Establishes the mandatory reporting by certain professional or official persons who come into contact with mentally or physically incapacitated persons who were abused including residents of assisted living and adult care facilities who may be abused, mistreated or neglected; provides reporting procedures and grants immunity for such reporting; provides criminal and civil penalties.
Child abuse & neglect; mandatory reporting for certain persons in their prof. or official capacity.
Enacts the child abuse reporting expansion act; relates to making clergy members required reporters of child abuse or mistreatment.
Enacts the child abuse reporting expansion act; relates to making clergy members required reporters of child abuse or mistreatment.
Permits admission of spontaneous statements by victims of certain frauds, abuse and theft offenses, who are a vulnerable elderly person, an incompetent or physically disabled person, or a person who has been determined to be incapacitated.
Identifies persons to be mandatory reporters of senior abuse or maltreatment; describes the procedures and steps to be taken to report senior abuse to adult protective services.
Establishing criminal penalties for abuse or neglect of incapacitated adults
Establishing criminal penalties for abuse or neglect of incapacitated adults
Establishes the false reporting survivors act which establishes the crimes of aggravated falsely reporting an incident in the first, second, and third degrees when a person commits the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the first, second, or third degree and such person intended to harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm another person because of a belief or perception regarding a person's race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or ethnicity; authorizes officers to arrest persons believed to have committed falsely reporting an incident without first obtaining a warrant; includes such falsely reporting as a hate crime; authorizes the law enforcement misconduct investigative office to receive and investigate complaints alleging falsely reporting an incident; establishes databases of law enforcement officers and persons convicted of falsely reporting; requires notifying persons of the termination of certain criminal actions or proceedings; relates to the statute of limitations for filing an action relating to falsely reporting.
Establishes a reasonable inference that certain transfers of money or property by a vulnerable elderly, physically disabled, incompetent or incapacitated person were a wrongful taking in violation larceny statutes.