HB240 - Crimes of Violence Treatment Reporting Act

• Creates the Crimes of Violence Treatment Reporting Act, establishing a requirement for physicians, health care professionals, facility directors, and administrators to report specific injuries and illnesses to law enforcement authorities.

• Mandates reporting of gunshot wounds, powder burns, firearm-related injuries, poisoning illnesses, and knife or sharp instrument wounds that result in grave bodily harm or appear to result from criminal acts of violence.

• Reports must include the patient's name, age, sex, race, residential address or current location, and character and extent of the injury or illness, if known.

• Provides civil and criminal liability immunity to health care officials who make good faith reports to law enforcement pursuant to this act.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval or otherwise becoming law.