Bill Text: PA SB1617 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring background checks of persons who coach youth athletic teams.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-10-25 - Referred to AGING AND YOUTH [SB1617 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB1617-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2507
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1617 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY D. WHITE, OCTOBER 25, 2012
REFERRED TO AGING AND YOUTH, OCTOBER 25, 2012
AN ACT
Requiring background checks of persons who coach youth athletic
teams.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Background checks.
(a) Requirement.--A person who seeks to coach a youth
athletic team which is organized and supervised by a
recreational youth athletics organization or entity shall
provide to the organization or entity a background check which
reports whether the potential coach has a criminal or abusive
history.
(b) Criminal history.--A potential coach, to satisfy the
requirement of subsection (a) regarding criminal history, shall
provide a report of criminal history record information from the
Pennsylvania State Police or a statement from the Pennsylvania
State Police that the Pennsylvania State Police central
repository contains no such information relating to that person.
The criminal history record information shall be limited to that
which is disseminated pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S. § 9121(b)(2)
(relating to general regulations) and shall be no more than one
year old.
(c) Abusive history.--A potential coach, to satisfy the
requirement of subsection (a) regarding abusive history, shall
provide an official clearance statement obtained from the
Department of Public Welfare within the immediately preceding
year as to whether the person is named as the individual
responsible for injury or abuse in an indicated report or a
founded report.
(d) File.--The recreational youth athletics organization or
entity shall maintain a copy of the required information for so
long as the person coaches for the organization or entity.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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