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Senate committee hears bill to expand co-responder protections and recognize core response teams
Summary
Substitute House Bill 1811 would define and recognize core response teams — multidisciplinary partnerships of first responders and behavioral-health professionals — expand privileged-communications protections to certain peer supporters and include corresponders in workers’ compensation presumptions.
The Senate Health & Long Term Care Committee on March 18 heard testimony on Substitute House Bill 1811, which would enhance crisis response by integrating behavioral health professionals into first-responder systems and extending legal protections and employment presumptions to core response participants.
Rohan Bhattacharjee, committee staff, said the bill (which passed the House 92-3) defines “core response” as a multidisciplinary partnership of first responders and human services professionals responding to behavioral health crises, expands the definition of first responder for privileged communications purposes to include those engaged in core response services, and extends a prima facie…
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