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Senate approves bill letting mental-health professionals share subpoenaed information with Board of Pardons after contentious floor debate
Summary
After testimony from mental-health advocates and Board/Corrections representatives, the Senate adopted an amendment and passed Senate Bill 2 to allow licensed professionals to share information with the Board of Pardons (subject to protections for false or malicious disclosures).
Senate Bill 2 — a measure to allow licensed health professionals to share information with the Board of Pardons and Parole — was the session’s most contested item. Senators first resolved into a committee of the whole to hear testimony from Jan Harding, chair of the forensic committee of the Utah Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and from a Board/Corrections representative identified on the floor as Mike Sibud/Sibbet.
Jan Harding warned of a chilling effect: if incarcerated persons believe what they tell therapists will be passed to the Board, some will withhold information and the bill could make it harder to…
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