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Committee backs changes to adult-protection definitions and evidence rules, including adverse-inference remedy for withheld documents
Summary
First-substitute House Bill 534 aligns definitions for vulnerable adults with criminal code, allows substantiated findings when alleged perpetrators refuse to provide requested documents (via an adverse-inference standard), and passed unanimously out of committee.
The Senate Judiciary committee favorably recommended first-substitute House Bill 534, a set of technical and substantive changes to the state’s adult-protective-services (APS) statutes intended to align civil definitions with criminal code and strengthen APS’s ability to substantiate abuse, neglect and exploitation findings.
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