{"id":312732,"date":"2026-10-23T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312732\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:30:11","slug":"shapiro-signs-bill-that-would-make-child-sex-offenders-fund-victim-recovery-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312732\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro signs bill that would make child sex offenders fund victim recovery costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 A bill that would establish and help finance the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/house\/co-sponsorship\/memo?memoID=47844&amp;document=HB2443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Child Victim Recovery Fund<\/a> was signed into law on Thursday after passing both the Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives. <\/p>\n<p>House Bill 2443 passed through both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/hb2443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chambers of Congress unanimously Wednesday<\/a> before heading to Gov. Josh Shapiro&#8217;s desk. The bill called for a $1,000 fee to be imposed against child sex offenders for felony offenses, $400 for misdemeanors, and $250 for diversionary instances.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, people on probation or parole would also pay a $15 monthly supervision surcharge, according to the bill. <\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers said the legislation would direct the costs of recovery services toward offenders rather than taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Money collected would be distributed to accredited Child Advocacy Centers across Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy centers provide forensic interviews, medical examinations, trauma-informed therapy, victim advocacy, and would provide coordination with authorities, prosecutors, and other support systems for victims. <\/p>\n<p>Sponsors of the bill said the centers often face chronic funding shortages that can limit their ability to meet accreditation standards while expanding mental health services and addressing growing caseloads. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 A bill that would establish and help finance the Child Victim Recovery Fund was signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-312732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}