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Relating to confidential communications between a peer support group counselor and specified individuals
Sponsored by the House Public Safety Committee
Topics:Courts & civil law
Same legislation: HF 64
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 19, 2021
- Done: House committeeJanuary 28, 2021
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 8, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeApril 1, 2021
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, 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 that protection to include civilian employees who work for police departments or fire departments. These employees would also be able to keep their counseling sessions private 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.
Senate subcommittee
Named March 9, 2021. On March 25, 2021 it recommended passage.
- Sen. Jeff Reichman REmail
- Sen. Kevin Kinney D
- Sen. J. Taylor
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.
- HF 2333 Relating to confidential communications between a peer support group counselor and specifi…88th General Assembly · Withdrawn · same titleDidn’t advance
- HF 2529 Relating to confidential communications between a peer support group counselor and specifi…88th General Assembly · Passed House · same titlePassed a chamber
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