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Committee advances bill extending Good Samaritan protection to mental‑health crisis responders
Summary
Senate File 130 would add explicit Good Samaritan immunity for laypeople assisting someone in a mental‑health crisis, including peer‑support and faith‑based responders; committee passed it unanimously with one excused member.
The Labor, Health & Social Services Committee advanced Senate File 130 on Feb. 14 after sponsor Senator Rothfuss described the bill as clarifying existing Good Samaritan protections to explicitly include assistance during mental‑health crises.
Senator Rothfuss, sponsor of the bill, told the committee the measure inserts language into the state’s Good Samaritan statute to cover laypeople providing emergency assistance during a mental‑health crisis, including suicidal interventions, and to give confidence to peer‑support programs and community responders to render aid…
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