Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 1539 - Disabled adults and elderly adults; protective service need

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1. Watts  26th            2. Smith  12th             3. Perry  11th
4. Floyd  138th           5. Shaw  176th             6. Westmoreland  104th


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House Vote: Yeas       Nays             Senate Vote: Yeas     Nays                                  
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              1/31/96  Read 1st Time                                                                
              2/1/96   Read 2nd Time                                                                
              2/26/96  Favorably Reported                                                           
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Code Sections amended: 30-5-4                                                                       


HB 1539                                           LC 24 0462S






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 30-5-4 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 2  Annotated, relating to reporting the need for protective
  1- 3  services for disabled adults, so as to change which persons
  1- 4  must make certain reports; to provide for reporting the need
  1- 5  for protective services for elderly adults; to repeal
  1- 6  conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 8  Code Section 30-5-4 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 9  Annotated, relating to reporting the need for protective
  1-10  services for disabled adults, is amended by striking
  1-11  paragraph (1) of subsection (a) thereof and inserting in
  1-12  lieu thereof the following:

  1-13      "(a)(1) Any physician, osteopath, intern, resident,
  1-14      other hospital or medical personnel, dentist,
  1-15      psychologist, podiatrist, nursing personnel, social work
  1-16      personnel, day-care personnel, or law enforcement
  1-17      personnel, or any other person providing services having
  1-18      reasonable cause to believe that a disabled or elderly
  1-19      adult has had a physical injury or injuries inflicted
  1-20      upon him such disabled or elderly adult, other than by
  1-21      accidental means, by a caretaker or has been neglected
  1-22      or exploited by a caretaker shall report or cause
  1-23      reports to be made in accordance with the provisions of
  1-24      this Code section.  Any employee of a financial
  1-25      institution, as defined in Code Section 7-1-4, having
  1-26      reasonable cause to believe that a disabled or elderly
  1-27      adult has been exploited by a caretaker shall report or
  1-28      cause reports to be made in accordance with the
  1-29      provisions of this Code section.  When ; provided,
  1-30      however, that, when the person having a reasonable cause
  1-31      to believe that a disabled or elderly adult is in need
  1-32      of protective services performs services as a member of
  1-33      the staff of a hospital, social agency, financial
  1-34      institution, or similar facility, he such person shall


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                                                 LC 24 0462S

  2- 1      notify the person in charge of the facility and such
  2- 2      person or his that person's designee shall report or
  2- 3      cause reports to be made in accordance with the
  2- 4      provisions of this Code section."

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 5  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2- 6  repealed.








































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