Shortly before the state House debate over proposed changes to the state’s child abuse background checks law to make it less onerous to employees and volunteers who work with children that was supposed to happen on Wednesday, Gov. Tom Wolf took a step to do just that.
Wolf announced today that $20 in fees for a child abuse clearance and state police criminal background check required by the Child Protective Services Law will be waived for volunteers who work with children.
He also announced that the state Department of Human Services and the Pennsylvania State Police will be reducing the cost of both the child abuse and criminal history record checks from $10 to $8 for all other applicants.
These changes, which grew out of conversations with legislators, will take effect on July 25.
“My action today could not have been accomplished without the hard work of the General Assembly, who has participated in an ongoing bipartisan working group with the Administration in an effort to develop needed clarifications to the Child Protective Services Law,” Wolf said in a news release.
