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Committee approves adult protective services amendments to strengthen evidence rules in administrative hearings
Summary
Representative Anthony Loubay presented HB 534 to align APS definitions with criminal vulnerable‑adult language and to allow adverse inferences and evidentiary requirements in administrative hearings when respondents refuse to provide documents.
Representative Anthony Loubay presented House Bill 534, which would amend adult-protective-services statutes to (1) align the statutory definition of "vulnerable adult" with criminal-code language, (2) permit an adverse inference when a respondent refuses to produce documentary evidence (for example, bank records) requested in an investigation, and (3) require respondents in administrative hearings to present evidence that rebuts the division’s supporting documentation.
Nan Mendenhall, director of Adult Protective Services (APS), described the bill as…
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