4E Relating to vulnerable adults; authorizing disclosure of financial information to law enforcement, lead agencies or prosecuting authorities investigating financial exploitation of vulnerable adults in response to judicial or administrative subpoena; authorizing local agencies under medical assistance (MA) to grant hardship waivers of periods of ineligibility due to imminent threat to health and well-being and requiring local agencies to consider financial exploitation, fraud or theft; requiring the criminal alert network to disseminate data on vulnerable adults; authorizing county attorney administrative subpoena issuance for vulnerable adult banking and financial records; clarifying financial exploitation of vulnerable adult; expanding criminal code theft provisions to include vulnerable adult financial exploitation; requiring a speedy trial in criminal proceedings; authorizing boarding care homes, nursing homes and hospitals to submit electronic reports; defining person; requiring financial institution cooperation, providing for immunity from liability; requiring agency coordination and commissioners of health and public safety under human services commissioner to consult community representatives and requiring agencies guidelines development; establishing a vulnerable adult financial exploitation cause of action; modifying vulnerable adult definition; requiring the commissioner of human services to seek federal funding to design, implement and evaluate the common entry point for reports of suspected maltreatment with a statewide toll-free telephone number and web site-based system
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