Bill Text: PA HB1391 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-06 - Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS [HB1391 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1391-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1704
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1391 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY PASHINSKI, BOBACK, BRENNAN, BRIGGS, BROWN, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, DALLY, DONATUCCI, EACHUS, FRANKEL, GROVE, HARKINS, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, MAHONEY, MUNDY, MUSTIO, PAYTON, SIPTROTH, VULAKOVICH AND YUDICHAK, APRIL 29, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 29, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
welfare laws of the Commonwealth," further providing for
payments to counties for services to children.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 704.1(a) of the act of June 13, 1967
(P.L.31, No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code, amended
August 5, 1991 (P.L.315, No.30), is amended to read:
Section 704.1. Payments to Counties for Services to
Children.--(a) The department shall reimburse county
institution districts or their successors for expenditures
incurred by them in the performance of their obligation pursuant
to this act and the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333),
known as the "Juvenile Act," in the following percentages:
(1) Eighty percent of the cost of an adoption subsidy paid
pursuant to subdivision (e) of Article VII of this act.
(2) No less than seventy-five percent and no more than
ninety percent of the reasonable cost including staff costs of
child welfare services, informal adjustment services provided
pursuant to section 8 of the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464,
No.333), known as the "Juvenile Act," and such services approved
by the department, including but not limited to, foster home
care, group home care, shelter care, community residential care,
youth service bureaus, day treatment centers and service to
children in their own home and any other alternative treatment
programs approved by the department.
(3) Sixty percent of the reasonable administrative costs
approved by the department except for those staff costs included
in clause (2) of this section as necessary for the provision of
child welfare services.
(4) Fifty percent of the actual cost of care and support of
a child placed by a county child welfare agency or a child
committed by a court pursuant to the act of December 6, 1972
(P.L.1464, No.333), known as the "Juvenile Act," to the legal
custody of a public or private agency approved or operated by
the department other than those services described in clause
(2). The Auditor General shall ascertain the actual expense for
fiscal year 1974-1975 and each year thereafter by the Department
of Public Welfare for each of the several counties and each city
of the first class whose children resident within the county or
city of the first class directly received the benefit of the
Commonwealth's expenditure. The Auditor General shall also
ascertain for each Commonwealth institution or facility
rendering services to delinquent or deprived children the actual
average daily cost of providing said services. The Auditor
General shall certify to each county and city of the first class
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the allocated Commonwealth expenditures incurred on behalf of
its children and notify the Secretary of Public Welfare and each
county and city of the first class of same.
(5) Fifty percent of the reasonable cost of medical and
other examinations and treatment of a child ordered by the court
pursuant to the act of December 6, 1972 (P.L.1464, No.333),
known as the "Juvenile Act," and the expenses of the appointment
of a guardian [pendente lite] ad litem, legal counsel for a
child, summons, warrants, notices, subpoenas, travel expenses of
witnesses, transportation of the child, and other like expenses
incurred in proceedings under the act of December 6, 1972
(P.L.1464, No.333), known as the "Juvenile Act."
(6) Effective July 1, 1991, the department shall reimburse
county institution districts or their successors one hundred
percent of the reasonable costs of providing adoption services.
(7) Effective July 1, 1993, the department shall reimburse
county institution districts or their successors eighty percent
of the reasonable costs of providing foster home care, community
residential care, supervised independent living and community-
based alternative treatment programs.
(8) The department shall reimburse county institution
districts or their successors for the reasonable costs of
institutional services for dependent and delinquent children
other than detention services for delinquents in accordance with
the following schedule:
(i) Effective July 1, 1992, fifty-five percent.
(ii) Effective July 1, 1993, sixty percent.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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