AB 1028 Summary

• Effective January 1, 2025, removes requirement for health practitioners to report to law enforcement injuries from general assaultive or abusive conduct, retaining mandatory reporting only for firearm injuries, child abuse, and elder abuse.

• Requires health practitioners to provide domestic violence and sexual violence survivors with brief counseling, education, support, and warm handoffs or referrals to advocacy services instead of mandatory police reporting.

• Permits health practitioners to provide medical documentation of injuries to patients for their own use, and allows reporting to law enforcement only at the patient's request.

• Provides civil and criminal liability protections for health practitioners acting in good faith compliance with the new requirements.

• Maintains existing requirements for mandatory reporting of child abuse and elder abuse, and permits reporting under federal HIPAA regulations or when patient requests it.