Bill Text: MI HB4995 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Senior citizens; crimes; neglect and mistreatment of senior citizens; require the department of health and human services to collect and analyze data. Amends 1981 PA 180 (MCL 400.581 - 400.594) by adding sec. 6l.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-09-20 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/20/2017 [HB4995 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4995-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4995

 

 

September 20, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1981 PA 180, entitled

 

"Older Michiganians act,"

 

(MCL 400.581 to 400.594) by adding section 6l.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 6l. (1) The aging and adult services agency shall collect

 

data on elder abuse possessed by state and local agencies,

 

including, but not limited to, the department of attorney general,

 

the Michigan domestic and sexual violence prevention and treatment

 

board, and the department of health and human services, for the

 

purpose of identifying the incidence of elder abuse among older

 

persons. The aging and adult services agency shall create an

 

interagency reporting system that contains a uniform set of

 

standards to collect and analyze this data. The aging and adult

services agency shall establish a definition for elder abuse, and

 

the minimum age of an older person, that enables the aging and

 

adult services agency to accurately compare similar data from

 

different state and local agencies. For the purposes of this

 

subsection, the aging and adult services agency, in establishing

 

the definition of elder abuse, may incorporate the different types

 

of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, active and passive

 

neglect, and financial exploitation.

 

     (2) County and city human services agencies, adult protective

 

services agencies, and other community organizations that provide

 

services to older persons shall report incidences of elder abuse,

 

as defined by the aging and adult services agency, to that agency

 

in the format specified by the aging and adult services agency. The

 

information must contain, but is not limited to, the number of

 

referrals, investigations, and substantiated cases and demographic

 

information on victims and perpetrators.

 

     (3) The aging and adult services agency shall issue a report

 

to the governor, the majority leader of the senate, the speaker of

 

the house of representatives, the minority leader of the senate,

 

and the minority leader of the house of representatives, on or

 

before March 1 in odd-numbered years. The report shall outline the

 

aging and adult services agency's recommendations for defining the

 

term "elder abuse" in statute, the types of reporting requirements

 

that shall be instituted to prevent the incidence of elder abuse,

 

and the programs available to prevent elder abuse and to provide

 

services to victims of elder abuse.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.