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House committee advances two measures on elder financial protections and prison rehab but lacks quorum; texts sent to same-day referendum
Summary
The House Committee on Social Welfare, Persons with Disabilities and Older Adults considered a Cámara bill to strengthen protections against financial exploitation of older and disabled adults and a Senate bill to authorize therapeutic-community rehabilitation in correctional facilities; lacking quorum, the committee sent the amended texts to a referendum scheduled for 4:00 p.m. the same day.
The public final-consideration session of the House Committee on Social Welfare, Persons with Disabilities and Older Adults opened June 23, 2024 at 3:32 p.m. to consider two measures: a Cámara project described in the record as aiming to amend law 206 of 2008 (and related provisions) to prevent and detect possible financial exploitation of older adults and persons with disabilities, and Senate Project 54 to authorize implementation of a therapeutic-community rehabilitation model inside correctional institutions.
The committee president, identified in the transcript only by role, summarized the Cámara…
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