BILL ANALYSIS
SB 110
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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
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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