Bill Text: PA HB133 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act amending the act of May 31, 1919 (P.L.356, No.170), entitled, as amended, "An act authorizing courts of record to remove convicts and persons confined in jails, workhouses, reformatories, reform or industrial schools, penitentiaries, prisons, houses of correction or any other penal institutions, who are seriously ill, to other institutions; and providing penalties for breach of prison," providing for payment of medical costs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 21-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-30 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB133 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB133-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 129
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 133 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY KILLION, BAKER, BEYER, BRENNAN, CLYMER, CUTLER, FAIRCHILD, GEIST, HARRIS, M. KELLER, LONGIETTI, MILLARD, MILLER, PALLONE, PICKETT, SIPTROTH, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH, WATSON, FLECK, EVERETT, KORTZ AND O'NEILL, JANUARY 30, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 30, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 31, 1919 (P.L.356, No.170), entitled, as
amended, "An act authorizing courts of record to remove
convicts and persons confined in jails, workhouses,
reformatories, reform or industrial schools, penitentiaries,
prisons, houses of correction or any other penal
institutions, who are seriously ill, to other institutions;
and providing penalties for breach of prison," providing for
payment of medical costs.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of May 31, 1919 (P.L.356, No.170),
entitled, as amended, "An act authorizing courts of record to
remove convicts and persons confined in jails, workhouses,
reformatories, reform or industrial schools, penitentiaries,
prisons, houses of correction or any other penal institutions,
who are seriously ill, to other institutions; and providing
penalties for breach of prison," is amended by adding a section
to read:
Section 1.1. (a) (1) When a person is sentenced to the
State correctional system and is in the custody of a county
correctional facility awaiting transfer to a State correctional
facility, any and all medical costs incurred by the person, from
the time of sentencing until the time of commitment to a State
correctional facility, shall be the responsibility of the
Department of Corrections.
(2) Medical costs include, but are not limited to, all
medical care services, hospitalizations, durable and nondurable
goods, prescription drugs, medications and transportation costs
to and from the medical services located outside of the county
correctional facility.
(b) The Department of Corrections shall enter into a
memorandum of understanding with the county correctional
facility and the receiving State correctional facility for a
division of the responsibilities and duties for each facility
and for the procedures to implement this section.
(c) The Department of Corrections shall devise and implement
a program in which the State-sentenced persons who are
identified in subsection (a) and have medical insurance shall
pay for their own medical needs through that insurance. The
program shall be contained in regulations promulgated by the
department.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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