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Panel advances bill extending immunity to mental-health and suicide first-aid responders
Summary
H 491 would expand statutory immunity for people providing first aid to include mental-health and suicide emergency first aid when offered in good faith and without compensation; the committee moved the bill to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
Senator Lent told the committee that H 491 amends Idaho Code to extend immunity protections to individuals who provide mental-health and suicide emergency first aid in good faith and without compensation. The sponsor said the change would clarify that volunteers and bystanders acting to help in a mental-health crisis would be shielded from damage claims if they acted in good faith.
Senator Wintrow asked whether a person who refused to provide help on religious grounds would still receive immunity; Senator Lent said he did not know. The committee voted to send H 491 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation; Senator Ricks moved the motion and Senator Foreman seconded, and the motion passed by voice vote.
