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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY DRUCKER, GOODMAN, SIPTROTH, PASHINSKI, JOSEPHS, MANDERINO AND HENNESSEY, DECEMBER 4, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, DECEMBER 4, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the |
2 | Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for |
3 | validity of agreement to arbitrate. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 7303 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania |
7 | Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: |
8 | § 7303. Validity of agreement to arbitrate. |
9 | A written agreement to subject any existing controversy to |
10 | arbitration or a provision in a written agreement to submit to |
11 | arbitration any controversy thereafter arising between the |
12 | parties is valid, enforceable and irrevocable, save upon such |
13 | grounds as exist at law or in equity relating to the validity, |
14 | enforceability or revocation of any contract. No binding |
15 | alternative dispute resolution shall be enforceable against a |
16 | patient of a licensed professional or other health care entity |
17 | that was entered into prior to the harm forming the basis of a |
18 | civil action in which a professional liability claim is asserted |
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1 | against a licensed professional. |
2 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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