with recommendations to the House of Representatives by November 30, 2010.
Providing for the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act.
Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.
In juvenile matters, further providing for disposition of dependent child.
Further providing for exception for adopted children; providing for sibling visitation; and making an editorial change.
Further providing for sale of tobacco.
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.
In adoption, further providing for home study and preplacement report, for report of intention to adopt, for report of intermediary, for exhibits in report of intermediary, for investigation, for contents of petition for adoption, for exhibits to petition for adoption and for time of entry of decree of adoption.
Providing for a First Class Cities Children's Ombudsman Office in the Department of Public Welfare, for powers and duties of ombudsman, for investigative and remedial powers, for response to complaints, for cooperation of agencies and providers, for confidentiality of investigators and records, for findings and recommendations, for protection from retaliation, for nonexclusivity of remedy and for release of information to ombudsman; and making inconsistent repeals.
Further providing for application for registration certificate, for issuance of registration certificate and for records; and providing for disclosure.
Providing for financial assistance to foster youth and youth adopted from the foster care system; reducing the long-term costs for taxpayers by enhancing opportunities for youth who are or have been in substitute care; assisting youth who are and have been in substitute care by making college accessible; and encouraging the adoption of youth from substitute care by assisting families with the financing of postsecondary education.
Further providing for award of custody, partial custody or visitation.
In adoption, further providing for counseling; and providing for adoption-related counseling services.
In adoption, further providing for hearing and procedure for relinquishment of parental rights.
Providing for verification of United States citizenship and immigration status for all children in foster care.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions; and providing for quality improvement of county agencies.
In adoption, further providing for report of intention to adopt and for consents necessary to adoption; repealing provisions relating to consents not naming adopting parents; and further providing for notice of hearing.
In child protective services, further providing for the disposition of complaints received and for investigating performance of county agency.
Requiring certain facilities and persons that provide child day care to install video camera surveillance systems; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for educational guardianship.
Providing for medical consent for a minor by an adult caregiver.
In children and youth, further providing for adoption payments and reimbursement.
In adoption, further providing for the definition of "intermediary" and for report of intermediary.
In adoption, further providing for report of intermediary.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to investigate the costs and benefits of prevention and early intervention programs for the children and youth of this Commonwealth.
Defining "breastfeeding"; further providing for unlawful discriminatory practices; and providing for breastfeeding by employees.
Providing for unannounced inspections of certain facilities and persons that provide child day care; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare.