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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 286
February Session, 2022
AN ACT CONCERNING DEADLINES FOR MANDATORY REPORTING
OF SUSPECTED ELDER ABUSE AND PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO
REPORT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 17b-451 of the 2022 supplement to 1
the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2
thereof (Effective July 1, 2022): 3
(a) A mandatory reporter who has reasonable cause to suspect or 4
believe that any elderly person has been abused, neglected, exploited or 5
abandoned, or is in a condition that is the result of such abuse, neglect, 6
exploitation or abandonment, or is in need of protective services, shall, 7
not later than [seventy-two] twenty-four hours after such suspicion or 8
belief arose, report such information or cause a report to be made in any 9
reasonable manner to the Commissioner of Social Services or to the 10
person or persons designated by the commissioner to receive such 11
reports. Any mandatory reporter who fails for the first time to make 12
such report within the prescribed time shall [be fined not more than five 13
hundred dollars, except that, if] retake the mandatory training on 14
detecting potential abuse, neglect, exploitation and abandonment of 15
elderly persons and provide the commissioner with proof of successful 16
completion of such training. Any mandatory reporter who subsequently 17 Substitute Bill No. 286
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fails to make such report within the prescribed time period shall be fined 18
not more than five hundred dollars and shall retake the mandatory 19
training on detecting potential abuse, neglect, exploitation and 20
abandonment of elderly persons and provide the commissioner with 21
proof of successful completion of such training. If such person 22
intentionally fails to make such report within the prescribed time 23
period, such person shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor for the first 24
offense and a class A misdemeanor for any subsequent offense. Any 25
institution, organization, agency or facility employing individuals to 26
care for persons sixty years of age or older shall provide mandatory 27
training on detecting potential abuse, neglect, exploitation and 28
abandonment of such persons and inform such employees of their 29
obligations under this section. For purposes of this subsection, 30
"mandatory reporter" means any (1) physician or surgeon licensed 31
under the provisions of chapter 370, (2) resident physician or intern in 32
any hospital in this state, whether or not so licensed, (3) registered nurse, 33
(4) nursing home administrator, nurse's aide or orderly in a nursing 34
home facility or residential care home, (5) person paid for caring for a 35
resident in a nursing home facility or residential care home, (6) staff 36
person employed by a nursing home facility or residential care home, 37
(7) residents' advocate, other than a representative of the Office of the 38
Long-Term Care Ombudsman, as established under section 17a-405, 39
including the State Ombudsman, (8) licensed practical nurse, medical 40
examiner, dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, podiatrist, social worker, 41
clergyman, police officer, pharmacist, psychologist or physical 42
therapist, (9) person paid for caring for an elderly person by any 43
institution, organization, agency or facility, including but not limited to, 44
any employee of a community-based services provider, senior center, 45
home care agency, homemaker and companion agency, adult day care 46
center, village-model community and congregate housing facility, (10) 47
person licensed or certified as an emergency medical services provider 48
pursuant to chapter 368d or 384d, including any such emergency 49
medical services provider who is a member of a municipal fire 50
department, and (11) driver of a paratransit vehicle, as defined in section 51
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2022 17b-451(a)
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Subsec. (a), "elder abuse training" was changed to "mandatory
training on detecting potential abuse, neglect, exploitation and
abandonment of elderly persons" for consistency.
HS
Joint Favorable Subst.