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PRINTER'S NO.     1134
                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                         SENATE BILL
                         No. 936
                                                 Session of
                                                   2023
     INTRODUCED BY CAPPELLETTI, SCHWANK, SAVAL, HAYWOOD, FONTANA,
        KANE, HUGHES, COMITTA, KEARNEY, TARTAGLIONE AND BREWSTER,
        OCTOBER 3, 2023
     REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 3, 2023
                                      AN ACT
 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
    Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dockets, indices and
    other records, further providing for enforcement of foreign
    judgments.
    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 hereby enacts as follows:
    Section 1.     Section 4306(b) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
 § 4306.    Enforcement of foreign judgments.
    * * *
    (b)    Filing and status of foreign judgments.--[A]
           (1)   Except as provided under paragraph (2), a copy of
    any foreign judgment including the docket entries incidental
    thereto authenticated in accordance with act of Congress or
    this title may be filed in the office of the clerk of any
    court of common pleas of this Commonwealth. The clerk shall
    treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment
    of any court of common pleas of this Commonwealth. A judgment
  so filed shall be a lien as of the date of filing and shall
  have the same effect and be subject to the same procedures,
  defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying
  as a judgment of any court of common pleas of this
  Commonwealth and may be enforced or satisfied in like manner.
      (2)   A court of common pleas of this Commonwealth shall
  have no authority under this section to enforce or satisfy a
  foreign judgment upon a judgment creditor for any matter
  involving the provision or delivery of reproductive health
  care services.
      (3)   As used in this subsection, the term "reproductive
  health care services" means medical, surgical, counseling or
  referral services relating to the human reproductive system,
  including services relating to pregnancy, contraception or
  the termination of a pregnancy, which are provided in any
  hospital, outpatient clinic, physician's office or other
  medical facility or office.
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  Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected: 
Printer's No. 1134: 42-4306(b)