In Re: Amendment of Financial Regulations Pursuant to Act 20 of 2019, Pa.R.C.P. No. 1920.31(A)(2), and 23 Pa.C.S. § 5323

Summary

This Pennsylvania Supreme Court per curiam promulgation document amends financial regulations in 204 Pa. Code Chapter 29, Subchapter I, pursuant to Acts 40 and 44 of 2017 and related statutory provisions. It increases specified statutory fees from $17 to $19, modifies traffic-related fees, and establishes temporary surcharges applicable from July 1, 2019, through December 31, 2020.

Holdings

1. The court promulgated amendments to 204 Pa. Code Chapter 29, Subchapter I, establishing a $19 statutory fee for specified filings and proceedings, a $12 fee for specified Title 75 summary offenses initiated by traffic citation, and the temporary surcharges specified in subsection (g), effective July 1, 2019, through December 31, 2020.
2. The amended regulations define the initiation of covered civil, family, criminal, and other legal proceedings, and identify deeds, mortgages, related instruments, long-term leases, easements, and rights of way as property-transfer documents subject to the applicable fee.

Questions Presented

1. What statutory fees and temporary surcharges should apply to filings, proceedings, convictions, guilty pleas, pretrial diversionary programs, and property-transfer documents under the amended financial regulations?
2. Which proceedings and documents are subject to the statutory fees and temporary surcharges under 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 3733(a.1) and 3733.1, section 2802-E of The Administrative Code of 1929, and section 1795.1-E of The Fiscal Code?

Disposition

other