January 20, 2010
Laws to stiffen punishment for exploiting vulnerable adults are working their way through the state Legislature.
Elder-abuse legislation, transit-system improvements and health-care reform, meanwhile, are among local, state and national issues targeted by Kalamazoo County Advocates for Senior Issues for attention in 2010.
State Reps. Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, Larry DeShazor, R-Portage, and Robert Jones, D-Kalamazoo, updated KCASI on issues currently before the Legislature at the organization’s first monthly meeting of the year Monday. All three said they voted for eight elder-abuse bills that have passed the House and are now in the Senate.
About a dozen other elder-abuse-prevention bills, products of an Elder Abuse Task Force, remain in committee in the House.
Bills that have cleared the House include increased penalties for financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult; criminalization of the fraudulent receipt of a signature of a vulnerable adult; acceptance of videotape testimony of a vulnerable adult in court; a requirement that magistrates accept third-party complaints on behalf of a vulnerable adult; and a requirement that nursing-home employees report abuse to both the facility administrator and state Department of Community Health.
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SOURCE: MLIVE.COM
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