County liability for new shelter care program operating costs.
42 Pa.C.S. § 31
in effectExcluding probation services, no county shall be required to pay more than 10% of the costs of operating new shelter care programs required to implement the reclassification provided for in paragraph (6) of the definition of "dependent child" in 42 Pa.C.S. § 6302 (relating to definitions), provided that:
(1) the county has applied for existing Federal funds to implement paragraph (6) of the definition of "dependent child" in 42 Pa.C.S. § 6302;
(2) the county has not been deemed ineligible for these Federal funds; and
(3) the programs are approved as necessary by the Department of Public Welfare to implement paragraph (6) of the definition of "dependent child" in 42 Pa.C.S. § 6302. For the purposes of this section, shelter care shall not include institutional facilities. References in Text. The Department of Public Welfare, referred to in this section, was redesignated as the Department of Human Services by Act 132 of 2014.
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