HB 1658

Abstract

Adult protective services; central registry.Creates a central registry of founded complaints of adult abuse,neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department of SocialServices. The bill establishes (i) investigation requirements forlocal departments of social services related to complaints of adultabuse, neglect, and exploitation; (ii) record retention and disclosurerequirements for the Department and local departments; (iii) noticerequirements related to findings by local departments and centralregistry entries; and (iv) an appeals process to contest the findingsof a local department related to founded reports of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation.