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Senate approves use‑immunity amendment to bill on professional disclosures to Board of Pardons
Summary
After extended debate, the Utah Senate passed an amendment to Senate Bill 2 that requires written summaries of therapist disclosures to inmates and adds a use‑immunity provision for therapeutic communications; the full bill then passed 25–3–1 and was sent to the House.
Senators voted to amend and then pass Senate Bill 2 after a lengthy floor debate over confidentiality and public safety in prison-based therapy.
The amendment, moved and explained by Senator Steiner, requires that when a therapist discloses concerns to the Board of Pardons a written summary be provided to the inmate and that certain communications made in the therapeutic relationship be protected from use in prosecution. “The purpose of this amendment…
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