宾夕法尼亚州本年度预算中仅为强制性儿童死亡审查计划拨款24.2万美元，与州长沙皮罗年初提议的250万美元相差悬殊 1。该计划要求各县组建委员会审查21岁以下人员的死亡情况，以此指导预防工作 1。
自2020年以来，该计划仅完成了一半死亡案件的审查 1。各县官员表示难以应对这一耗时复杂的州强制性任务 1。宾夕法尼亚儿童权利中心创始人凯瑟琳·帕尔批评这笔资金是"一个令人侮辱的数字" 1。倡导者认为当前资金远不足以改革这一失效的系统 1。
2024年东斯特劳德斯堡大学的评估将该计划描述为"县级的无资金授权" 1。宾夕法尼亚州在1996年托德勒·麦克斯韦尔·费舍尔谋杀案发生后，于2008年创建了儿童死亡审查强制令 1。
对于资金短缺问题，州参议院多数党领袖乔·皮特曼表示改进该计划"是有道理的" 1。州卫生部则表示，即使资金有限，也将"探索额外员工"并"增加能力"来支持县级审查团队 1。
Pennsylvania allocated $242,000 to its mandatory child death review program in the current budget, far short of the $2.5 million Governor Josh Shapiro proposed at the beginning of the year 1. The program requires counties to establish committees that review deaths of individuals under age 21 in order to inform prevention efforts 1.
Since 2020, the program has completed reviews for only half of the death cases assigned to local teams 1. County officials have described the state-mandated initiative as time-consuming and complex to manage, struggling to keep pace with the workload 1. Katherine Pal, founder of the Children's Law Center, called the $242,000 allocation "an insulting number" 1.
A 2024 assessment by East Stroudsburg University characterized the program as an "unfunded mandate at the county level" 1. State Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman said improving the program "makes sense" 1.
The Pennsylvania child death review mandate was established in 2008, following the 1996 murder of Todd Lemacks Maxwell Fischer 1. The Department of Health stated it would "explore additional staff" and "increase capacity" to support county review teams even with limited funding 1.
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