BILL ANALYSIS SB 110 Page 1 Date of Hearing: August 4, 2010 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Felipe Fuentes, Chair SB 110 (Liu) - As Amended: August 2, 2010 Policy Committee: Human ServicesVote:6-0 Public Safety 7-0 Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: SUMMARY This bill makes a series of clarifying and noncontroversial changes to statutory provisions relating to elders who are victims of crimes, abuse, or neglect to include non-elder dependent adults. Among these changes, this bill: 1)Provides that local law enforcement agencies, and state law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction, have concurrent jurisdiction to investigate elder and dependent adult abuse and all other crimes against elder victims and victims with disabilities. 2)Provides that, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, law enforcement agencies retain exclusive responsibility for criminal investigations involving elder and dependent abuse. 3)Changes "interagency elder death teams" to "elder and dependent adult death review teams" and expands the authority of those teams to include dependent adult abuse and neglect, as specified. 4)Provides that when new materials are developed or updated for law enforcement elder and dependent adult abuse training courses certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards SB 110 Page 2 and Training (POST), POST shall consult with the Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse and other subject matter experts. 5)Clarifies that the appropriate law enforcement agency to which a developmental center for people with developmental disabilities must report resident deaths and serious injuries of unknown origin is the appropriate local law enforcement agency, and provides that such reporting requirements are in addition to any reporting requirements of mandated reporters. FISCAL EFFECT Negligible state and local costs. COMMENTS 1)Rationale . The intent of this measure is to make no-cost incremental changes to current law to enhance awareness and training regarding crimes against dependent adults. 2)Prior Legislation . AB 2038 (Lieber), 2007-2008, replaced the phrase "dependant adult" with the phrase "adult with disability" when referring to a person described under existing law as a person between the ages of 18 and 64 who has a physical or mental limitation which restricts or substantially restricts his or her ability to carry out normal activities or to protect his or her rights, as specified. AB 2039 was held on the Senate Appropriations' Suspense File. Analysis Prepared by : Geoff Long / APPR. / (916) 319-2081