Concerning an exception from the mandatory reporting requirements for persons providing legal assistance to area agencies on aging.
Under current law, staff, and staff of contracted providers, of area agencies on aging are mandatory reporters of the mistreatment of an at-risk elder or an at-risk adult with an intellectual and developmental disability. The bill creates a mandatory reporter exception for attorneys at law providing legal assistance to individuals pursuant to a contract with an area agency on aging, the staff of such attorneys at law.
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)