Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding reporting of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
CHILD PROTECTION -- Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding reporting of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This legislation removes the term "other person", "resident on a hospital staff", and "intern" from the list of individuals required to perform mandatory reporting while adding "other health care worker", "principal or other school personnel", "professional child care worker who is at least eighteen years of age", "counselor", "therapist", "other mental health professional", "substance abuse counselor", "law enforcement officer", or "probation or parole officer". This legislation also removed verbiage that would have only given immunity to mandatory reporters, so any person reporting in good faith has immunity.
HOW THEY VOTED
House Third Reading
YEA (25)
NAY (42)
ABSENT / NOT VOTING (3)
LATEST ACTION
Filed in Office of the Chief Clerk