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DPPC and advocates push statute updates to strengthen investigatory authority and modernize language

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The Disabled Persons Protection Commission and advocates urged the committee to modernize DPPC's enabling statute to streamline reporting, preserve confidential medical information, remove obsolete terms and remove commissioner term limits.

Nancy Alterio, executive director of the Disabled Persons Protection Commission, asked the Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities to advance language to modernize the commission's enabling statute (House 243 / Senate 139). Alterio said the bill would "modernize and streamline the DPPC's enabling statute, strengthen our mission, and our ability to support our constituency." She told members DPPC receives over "15,000…

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