West Virginia Senate Bill 548 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-02-09 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to allow for disclosure of otherwise confidential information to certain persons so as to provide greater cooperation among the related entities, the protected person, or persons having a fiduciary relationship to the protected person for the detection, prevention and correction of abuse, neglect and exploitation of all disabled adults or elderly persons. A new provision allows the release of information to the perpetrator of abuse, neglect or exploitation of a protected person consistent with due process procedures. The bill also requires notification to mandated reporters of whether an investigation has been initiated and completed by the department.

Relating to confidentiality of adult protective services records

Sen. Ron Stollings [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-09		To Health and Human Resources
2012-02-09		Introduced in Senate
2012-02-09		To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2012-02-09		Filed for introduction

HB4516 (Similar To) 2012-02-16 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
9	6	8	Amended Code	Citation Text
9	6	9	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=548&year=2012&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb548%20intr.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=548