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IA HSB570
SB
Status
Introduced
1/15/2026
Primary Sponsor
Judiciary
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AI Summary
- Strengthens confidentiality protections for victim counselors by clarifying that confidential communications and information shared between crime victims and counselors cannot be compelled in civil or criminal proceedings except under limited circumstances.
- Establishes three specific exceptions allowing disclosure of confidential victim-counselor communications: written waiver by the victim, court-ordered disclosure, or when failure to disclose would create clear imminent risk of serious physical injury or death.
- Requires victim counselors to complete at least 20 hours of training covering victimization dynamics, laws related to violent crime, human trafficking, sexual assault, and domestic violence, as well as crisis intervention techniques.
- Provides immunity from civil or criminal liability for victim counselors and crime victim centers who participate in good faith disclosure of records.
- Expands the definition of "victim counselor" to include those certified by crime victim centers and under supervision, whose primary purpose is providing advice, counseling, and assistance to crime victims.
Legislative Description
A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights.(See HF 2704.)
Last Action
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2704.
2/23/2026
Committee Referrals
Judiciary1/15/2026
Full Bill Text
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