Florida’s new child abuse
reporting law may be toughest in the country:
GENERAL BILL by Appropriations Committee; Health and Human
Services Committee; Judiciary Committee; Dorworth; (CO-INTRODUCERS)
Adkins; Brodeur; Burgin; Campbell; Coley; Costello; Fullwood; Gaetz;
Harrell; Holder; Julien; Nunez; Pafford; Plakon; Porth; Snyder; Steube;
Williams, T.
Protection of Vulnerable Persons; Revises
language concerning child abuse reporting; requires DCF to provide for
web-chat & update other web-based forms for reporting; requires
specified educational institutions & their law enforcement agencies
to report known or suspected child abuse, abandonment, or neglect in
certain circumstances; provides financial penalties for violations;
increases penalties for certain reporting offenses; provides for upward
reclassification of certain prostitution offenses involving minors;
provides for denial of relocation payment for domestic violence claim if
claimant has been paid sexual battery relocation claim for same
incident; provides for relocation assistance payments to victims of
sexual battery; provides criteria for awards; provides for denial of
relocation payment for sexual battery claim if claimant has previously
been paid domestic violence relocation claim for same incident; provides
appropriations; authorizes specified numbers of full-time equivalent
positions with associated salary rates within DCF; defines "mental
injury" with respect to offenses of abuse, aggravated abuse, &
neglect of child; requires physician or psychologist acting as expert
witness in certain proceedings have certain credentials; redefines
"crime" for purposes of crime victims compensation to include additional
forms of injury; redefines "victim" to conform with modified definition
of "crime."
APPROPRIATION:
$3,945,016
Last Action:
04/29/2012
Chapter No. 2012-155
Effective Date: October 1, 2012
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