Scope and Contents An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, 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...

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Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "Anact to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the publicwelfare laws of the Commonwealth," providing for family conferencing.

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Parental Rights Protection Act- The liberty of a parent to direct the upbringing, education and care of the parent's child is a fundamental right.

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An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in adoption, repealing provisions relating to counseling and providing for adoption-related counseling services.

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An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, 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.

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HB 1526 amends Section 2711 (consents necessary to adoption) of Title 23 (Domestic Relations Code) by constricting the time frame for revocation of consent to 14 days after a birth mother formally gives her consent.

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Eliminates the requirement for a report of intermediary to be filed in an adoption proceeding; places certain information contained in the report of intermediary into the contents of the petition for adoption;and requires certain documents be included in the exhibits attached to the petition for adoption.

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HB1528 amends Section 774 of the Human Services Code(Adoption Opportunity Payments and Reimbursement) to allow adoptive families to appeal to the PA Department of Human Services the amount of the adoption subsidy provided to them by the county Children and Youth Services Agency under the Adoption Opportunities Act.

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HB 1529 adds reasonable living expenses incurred by a birth mother (i.e. food, rent, utilities, maternity clothing) three months prior to birth and 60 days post birth, and up to $300 for expenses and transportation associated with prenatal, maternity, and post maternity care to the existing statutory list of permissible reimbursable expenses paid by adoptive parents during the course of an adoption.

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HB1530 amends Section 2711 (Consents necessary to adoption) of the Domestic Relations Code (Title 23, Pa. C.S.) by adding an explicit stipulation in subsection (d) (Contents of consent) that the consent to adoption executed by an incarcerated birth parent may be witnessed by employees of correctional facilities.