Residents of a Bucks County borough furious they had no knowledge that a counseling center was treating sexual predators led to expanded reporting legislation, HB 1874, approved by the state House of Representatives judiciary committee.

The sponsor of the bill, state Rep. Frank Farry, R-Bucks, said that last spring a resident of Hulmeville Borough was asked for directions to a treatment center. The resident was then told by the stranger that he was being treated there as a sex offender.