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Senate committee advances omnibus bill expanding protections, health care and reporting for sexual-assault survivors
Summary
House Bill 47, an omnibus package of recommendations from the Governor’s Sexual Assault Survivors Task Force, was presented and advanced by the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice on May 20.
House Bill 47, an omnibus package of recommendations from the Governor’s Sexual Assault Survivors Task Force, was presented and advanced by the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice on May 20.
The bill “includes eight of the ten policy recommendations” from the task force, sponsor Senator Judith Zaffirini said, and would, among other changes, “ensure courts consider the impact of case delays for adult survivors of sexual assault, expand post assault health care to 30 days for follow-up care, expand training for health care workers regarding survivor care, prohibit persons on the state sex-offender registry from working as rideshare drivers, require sexual-assault…
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