BILL NUMBER: AB 1920	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2010

   An act relating to elder and dependent abuse.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1920, as introduced, Davis. Elder and dependent abuse
reporting: repeal date.
   Existing law, the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection
Act, establishes procedures for the reporting, investigation, and
prosecution of elder and dependent adult abuse. These procedures
require persons, defined as mandated reporters, to report known or
suspected instances of elder or dependent adult abuse. Under existing
law, care custodians of elder or dependent adults and local law
enforcement agencies are mandated reporters. With certain exceptions,
a violation of the reporting requirements by a mandated reporter is
a misdemeanor.
   Existing law, the Financial Elder Abuse Reporting Act of 2005,
until January 1, 2013, includes within these reporting requirements
mandated reporters of suspected financial abuse, as defined, and
makes failure to comply with these requirements, with certain
exceptions, subject to a civil penalty.
   The act also, until January 1, 2013, provides that a county adult
protective services office and a long-term care ombudsman when
investigating the financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult is
not prohibited from requesting financial information and the office
or branch of a financial institution is not prohibited from
responding to the request.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would delete the January 1, 2013, repeal for the
Financial Elder Abuse Reporting Act of 2005.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would delete the repeal date for the Financial Elder
Abuse Reporting Act of 2005 (Chapter 140 of the Statutes of 2005).