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Relating to confidential communications between a peer support group counselor and specified individuals
Topics:Courts & civil law
Same legislation: HF 2529
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2020
- Done: House committeeFebruary 20, 2020
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 4, 2020
- Done: Senate committeeJune 9, 2020
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Currently, law enforcement officers can keep their private conversations with peer support counselors secret in court. This bill expands those privacy protections to include civilian employees who work for police departments or fire departments. These employees would also be able to keep their counseling sessions confidential unless they give permission or are involved in the incident itself.1
Read the official explanation
10(9) provides that a peer support group counselor who obtains information from an officer by reason of the counselor’s capacity as a peer support group counselor shall not be allowed, in giving testimony, to disclose any confidential communications properly entrusted to the counselor by the officer while receiving counseling.10(9) also creates exceptions in cases where the officer has given the officer’s consent to the disclosure of such information and where the peer support group counselor was an initial responding officer, a witness, or a party to the incident which prompted the delivery of counseling services. This bill adds the confidential communications between a peer support group counselor and a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency or fire department to the provisions prohibiting disclosure of such communications and the exceptions to the prohibition.
House subcommittee
Named February 12, 2020. On February 18, 2020 it recommended passage.
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- HF 303 Relating to confidential communications between a peer support group counselor and specifi…89th General Assembly · Passed HouseNearly identical
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