Kimberlee's Law

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL No. 564

Session of 2009

INTRODUCED BY BEYER, BAKER, BOYD, FLECK, GEIST, GINGRICH, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, MANN, MELIO, MOUL, MURT, RAPP, ROCK, STERN, SWANGER, J. TAYLOR AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 23, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, FEBRUARY 23, 2009

AN ACT Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for award of custody, partial custody or visitation.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 5303(b.2) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 5303. Award of custody, partial custody or visitation.

(b.2) Parent convicted of murder.--No court shall award custody, partial custody or visitation to or allow contact or written or verbal communication, directly or indirectly, by a parent who has been convicted of murder under 18 Pa.C.S. §

2502(a) (relating to murder of the first degree) of the other parent, guardian or other custodian of the child who is the subject of the order[, unless the child is of suitable age and consents to the order].

Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

Robin's Law

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA 

Senate Bill No. 756

    Session of 2009